LG#4 World War II

Need a review of the Treaty of Versailles before beginning the WWII learning guide? View the 2 minute video below by The History Channel. If the embed is not working, access the video through History.com using the link below the video.

Link to Treaty of Versailles Video

Lesson #1: To better understand how war again erupted in Europe and complete Activity #1, question #2 in your learning guide, view the lesson below.

Watch the clip Hitler, The Sudetenland and Appeasement when viewing this lesson.

If you wish to learn more about Adolf Hitler and his rise to power, view the National Geographic documentary titled Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler - The Menace, embedded below. As you view, consider the following questions. .

• Had the terms of the Treaty of Versailles actually been enforced, could Hitler’s rise to power have been stopped or was the Treaty flawed from the very beginning?

• Were the Treaty of Versailles and the rise of Hitler fatally linked or were they two separate elements that came together in a horrible example of historical kismet? (kismet = fate or destiny)

• Did the Treaty of Versailles make World War II inevitable or was the arrival of a key individual like Hitler critical for this chain of events to occur?

To complete Activity #1, question #3 of your WWII LG, view the images below. Determine what

each photo depicts and explain why it is a cause of WWII (C2.3)

To complete Activity #1, question #5 of your WWII LG, listen to the file below titled "Hitler Youth Rally Speech, 1935".

To learn about the role(s) Canada played in WWII and complete Activity #2 in your learning guide, view the video titled Canada and WWII.

To complete Activity #2, Question #1 in your WWII learning guide, listen to the audio file "Carnage on the Beaches of Dieppe, 1942" from the CBC's Radio Archives, linked below.

Audio File "Carnage on the Beaches of Dieppe"

To complete Activity #2, Question #2 in your WWII learning guide, read the infographic titled "D-Day" and then listen to the audio file "The Naval Attack at Normandy on D-Day" from the CBC's Radio Archives, linked beneath the infographic. Afterward, answer the critical thinking questions in your learning guide.

Audio File: The Naval Attack at Normandy on D-Day

To complete Activity #2, Question #3, listen to the audio file below on the Battle of Otterlo, then answer the critical thinking question in your learning guide.

Audio File: Canadians Repel Germans at Otterlo

To complete Activity #3, screen the following short films or clips from World War II. Each film's title/date/information is directly above it.

British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Ronnie The Bren Gun Girl

He Plants For Victory (1941) (NFB)

Canadian Animations from WWII, 1941-42

Canadian Logging Industry Prepares Timber for War Effort, 1943

Canadian Women Lead World In Making Munitions, 1943

Canadian Navy Entertainment Division, 1943

To complete Activity #4 in your learning guide, learn more about the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour and subsequent treatment of Japanese Canadians during World War II, listen to and view the media files below.

Lesson #3: To better understand Hitler's "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem", view the lesson below. Fill in the accompanying worksheet attached at the bottom of this page if desired. This lesson will provide you with background information for Activity #5 - Canada and the Holocaust in your WWII LG.

To learn more about the research and development project that was led by the United States (supported by the United Kingdom and Canada) that resulted in the production of the first atomic bombs during WWII. The creation and detonation of the world's first nuclear weapons was one of the main causes of the Cold War.

To complete the lesson, access the PowerPoint below titled "Introduction to The Manhattan Project". Interested and want to know more? After viewing the lesson, you may choose to watch the documentary created for The History Channel's Modern Marvels series called "The Manhattan Project", embedded below.

To complete Activity #5, listen to the audio files below titled "On Buchenwald" and "This Country of Unspeakable Evil". In addition, watch the short video "British Troops Enter Belsen". All of these were broadcast in 1945.

Audio File: On Buchenwald by Edward Ward

Audio File: On This Country of Unspeakable Evil by Matthew Halton