Transcript Racism, Religion and the Holocaust

Racism, Religion and the
Holocaust
Racism, Prejudice and Discrimination?
We will be:
 Examining the nature of racism,
the origins of anti-Semitism and
the Apartheid system in South
Africa.
You will be able to:
 Explain the meaning of the
terms: prejudice and
discrimination.
 Describe life under the
apartheid system
The Slave Trade
We will be :
 Looking at the history of black
African Americans and the life
of a slave
You will be able to:
 Explain how Africans were
taken to America
 Describe the condition they
existed in
 Explain the attitude of people at
the time to slaves
The United States of America
We will be:
 Examining the movement
known and the Ku Klux Klan
You will be able to:
 Describe the beliefs and values
of the KKK
 Describe the contribution and
influence of Dr Martin Luther
King
 Explain the aim of the Civil
Rights Movement
Genocide
You will be:

Examining the meaning of the
term genocide and looking at
various examples
You will be able to:
 Explain the meaning of the term
genocide
 Give an example of a genocide
in the 20th century
 Explain the circumstance which
led to the Rwandan genocide
Does Religion Encourage Hatred?
We will be:

Examining the possible link
between religion and hatred
You will be able to:
 State the main ideas of Jesus’
teachings
 Explain what is meant by the
Crusades and their purpose
 Give examples of religion being
a positive influence
The Cathars
You will be:
 Looking at a religious group
persecuted by the Catholic
Church known as the Cathars
You will be able to:
 Explain what is meant by
heresy and describe the action
taken by the Christian church
against heretics
 Give two examples of how
religion has created conflict
The Jewish Holocaust
You will be looking at:
 The attempts of the Nazis to
wipe out the Jews in Europe
during WW2
You will be able to:
 Explain the meaning of
Holocaust and what it refers to
 Describe how the rise of anti
Semitism in Germany affected
the Jews
 Explain how the Jews felt at this
time
Nazi Propaganda
We will be:
 Looking at how the Nazis used
propaganda to influence the
attitudes of non Jews
 Discussing the effects of
propaganda on the Jews
You will be able to:
 Explain what is meant by
propaganda
 Explain how Nazi propaganda
influenced the people of
Germany
 Explain how Jews were
depicted by propaganda
Life in the Ghetto
We will be:
 Examining what life was like for
Jews in the ghettos
You will be able to:
 Explain the purpose of the
ghettos
 Describe what life was like for
Jews in the ghettos
 Provide examples of how Jews
tried to make life as good and
as normal as possible
The Final Solution
You will be:
 Learning about what Hitler and
the Nazis called the Final
Solution to the Jewish question
You will be able to:
 Explain what is meant by the
Final Solution
 Explain the purpose of the
camps built in Poland
 Explain how the Jews were
being disposed of before the
Final Solution
Death Camps
We will be:
 Looking at the experiences of
Jews sent to Auschwitz and the
other purpose built death
camps
You will be able to:
 Describe what it was like for
Jews who lived in the camps
 State how you think that this
terrible brutality would affect a
person’s belief in God
 Give some reasons as to why
such evil exists
Death Marches
You will be:
 Looking at the efforts of the
Nazis to continue with their plan
of extermination as the war was
coming to an end
You will be able:
 Explain what the death
marchers were
 Explain what the Nazis wanted
to achieve with the death
marches
 Explain how the Jews would
have felt
Liberation (1945)
We will be:
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Looking at what the allies found
when they liberated the camps in
1945 and the attempts of the Nazis
to hide the atrocities
You will be able to:
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Describe the scene that the allies
were met with when they entered
the camps
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Explain how local people were
exposed to the horrors of the
camps and the role they were given
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Explain who would have had
feelings of guilt
The Aftermath
We will be:
 Looking at the formation of the
state of Israel and the conflict
that has arisen from this
You will be able to:
 Explain why and when the state
of Israel was formed
 Explain attitudes of Arabs and
Jews to the state of Israel
 Explain what Yad Vashem is
and its role in keeping the
memory of the Holocaust alive