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WWII and the Holocaust
8th Grade Ga Studies
Unit 6
Standard 9 a-d
WORLD WAR II
HOW DID WE END UP IN WORLD
WAR AGAIN?
THE STEPS TO WAR:
1. THE GREAT DEPRESSION - AMERICA WAS NOT THE ONLY
DEPRESSED NATION IN THE 1930’S. THE GREAT DEPRESSION
WAS WORLD WIDE. LIKE AMERICANS, OTHER COUNTRIES
TURNED TO THEIR GOVERNMENTS FOR HELP. WHEN SOME
GOVERNMENTS WERE UNABLE TO HELP, THEY TURNED TO
THE PROMISES OF MEN WHO SAID THEY HAD THE ANSWERS
THESE MEN WERE DICTATORS.
Axis Powers
THE GERMANS’ SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TOOK
THEM TO A MADMAN NAMED ADOLF HITLER.
THE ITALIANS TURNED TO
THIS MAN, BENITO MUSSOLINI.
JAPAN WAS USED TO LIFE UNDER STRICT
RULE BY AN EMPEROR. HIS NAME WAS
HIROHITO.
Allied Powers
Russia, USA, Great Britain
FDR, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill
Harry Truman, Stalin and Churchill
US Involvement
• Isolationism: US belief/strategy to keep to
itself- not involve itself in world issues and
affairs.
• US saw it as the “European War”
• Stayed out of WWII for quite awhile- (until the
bombing at Pearl Harbor)
Lend Lease Act
• FDR and Congress passed act to be able to lend
war materials to countries that were important to
our interests. (The Allied Powers)
• In return we built military bases on their lands
Attack on Pearl Harbor
• December 7, 1941
• Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• Brought US into the war- became part of the
ALLIES
• Over 2,300 killed and 19 ships destroyed
• “A date which will live in infamy”---FDR
Georgia and World War II
1940-still in depression, most still work on farms
War Effort:
• 1- 300,000 Servicemen/women (7,000 died)
• 2-Manufacturing/War Supplies
• 3-Military Training Bases
• 4-Crops and Supplies
• 5-Support from political leaders
Economy Improves!
Products moved by Trains and Ships
Bell Aircraft Company
• Marietta, GA 1943
• Largest aircraft assembly plant in world
• Built B-29 bombers (660 of them)
• Now Lockheed Martin
Liberty Ships
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Brunswick and Savannah
187 built
Employed men and WOMEN
Quickly built, assembly line
“throwaways”, “ugly ducklings”
Cargo ships- supplies, men, weapons
Military Bases
GA and Texas had the most training
facilities
• Camp Stewart(anit-aircraft unit/live
ammunition)
• Camp Gordon (largest
communication center)
• Fort Benning (largest infantry
training base)
• Warner Robbins (Air Force)
• Southern Fields (German POW
camp)
Carl Vinson
(longest serving Member of the US House of Rep.)
-created the Army Air Corp. which
would become the U.S. Air Force.
-AKA “Father of the Two Ocean Navy”
Richard Russell
(Governor and US Senator)
-Built US fighting force up from
174,000 in 1939 to 6,000,000 in
1945.
They both spearheaded efforts to bring active
military training bases to Georgia which in turn
created jobs for Georgians.
Holocaust (“the burning”)
• Hitler’s answer to Germany’s “Jewish
Problem”
• Genocide: systematic killing of a people group
• 6million killed (Jews, Catholics, homosexuals,
gypsies, etc…)
• Victims sent to Concentration Camps (work
camps) or Death Camps
Hell's Gate
The main entrance to Birkenau viewed from the unloading ramp.
Inside the collapsed roof of Krematorium II at Birkenau, blown up by the Nazis before the
evacuation of the camp. Outside, is a path from the women's camp, one barracks of which can
be seen beyond the trees. Krematoria II and III were the largest gasssing and cremation facilitie
in the entire Nazi universe. They were the very heart of what survivor/author Erik Kulka calls
"The Death Factory".
Shoes
Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one day's collection at
the peak of the gassings, about twenty five thousand pairs.
A camp mortuary was used as the gassing room of Crematorium I. Victims entered through
the far door. Horizontal and vertical discolorizations are evidence of interior walls having
once been in place. To this day, traces of poison gas precipitate can be detected by analysis
of concrete samples
Two of the three double-muffle furnaces of Crematorium I. The third is no longer in place. At left
are the remnants of charging trolleys, including the corpse caddies. Trolley track is visible in the
foreground.
The fence line to the right of the main gate. The blocks are visible beyond the fence. Short
concrete posts on each side of the primary fence mark the warning line. Wire strung along the
posts gave rise to the prisoners' idea of a triple fence line. Guards and dogs patrolled the
perimeter on the gravel walkway between the runs of electrified barbed wire.
PRISONER’S LATRINE
Ash Pool at Crematorium II
Ash Pool at Crematorium II
At Auschwitz-Birkenau there were ash pools near crematoria
II,III,IV,and V which were used to dispose of the human ashes.
Frieda Radasky holds the arm of her husband, Solomon Radasky, next to the tattoo of
his Auschwitz registration number, 128232. The numerals add up to 18 which forms the
word "life" in Hebrew. Mr. Radasky worked near the crematoria hauling sand to spread
over the ashes of the dead.
The Auschwitz numbers ran from 1 to over 202,000. Those selected for death were not
registered in the camp and did not receive numbers.
PRISONER UNIFORM
A member of Einsatzgruppe D prepares to
shoot a Ukrainian Jew,
who is forced to kneel before a mass grave
full of other victims
Photo of wounds left by a medical experiment.
The victim had been
burned with phosphorous so that medicaments
could be tested
Holocaust in Georgia
• Many Holocaust victims came to Georgia
• Governor Harris created the Commission on
the Holocaust to educate Georgians
FDR
• Visited GA often
• Warm Springs (“The Little White House)
• Swam in the springs to help with his disease
(polio)]
• Respected by Georgian’s b/c of New Deal
• Died at Warm Springs after a stroke in April
1945
How did Georgia
contribute to
WWII?