Transcript AKS 47: World War II - Brookwood High School

AKS 47:
World War II
Chapter 32 – Pages 925-951
The Holocaust
Who…?
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…were the victims of the Holocaust?
 Non-Aryan
peoples, primarily Jews, but also
Gypsies, Slavs, etc.
The Holocaust
Who…?

…were members of the “master race”?
 Aryans
The signs read:
“Germans! Defend
Yourselves! Do not buy
from Jews!”
The Holocaust
What…?

…were the Nuremberg Laws?
 German
laws depriving Jews of rights to
citizenship & jobs
The Holocaust
What…?

…happened on the
night of November 9,
1938?
 On
Kristallnacht, the
Nazis launched a
violent attack on
Jewish communities all
over Germany
The Holocaust
What…?

…was Hitler’s
“Final Solution”?
 Systematic
killing
of entire groups of
people, particularly
Jews, whom the
Nazis saw as
inferior
The Holocaust
Where…?

…did German Jews try to migrate to find
safety from Nazi terror?
 France,
Britain, USA, & other countries
The Holocaust
Where…?

…were Jews forced to live in Germancontrolled cities?
 In
ghettos – segregated Jewish areas
The Holocaust
Where…?

…were the concentration camps?
 Mainly
in Germany & Poland
The Holocaust
Why…?

…did Hitler believe that Jews & other
“subhumans” had to be exterminated?
 To
protect the purity of the Aryan race
The Holocaust
Why…?

…did the
Germans build
extermination
camps?
 To
carry out mass
murders in huge
gas chambers
The Holocaust
When…?

…did the final stage of the Final Solution
begin?
 Early
1942
The Holocaust
How…?

…did non-Jewish people try to save Jews
from the horrors of Nazism?
 By
hiding Jews in their homes or helping them
escape to neutral countries
 Anne Frank
The Holocaust
How…?

…many Jews died in the Holocaust?
 Approximately
6,000,000
Nuremberg Trials
Nazis put on trial for crimes against
humanity (events of Holocaust)
 Goal was to punish Nazi officials using
a democratic system
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Japanese Internment Camps in the
United States
Japanese-Americans placed in camps
 Why? – feared they were enemies or spies
after bombing at Pearl Harbor
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Tehran Conference
When?

November 28 – December 1, 1943
Tehran Conference
Members Present?
Franklin Roosevelt {USA}
 Winston Churchill {Britain}
 Joseph Stalin {USSR}
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Tehran Conference
Purpose of Meeting?
Coordinate military strategy against
Germany & Japan
 Decide on important issues of post-WWII
era
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Tehran Conference
Purpose of Meeting?
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Coordination of D-Day invasion
Poland’s post-war borders
First discussions about splitting up Germany into
zones of occupation
First discussions of the future United Nations
between Stalin and FDR
*Many issues left for final decisions at later
conferences
Yalta Conference
When?  February 4-11, 1945
Yalta Conference
Members Present?
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Franklin Roosevelt {USA}
Winston Churchill {Britain}
Joseph Stalin {USSR}
Yalta Conference
Purpose of Meeting?

Make final decisions about the end of the
war.
Yalta Conference
What was decided?
Divide Germany into 4 zones controlled by
Allied military forces.
 Germany must pay the USSR.
 Stalin agreed to join war against Japan 90
days after the end of the war in Europe.
 Stalin promised free elections in Eastern
Europe.
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Potsdam
Conference
Members
Present?
THE BIG THREE
Potsdam Conference
Purpose of Meeting?

Clarify agreements from Yalta
Potsdam Conference
What was decided?

Potsdam Declaration
 Unconditional
surrender of Japan
 Japanese disarmament, establishment of
democratic government
 Postwar European borders (especially
Poland)
Formation of the United Nations
The Beginning
Stalin & FDR secretly discussed ideas for
U.N. at Tehran Conference
 1944: Britain, China, USSR, & met in D.C.
& drafted the 1st charter
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Formation of the United Nations
First Meeting
April 1945 in San Francisco
 Delegates from 50 nations worked for 2
months to develop the official charter
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Formation of the United Nations
Details & Purpose
Purpose: peacekeeping organization
designed to protect its members against
aggression
 Permanent Members of Security Council:
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 USA,
Britain, USSR, France, China
Marshall Plan for Europe
Who…?

…proposed the plan?
 U.S.
Secretary of State George Marshall
Marshall Plan for Europe
When…?
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…did he propose the plan?
 1947
Marshall Plan for Europe
What…?

…did he propose the U.S. needed to do?
 Give
aid to needy European countries
 Provide food, machinery, & other materials
to rebuild Western Europe & stop Soviet
expansion
Truman signs Marshall Plan 
MacArthur’s Plan for Japan
Demilitarization
Disbanded Japanese armed forces
 Left Japanese with small police force
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MacArthur’s Plan for Japan
Democratization
Created a gov’t elected by the people
 Set up a constitutional monarchy b/c
Japanese wanted to keep emperor
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MacArthur’s Plan for Japan
Other Reforms
Land ownership was expanded
 Independent labor unions had the right to
form
 Increase participation of workers &
farmers in new democracy
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