Transcript The Braceros Program

Chapter 25, last part
Persecution in Germany
• “Aryans” were superior to Middle Eastern
peoples. Goal: get rid of all Jews
• Europeans began to use the term antiSemitism, or hatred towards Jews
• The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s systematic
murder of European Jews. In all, some 6
million Jews would lose their lives.
Nuremburg Laws
• Stripped citizenship
• Made Nazi controlled newspapers
• Outlawed marriage between Jews and
non-Jews
The night that started the formation of the Holocaust is
called Kristallnacht. It happened on November 9th, 1938
and it was when Nazis troopers attacked Jews in Germany
and Austria. Thousands were arrested and shipped to
concentration camps. “Broken Glass.”
Hitler’s Police
• The SS guarded the concentration camps, or places
where political prisoners are confined under harsh
conditions. Nazi camps undesirables—mainly Jews, but
also Communists, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Gypsies, and the homeless.
• Nazi plan at the Wannsee Conference was to
commit genocide, or the deliberate destruction
of an entire ethnic or cultural group, against the
Jewish people
• Auschwitz and Majdanek were biggest death
camps
Treblinka
• LINK:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.p
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War-Refugee Board
• Put together to try to help people
threatened by the Nazis.
• Ended up saving the lives of 200,000.
• Horrified by the German death camps, the
Allies conducted the Nuremburg Trials in
November 1945.
• They charged a number of Nazi leaders with
crimes against peace, crimes against
humanity, and war crimes.
• You are responsible for your own actions
Medical experiments at Auschwitz
• Josef Mengele
• injected chemicals into women's uteruses
• Twins- Actual set that survived his
experiments
• dwarfs
The Japan Advance
After Pearl Harbor Japan bombed Wake
Island, Guam, and captured American and
Filipino soldiers at a US military base
Soldiers were forced to walk 60 miles with
no food or water
Many were executed for going to slow. This
became known as the Bataan Death
March
Allied Victories
• The Battle of the Midway was an
American/Jap battle in the middle of the
Pacific Ocean
• It was fought by planes over fleets
• While Japs planes were refueling the US
sank four fleets and knocked down 250
planes
• Island Hopping- a military strategy of
selectively attacking specific enemy-held
islands and bypassing others
Battle of Iwo Jima
• Small island off the
coast of Japan
• Lots of tunnels and
caves
• For 74 days the
United States
bombed it
• The Marines came
in and captured it in
one month
Battle of Okinawa
• 100,000 Japs vs 180,000 Americans
• Japan flew Kamikaze attacks (Banzai)
• US lost 50,000/Japs 93,000 US took
island
The Manhattan Project- the bomb
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4 alternative choices
1.) fight in Japan
2.) a naval blockade
3.) drop it on an empty island
4.) lower demands upon Japs
Bombs where dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki and Japan surrendered
African American War Treatment
• The Pittsburgh Courier started the Double
V campaign for racial equality
• V for victory in the war and at home
Mexican Americans
• The Braceros Program was a program that
provided for transportation, food, shelter, and
medical care to thousands of Mexican
Americans
• Zoot Suits became popular
• Over 100,000 Japanese Americans were
interned or confined in camps in remote
area from the coast.