WORLD WAR II The Holocaust
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WORLD WAR II
The Holocaust
K-W-L CHART
What I Know
What I Want to
Know
What I Learned
GREAT DEPRESSION
Severe
worldwide economic
depression
Began in 1929 with the US stock
market crash
Ended around the early 1940’s
Germany devastated by
depression
Large amounts of unemployment
US stopped paying loans to help rebuild
economy
1933 Nazi Party formed
HATE VIOLENCE PYRAMID
Individual &/or Community
Murder
Arson
Rape
Terrorism
Assault
Vandalism
Threats
Desecration
Harassment
Lynching
Genocide
Deliberate, systematic
extermination of an
entire people
Violence
Discrimination
Harassment
Social Exclusion
Discrimination of Employment, Education, &
Housing
Prejudice & Bigotry
Scapegoating Name-calling
Ridicule
Social Avoidance
Epithets
De-humanization
Acts of Bias
Stereotyping
Jokes
Rumors
Insensitive remarks
Justify bias by seeking out like-minded people
Accept negative information & ignoring the positive info
NAZI PARTY
National Socialists German Workers Party
Formed in 1919. In power to 1945
Led by Adolf Hitler
supported the "racial purity of the German people"
claimed itself as the protector of Germany from Jewish
influence and corruption
persecuted those they perceived as either race enemies
included Jews, Slavs, Roma (gypsies), Communists,
homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled,
and others
WORLD WAR II
1939 – 1945
• Two
groups: Allies and Axis
• Germany wanted to establish a large empire
• Japan attacks US naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941
• 4 days later Germany declares war on US
• US enters WW II
• German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942
turned the tide of the war
• Germany surrendered to the Allies causing the fall of
Nazi Germany, and the death of Adolf Hitler.
GERMAN EXPANSION
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?Me
diaId=3372
HOLOCAUST
Means “the destruction”
6 million European Jews died
Genocide: extermination of a national, racial,
political, or cultural group
Concentration camps: inmates used to do slave labor
until they died of exhaustion or disease
ELIE WIESEL
Author of Night
Night is a memoir of his experience during World War
II (1944)
OPRAH INTERVIEW PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KugVjbq6Si8