Transcript Goal10Part2 - ashtonushistory

Goal 10 Part 2
Holocaust / American Involvement in
WWII
April 7, 1933
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Hitler takes control of Nazi Party
Racial Purification begins
Holocaust: the systematic killing of 11 million
non-Aryans (6 million Jews)
Why Jews? (anti-Semitism=prejudice against
Jews)
(1) Scapegoat for blame of WWI
(2) Highly successful during Great Depression
(jealousy)
Nuremburg Laws
The lack of a clear
legal method of
defining who was Jewish allowed some Jews to
escape some forms of discrimination aimed
at them by the Nazi Party
- These Nuremburg Laws made it easier for SS
troopers to “INSTANTLY identify” who was
Jewish and allowed them to strip them of
their rights / led to violence and mistreatment
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Kristallnacht
“The spark that started the Holocaust”
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November 9-10, 1938
“Night of Broken Glass”
Nazi Storm troopers attacked Jewish homes,
businesses and synagogues across Germany
and Austria with sledgehammers
100 Jews were killed, 30,000 were arrested
and sent to concentration camps
Jews were blamed for the destruction
The St. Louis May 13, 1939
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German liner that housed Jews
St. Louis: German ocean liner with 943 passengers
from Hamburg, Germany to Havana Cuba
Problem: Cuban political strife
FDR’s Response: job competition???? – Not
allowed to emigrate into America = BACK TO
EUROPE!?!
Hitler’s FINAL solution 1939
Genocide: a deliberate and systematic killing of
an entire population (Jewish culture) – sometimes
shot on spot
 “DEATH TRAINS” – SS officers couldn't reach
some Jewish communities… Jews were herded in
like cattle to ghettos or even worse…..
Concentration camps / labor camps
(Ex. Auschwitz) – housed the “undesirables”
*Ghettos: - segregated Jewish areas in Poland
 Final Stage (1942): mass extermination / Poison
gassing
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Tripartite Pact
(AXIS POWERS)
Italy (Mussolini) Japan (Tojo) and
Germany (Hitler) signed this treaty…
forming the Axis Powers
(Extension of the Rome-Berlin Axis)
 Main goal: keep U.S. out of war!
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FDR’s THIRD TERM *(1st President)
and WON reelection in 1940
FDR terms: 1932, 1936, 1940, and
(4th)in 1944 – death in 1945
“The Great Arsenal of Democracy”
Phrase coined by FDR during WWII in 1940
(American aid to Britain and other allied forces against Germany)
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*****PROVISIONS OF THE NEUTRALITY ACTS*******
(1) Cash and Carry** (1939)- come and get it! (bring money!)
Problem: Britain ran out of money! (for this purpose)
(2) Lend Lease Act ** (1941)
- lend or lease weapons to defeat Germany to ANY country that
is vital to the U.S.
- RESOURCES GO TO: Stalin / Soviet Union & Churchill / Britain
FDR Plans for War
The Atlantic Charter
FDR and Churchill / U.S. and Britain form an
ALLIANCE (ex. cooperation, freedom of the
seas = help!)
*Getting America AWAY from Neutrality!!!
WHO IS UPSET (THE MOST) WITH FDR’s
PROPOSAL
TO GO TO WAR???
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- Atlantic Charter-
ATLANTIC CHARTER
Focus: Churchill (Br.) and
FDR (U.S.) are
reaching an agreement
in order to attempt to
break the shackles of
Europe under German
control
- World Liberty guides
the way!
Japan ATTACKS the U.S.
Japanese ambitions in the Pacific
 Hideki Tojo – after invading MANCHURIA –
he invades China (imperialism), Vietnam,
Cambodia, Laos
 American reaction = HATES the Japanese
AGGRESSION
Cuts off oil supplies! (oil embargo)
So…..
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks America at Pearl Harbor at Oahu,
HAWAII
 American fatality = 2,400
 American wounded = 1,200
*Date of Pearl Harbor Attack =
December 7, 1941 (a date that will live in infamy)
T.Q. = What is the event that brought America into
WWII?
PEARL HARBOR!!!!!!!!!
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U.S. Paper
War is Declared
PEARL HARBOR FOOTAGE
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http://www.encyclomedia.com/videopearl_harbor.html
Analyze the effects of these early events of WWII
and how they changed the outcome of warfare
(Significance – Legacy)
1. Neutrality Acts
2. Quarantine Speech
3. Good Neighbor Policy
4. Munich Agreement / Appeasement
5. Nonaggression Pact
6. Blitzkrieg in Poland
7. Fall of France
8. Battle of Britain
9. Tripartite Pact
10. Great Arsenal of Democracy
11. Cash and Carry
12. Lend Lease Act
13. Atlantic Charter
14. Attack at Pearl Harbor