Transcript World War II - Net Start Class

Background Information
WORLD WAR II
Nationalism
 regarded as a condition of loyalty to one's
own nation and its interests
Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
 Hitler’s political philosophy
 Written while in prison
 1923
 Anti-Semitism – Jewish
scapegoats
 German expansion –
blames the Treaty of
Versailles for lost land
 Critics- never taken
seriously
 Warnings signs were
overlooked
July 14, 1933
 Creation of the Nazi Party
 Swastika
The Third Reich
 Translation –
Third Empire
 "Thousand Year"
Empire
Nuremberg Laws
 Laws endorsed by the Nazi Party
 Nuremberg, Germany in 1933 and 1935
 Severe restrictions on German Jews
 Aryan German race
 Holocaust
 The undesirable / sub-human
Yellow Star of David
 Six pointed star
 Jewish religious symbol
 Identification
Kristallnacht
 November 10,
1938
 Widespread
violence
 “Night of
broken glass”
Early Acts of Discrimination
against Jews in Germany
 Book burnings
 Boycott of Jewish owned
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businesses
Professors expelled from
universities
April 7, 1933
Jews barred from German civil
service.
September 15, 1935
Nuremberg Laws ended
German citizenship for Jews.
September 21, 1935
Jewish doctors forced to resign
from private hospitals by
Nuremberg Laws.
 November 16, 1937
Jews could obtain passports
for travel outside of Germany
only in special cases.
 July 22, 1938
Effective January 1, 1939 in
Germany, all Jews forced to
carry special identification
cards.
 November 15, 1938
German schools expelled all
Jews.
 November 28, 1939
German Jews restricted by
curfew
Background Information
WORLD WAR II
Incident that began WWII
 Invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.
 First military engagement in the European
theater
 September 3, 1939 – declaration of war
The Final Solution
 1942
 Persecute, deport, exterminate
Holocaust
 Sacrifice by fire; burnt offerings
 Mass murder of millions
Jewish Deaths in WWII
 200,000 surviving Jews
 About 5.8 million Jews
Concentration Camps
 Starts in Germany
 Designed as “work
camps”
 Uniforms
 Ammunition factories
 Other countries that
had Concentration
Camps
Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941
 Early on the morning
of Sunday, December
7, 1941
 President Franklin D.
Roosevelt
 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
 Surprise of Attack
The Axis Powers of WWII
 Germany
 Italy
 Japan
leader: Hitler
leader: Mussolini
leader: Hirohito
Allied Countries
 In World War II (1939-1945), the Allied
Powers, included:
 Britain
 United States
 Soviet Union
leader: Churchill
leader: Roosevelt
leader: Stalin
Manhattan Project
 Efforts to build an atomic weapon
 New York's Columbia University in Manhattan
 “Fat Man” – Nagasaki, Japan
 “Little Boy” –Hiroshima, Japan
 End of WWII
D-Day
 June 6, 1944
 150,000
Allied soldiers
 Normandy, France
 Refers to any day of
action or decision
WWII ends in Europe
 Unconditional surrender
 May 8, 1945
 V-E Day –
Victory over Europe
WWII ends in Japan
 August 15, 1945
 V-J Day –
Victory over Japan
What happened to Hitler at the
end of the war?
 April 30
 Kills self to avoid Allied
forces
Genocide
 The systematic annihilation of a group of
people
 (nation, ethnicity, race, religion)
Anne Frank
 Anne Frank's diaries
 Documents of human strength in the face of
unrestrained oppression