Transcript World War II Timeline Assignment

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1. World War II Timeline Assignment
(this was homework)
2. WHII.12a Causes, Major Events and
Leaders of World War II Review
1. WWII Narrative Open To The Last
Page
2. WHII Outcomes of World War II
Review Questions
WWII Narrative Part 4
“The Reconstruction of Germany and Japan”
 WHII.12c Outcomes/Effects of WWII
 Review and Discuss
WHII.12b
Essential Question: Why did the Holocaust occur?
TOTAL SOLDIERS IN WWII
>70,000,000 (70 million)
TOTAL DEATHS IN WWII
>55,000,000(55 million)
Soviet Union
22,000,000
Germany
8,000,000
Japan
2,000,000
European Jews
(Holocaust)
6,000,000
 Jews had long been hated across Europe.
 Hitler’s blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat in WWI
and the subsequent economic hardships.
 Anti-Semitic propaganda was used to spread the
hatred of Jews across Germany (later Europe).
 Pure German’s were the
supreme form of human;
the master race.
 Blond hair
 Blue eyes
 Fair skin
 Blamed Jews for opposing
the master race.
 Argued Jews were keeping
the master race from
ruling the world.
 In 1941 Hitler ordered the destruction of Europe’s
entire Jewish population.
 The Nazis called this program the Final Solution to
the “Jewish question.”
 The Wannsee (VAAN-SAY) Conference set out a
systematic plan for exterminating Jews in
concentration camps.
1933
1935
November 9-10, 1935
Hitler proclaims a one
day boycott against all
Jewish shops.
Nuremburg Laws strip
Jews of their German
citizenship.
Kristallnacht
“The Night of Broken
Glass”
1935-1945
6+ million Jews are killed
in the Holocaust
 Mass death/labor camps in Germany and Poland
were called concentration camps.
 Prisoners were sorted by age, health, and gender.
Families were usually broken apart.
 Poisonous gas chambers disguised as showers were
the most common method of execution.
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 Death of six million “inferior” people-groups:
 Jews, Gypsies, Disabled
 Massive executions
 Four million had been gassed in the death camps.
 Two million had been shot to death or died in the ghetto.
 Ghetto-a section of the city where Jews were required to live
 By April 1945 most of Europe’s Jews had been killed.
Why did the Holocaust occur?
WHII.12b
Essential Question: What other examples of genocide
took place in the twentieth century?
“Thus
for the time being I have sent to the
East only my ‘Death’s Head Units’ with
the orders to kill without pity or mercy all
men, women, and children of Polish race
or language. Only in such a way will we
win the vital space that we need. Who still
talks nowadays about the Armenians?”
-Adolf Hitler justifying his use of genocide in 1939
 1915-1918: First genocide of the 20th Century.
 Over 1,500,000 were killed when the Ottoman
(Turkish) government starved and executed
Armenian Christians for supporting the Western
Allies in World War I.
 After their destruction, the Ottoman Turks totally
demolished any remnants of the Armenian culture.
 Josef Stalin caused a famine in the Ukraine (Collective
Farms?) to starve the Kulaks to death in 1932-1933.
 Over 7,000,000 died.
 Stalin purged the Ukrainian Communist Party when
they asked for food aid for the starving people of the
Ukraine.
 Once the Kulaks as a class were destroyed, Stalin
allowed food distribution to resume inside the Ukraine.
 Seizure of the Cambodian
Government (1975-1979)
 Pol Pot, Communist Leader
 Khmer Rouge, Communists
 Removal of all citizens who
were non-communists in
order to create an agrarian
utopia.
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Professionals
Government Leaders
Religious Leaders
Ethnic Minorities
 Slave Labor
 Millions died in labor “killing
fields”
 Overwork/ exhaustion
 Malnutrition
 Disease
 Purging of the “old society”
 Educated/ Wealthy citizens
 Buddhist monks
 Police, doctors, lawyers
 Teachers
 Ex-Soldiers
 Rwanda in Central Africa is comprised of two main
ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi.
 Beginning on April 6, 1994, and for the next
hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by
Hutu militia using clubs and machetes
 Tutsi rebels from neighboring countries managed
to defeat the Hutus and halt the genocide in July
1994.
 Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia resulting
in civil war.
 The Serbs invaded Croatia to ‘protect’ the Serbian minority.
 After a Serbian victory hundreds of Croatian men were
executed and buried in mass graves.
 From 1992-1995 The Serbs reacted to Bosnia’s declaration of
independence by attacking Sarajevo.
 Serbs began to terrorize Muslims with mass shootings,
 200,000 Muslim civilians were systematically murdered
 WHII.12b Holocaust and Global Genocides
 Finish for homework!
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