The Holocaust

Persecution Begins Nuremberg Laws –Stripped of property, jobs, citizenship –Forced to wear Star of David

Persecution Begins Kristallnacht –Attack Jewish homes, synagogues, businesses

Persecution Begins Refugees –France, Britain, and U.S. take limited number –The St. Louis Denied entry into Us

Hitler’s Final Solution SS rounded up groups & shot on sight Forced relocation to ghettos Concentration camps

The Final Stage Mass Extermination –Death camps could kill 12,000 per day –Usually gassed and cremated

Prisoners at forced labor under SS guard in an armaments factory. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1943.

Victim of Nazi medical experiment immersed in freezing water at Dachau concentration camp. SS doctor Sigmund Rascher oversees the experiment. Germany, 1942.

Suitcases that belonged to people deported to the Auschwitz camp. This photograph was taken after Soviet forces liberated the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.

Corpses found when U.S. troops liberated the Gusen camp, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, after May 12, 1945.

African American soldiers escort German civilians through a site where camp prisoners were massacred during a death march from Buchenwald. Such tours forced Germans to recognize the crimes committed by the SS. Near Nammering, Germany, 1945

America Moves Toward War Section 24*4

U.S. Musters Its Forces FDR created “Cash & Carry” policy 1939 Selective Service & Training Act FDR wins 3 rd term in 1940

“Arsenal of Democracy” Lend-Lease Act- March 1941 –Lend supplies to nations whose defense is vital to the U.S. Hitler invaded USSR- June 1941 –U.S. sends supplies and aid

FDR Plans for War Atlantic Charter –FDR and Churchill –Agree on Collective Security Disarmament Self-Determination –Basis for United Nations

Japan Attacks the U.S. U.S. oil embargo hurts Japanese ambitions in Pacific Dec. 6, Japan rejects U.S. peace offer

Japan Attacks the U.S. Pearl Harbor –Dec. 7, 1941 –More devastation than WWI –Push U.S. needed to declare war