Vocab List 28 P 276 CH 11 -Concentration Camp -Extermination Camp -Nuremberg Laws (P 276) -Gestapo (P 277) -Buchenwald (P280) -Auschwitz (P 281)
The Holocaust & Other Consequences World War II The Holocaust & Other Consequences
Why did Germany hate Jews? Hitler convinced the German people that the Jews were the source of its problems: After WW1 many German banks & stores were Jewish owned Fascists hated Communists, and both Karl Marx & Leon Trotsky were Jewish Hitler looked at jews as both cause of Capitalism & Communism. + Jews tended to live in isolated communities and spoke Yiddish to one another.
I. Big Picture :’( Nazis killed 6 million Jews Nazis killed 5 million others People in opposition Gypsies Homosexuals Slavic people
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II. How it happened: A) The World was anti-semetic - Millions of Jews were trapped in Nazi Europe because no other country would accept them B) Concentration Camps healthy individuals worked as slaves until died of exhaustion Extermination Camps - where children, elderly and women were executed in gas chambers and bodies then cremated 12,000 killed per day 3,000,000 jews killed in Poland alone
WARNING!!! YOU MAY STEP OUT OF THE CLASS FOR A BRIEF MOMENT IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE GRAPHIC PICTURES:
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III. America the best? A) Worldview of American: Europeans seen as Racist Fascists Americans seen as tolerant, diverse and equal Will start the Civil Rights Movement B) However-- not so tolerant. Executive Order 9066 Japanese Americans - suffered horrible racism and violation of civil liberties in our history 100,000 Japanese (many US Citizens) sent to Internment Camps for 2 years
IV. Worldwide Consequences of WWII Nazis / Japanese tried for War Crimes Divided Germany into East and West Germany Dollar replaced Pound in international currency World Bank - created to rebuild Europe + help developing countries United Nations created to Ensure Peace 5 Permanent Members of Security Council= Russia, France, USA, GB, China USA became THE leader in new Global Capitalist Order USA and USSR (Russia) only countries powerful enough to exert influence around the world. Here comes…. the Cold War….