WWII – The Events
“The Night of the Broken Glass”
German National Anthem Carlepsmip 12boces
The Holocaust The word holocaust means a sacrificial offering that is completely burned. Jews, mentally disabled, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, communists and other political opponents Estimated = 11 million people were killed including the Jews (6 million)
Dachau
Anne Frank Huis - Amsterdam
redoubt/ Hitler’s suicide?
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
THE US - Response “The Manhattan Project” Began in 1942
The Atomic Bomb Manhattan Project scientists successfully exploded the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki On Aug. 6, 1945, an atomic weapon was exploded about 1,800 feet over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. (Little Boy) 70,000 People Died On August 9, a Trinity-type weapon 1,800 feet above Nagasaki. (Fat Man) 40,000 People Died