Chapter VI America Before and During the Second World War Outline: 1. Jazz age Great Depression ： Roosevelt ’ s “ New Deal ” social security.save democracy the capitalist system. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

:Nazis take Czechoslovakia, Poland. Denmark and Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Greece,Yugoslavia, Romania United States proclaims neutrality. Nazis : euthanasia on sick, disabled in Germany Evacuation from Dunkirk Battle of Britain 1941:Japanese bomb on Pearl Harbor United States and Britain declare war on Japan. Germany war on the United States Battle of Stalingrad

April 30, 1945 – Hitler –suicide May 8, 1945 – V-E(Victory in Europe) Day Aug 6, First atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Aug 9, 1945 –Second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Sept 2, 1945 –V-J Day Anti-fascist war Deaths:52,199,262

Why are Jews prosecuted? 1. Some Jews were successful and held powerful positions in Austria and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s while the world was suffering in the Great Depression,war reparations 赔款 for World War I. 2. Successful Jews were envied and blamed for "taking German jobs." 3.During World War I, communism was on the rise.

4.Some Germans held to the belief that "Jewish bankers" were responsible for the Treaty of Versailles because they stopped funding WWI. 5.The Balfour Declaration of 1917 supposedly proves that Jews betrayed Germany in World War I. the Zionist 支持或拥护犹太人复国运动者 Jewish elite bartered with England and promised to bring the United States into the war in exchange for Palestine.

6.Jewish communities tend have a very strong group collective mindset. They differentiated themselves from other Germans. 7. Some say Hitler and the Nazis were simply opportunistic demagogues. Inciting hatred of the Jews was the means to an end. The Nazis used hatred of the Jews to unify the German people and create a new German empire. Anti-semitism has been rife throughout European history.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) now 26 member states. The U.S.-led military alliance,created in 1949 as a result of the Soviet blockade of Berlin. the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg 卢森堡公国, Greece, Turkey, West Germany, Spain. the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Bulgaria 保加利亚, Estonia 爱沙尼亚, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

Warsaw Pact To retaliate against the formation of NATO, in 1955 the Communist countries form the now- defunct Warsaw Pact,: the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, and Romania. The Warsaw Pact ended in 1991, with the fall of Communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

August 9th,1941:Atlantic Charter Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin----Teheran : 1944-second European battlefield: Normandy D-Day landings attack on the south of France 1945 –- Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference:redivision of Europe 1941:the founding of the United Nations