1. The Start of WWII
Lecture Two
Chapter 24

2. Hitler Takes More Germany had already expanded, but wanted more:
Why Poland?
Terms: Blitzkrieg, Sitzkrieg, Maginot Line
What was the Allied Response?
Hitler attacked France. What was the outcome?
Hitler attacked Great Britain. What was the outcome?

3. America’s Response to German Aggression:
Why did we not jump into World War II?
Fear of another war.
Depression
Neutrality Acts

4. What we did do: Cash and Carry Loans to Allies Lend-Lease Plan
Convoy escorts
Built Defenses
Supported Stalin and Roosevelt
Atlantic Charter

5. What Brought Us in? Pearl Harbor What? When ? Where ? How?
Lasting Effect?

6. Now What? Europe vs. Pacific Theaters Tojo vs. Hitler What do we know?
Japan’s intentions?
State of Britain?
The Holocaust?

7. The Holocaust (Why the Jews?)
Events leading up to The Final Solution
Centuries of hatred for the Jews
Hitler coming to power—taking out Jews
Kristallnacht
Nov 9-10, 1938
Enforced anti-Jewish laws
Jewish Refugees
Einstein
The St. Louis (1939)
Britain and France

8. Hitler’s Problem No where to send the Jews—anti-immigration
He occupied a lot of territory
He had more people than just the Jews to get rid of.

9. The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem
The Jews must be wiped out.
They need a system:
Ghettos, Camps, Mass Exterminations

10. The Plan
Who to Target?
Where

11. The Plan
How to kill?
Who should oversee the process?

12. Building the Camps How did they build them?
How did they transport the condemned?
When did all this happen?

13. The Numbers: Jews: 6 million Others: 5 million
3 million in Poland (91% of population)
Others: 5 million
Gypies, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the ill, the disabled, political enemies, religious enemies, others.

14. The Camps Some were work camps, others death
Death Camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belcez, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka—All in Poland
The process: Selections, taking of possessions, fate.
Method to the madness: Need for workers, need to dispose of evidence, need to support war effort
Time table: Most deaths in year

15. Liberation
Covered at the End of the War

16. Questions?
Did anyone object?
Others?