1. A History of the United States
The American Promise
A History of the United States
CHAPTER 25 Part 1
The United States and the Second World War,

2. Personal Responsibility?. . .
“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn’t speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was Protestant. Then they came for me…and by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
-Reverend Martin Niemoller, a German Protestant minister that survived the Holocaust in the Dachau concentration camp.

3. It was horrible in Germany beginning in the 30’s…
It was horrible in Germany beginning in the 30’s….so, HOW DID THEY…GERMANY….’GET THERE’?…..to the horrible treatment of Jews, the Holocaust, etc…… Lets start with the League of Nations….

4. Peacetime Dilemmas
Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation 1. Seeking a balance between domestic and international priorities 2. League of Nations- keep peace? 3. Aggression in Germany/Japan 4. Many leave the League

5. Moderating isolationism
-How to support victims of aggression?
-”quarantine” aggressor nations?
- “It’s a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and find no one there” -Roosevelt.

6. Time to avenge Versailles Treaty…
Complete breakdown of democracy in Germany b/t
Germany Jewry isolated from German society
Hitler’s campaign/Germany’s savior

7. The Nazi Storm begins….1933 Weimar republic and rise of Nazi Germany
Changes begin - Hitler
now Chancellor
CHANGES SEEN LITERALLY
OVERNIGHT

8. “Action against the Un-German Spirit”
Book burning

9. “Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.”

10. “Jews Are Our Misfortune”

11. Beginnings of The Nazi State…
New laws on a daily basis
Health services
Education
Non-Jewish Germans began to feel effects of the anti-Jewish legislation

12. Hitler’s “master race”
Who was Hitler against?
Not only ‘against’ Jews
Jews, Gypsies, Polish citizens, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, the handicapped, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious dissidents within Germany itself…
Sought a “master race”

13. "The German Bearing
The German Performance display
The Nordic Racial Heritage"

14. Racial examinations

16. Kristallnacht, literally, "Night of Crystal," is often referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass."

18. After Kristallnacht
- KRISTALLNACHT Led to bold steps in the Nazi's plan:
-No Jews in schools OR businesses
-Jewish housing/ghettos created
-possessions taken
-Many other new laws leading to the complete "elimination" of Jews…and their religious beliefs

19. Meanwhile….
Under the spell of isolationism, Americans passively watched Hitler’s relentless campaign to dominate Europe;
STORIES WERE TOO BAD TO BE TRUE/EXAGGERATED