1. Where were Vikings from?
Warm-Up Friday 2/21/14
Where were Vikings from?

2. Who Were the Vikings?
The Vikings, or Norse, were a phenomenal race of Scandinavian warriors who raided Northern Europe, Eastern Asia, and Eastern North America. The exploits of the Norwegian vikings lead them west to settle into Iceland in 860 and later to colonize Greenland about a hundred years later. The Swedish Vikings set out across the Baltic Sea into Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia. By the end of the first millennium the Vikings reached North America five hundred years before Columbus.
Vikings were not just pirates and warriors but also traders and colonists.
The word Viking means one who lurks in a “Vik” or bay, in effect, a pirate.
The word “Viking” also describes a whole new age in Europe between about the mid 700 to 1150 AD. This was a period of raiding as well as creating far trade networks of settlements by Scandinavians.
Vikings were comprised of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish decent.

3. The Plague Bubonic Plague 1300s “Black Death”
Began in Asia, traveled trade routes
Spread throughout Europe in four years
Killed 25 million Europeans, many more millions in Asia and North Africa

4. He began the Protestant Reformation.
He was an absolute ruler in France who liked to wear high heels to make him appear taller.
This King of England had two divorces, beheaded two of his wives and one wife died of natural causes. He also helped bring about the English Reformation.
She got the nickname “Bloody Mary” because she killed so many Protestants when she was queen.
He took over the French government with the intentions of getting rid of bad leaders. He became a bad leader and was guillotined.
He was a brilliant military general and the 1st emperor of France. He was also pretty short.
He began the Protestant Reformation.
He forced a form of Communism in Russia that resulted in millions dying from famine.
He was elected to power in His policies brought about WWII and the Holocaust.
He published The Communist Manifesto and his socialist writings would get him expelled from Germany and France.
Former prime minister of Great Britain. He helped defeat the Axis powers during WWII.
A “Renaissance Man” and worked as a painter, sculptor and inventor. Most known for the Mona Lisa.
She enjoyed many of Shakespeare's plays and became queen at age 25. She never married .
King Louie XIV
King Henry VIII
Queen Mary Tudor
Martin Luther
Maximillen de Rospierre
Napoleon Bonaparte
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Karl Marx
Winston Churchill
Queen Elizabeth I
Leonardo da Vinci

5. THE WESTERN FRONT
Troops battling in France dug trenches to protect themselves
These trenches became very complex with connecting trenches between them and barbwire in front
This created two lines with an area in-between known as “no-man’s land”
Why was it called “no-man’s land”?
the machine gun

10. Holocaust
Genocide- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
The Holocaust was a genocide because the goal was to wipe out the entire Jewish Race.

11. Holocaust
Forced Jews to work in concentration camps which turned into death camps
Approximately 6 million Jews died.
Approximately 11 million people died total.

12. Not just Jews, many others deemed “unfit” were put to death:
Name at least two groups (other than Jews) that were persecuted during the holocaust
Not just Jews, many others deemed “unfit” were put to death:
Blacks
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Disabled
Communists
Jehovah’s Witness
Helene Gotthold, a Jehovah's Witness, was beheaded for her religious beliefs on December 8, 1944, in Berlin. She is pictured with her children. Germany, June 25, 1936.

13. What was Hitler’s Final Solution?
Nazi Germany’s plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during WWII, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust.

17. The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Saturday, 26 April 1986:
The accident at reactor 4 occurred during an experiment to test a potential safety emergency core cooling feature.
2 workers died on the night of the accident
28 people died within a few weeks
Radiation injuries to over a hundred
115,000 people evacuated
220,000 people relocated
6,000 cases of thyroid cancer
Large areas were contaminated