1. The Defeat of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

2. June 6, 1944  D-Day. Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy and defeat the Germans.

6. Vive La France!  By September of 1944, France is liberated from German occupation.

7. Battle of the Bulge  Last German offensive in WWII.

8. Berlin is invaded in 1945.  The Soviet army take Berlin.  Hitler commits suicide.

9. U.S. re-captures the Pacific Islands

10. Hiroshima and Nagasaki

11. Hirohito surrenders.

12. Final Count  15 million killed during the war.  40 million dead from starvation, genocide, and disease.

13. The Holocaust

14. Untermenschen  Slavs were seen as subhuman beasts.  Many Poles were killed.  Marriage was limited for the Poles to prevent children.

15. Judenrein  “Free of Jews”  6 Million Jews lived in Poland alone

17. Anti-Semitism  Prohibited Jews from having certain jobs,  Businesses were closed Sundays.  Jews enter medicine and law professions.

18. 1 st Plan  Herd all of the Jews into Lublin, Poland.

19. Ghettos  Jews were forced to live in ghettos.  The largest were in Lodz and Warsaw.  Many died here of disease and malnutrition.

20. Genocide  1941- Jews were forced to leave the ghettos for concentration camps.

21. 1945  90% of the Polish Jews were killed.