1. W ORLD W AR II The Holocaust

2. K-W-L CHART What I Know What I Want to Know What I Learned

3. G REAT D EPRESSION Severe worldwide economic depression Began in 1929 with the US stock market crash Ended around the early 1940’s Germany devastated by depression Large amounts of unemployment US stopped paying loans to help rebuild economy 1933 Nazi Party formed

4. H ATE V IOLENCE P YRAMID Acts of Bias Prejudice & Bigotry Discrimination Violence Genocide Stereotyping Jokes Rumors Insensitive remarks Justify bias by seeking out like-minded people Accept negative information & ignoring the positive info ScapegoatingName-callingEpithets RidiculeSocial AvoidanceDe-humanization HarassmentSocial Exclusion Discrimination of Employment, Education, & Housing Individual &/or Community MurderArson Rape Terrorism Assault Vandalism Threats Desecration HarassmentLynching Deliberate, systematic extermination of an entire people Non-Criminal Civil Criminal War Crime

5. N AZI P ARTY National Socialists German Workers Party Formed in 1919. In power to 1945 Led by Adolf Hitler supported the "racial purity of the German people" claimed itself as the protector of Germany from Jewish influence and corruption persecuted those they perceived as either race enemies included Jews, Slavs, Roma (gypsies), Communists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, and others

6. W ORLD W AR II 1939 – 1945 Two groups: Allies and Axis Germany wanted to establish a large empire Japan attacks US naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 4 days later Germany declares war on US US enters WW II German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 turned the tide of the war Germany surrendered to the Allies causing the fall of Nazi Germany, and the death of Adolf Hitler.

7. G ERMAN E XPANSION http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?Me diaId=3372

8. H OLOCAUST Means “the destruction” 6 million European Jews died Genocide: extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group Concentration camps: inmates used to do slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease

9. E LIE W IESEL Author of Night Night is a memoir of his experience during World War II (1944)

10. O PRAH INTERVIEW PART 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KugVjbq6Si8