1. AKS 47: World War II
Chapter 32 – Pages

2. The Holocaust Who…? …were the victims of the Holocaust?
Non-Aryan peoples, primarily Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, etc.

3. The Holocaust Who…? …were members of the “master race”? Aryans
The signs read:
“Germans! Defend Yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!”

4. The Holocaust What…? …were the Nuremberg Laws?
German laws depriving Jews of rights to citizenship & jobs

5. The Holocaust What…? …happened on the night of November 9, 1938?
On Kristallnacht, the Nazis launched a violent attack on Jewish communities all over Germany

6. The Holocaust What…? …was Hitler’s “Final Solution”?
Systematic killing of entire groups of people, particularly Jews, whom the Nazis saw as inferior

7. The Holocaust Where…?
…did German Jews try to migrate to find safety from Nazi terror?
France, Britain, USA, & other countries

8. The Holocaust Where…?
…were Jews forced to live in German-controlled cities?
In ghettos – segregated Jewish areas

9. The Holocaust Where…? …were the concentration camps?
Mainly in Germany & Poland

10. The Holocaust Why…?
…did Hitler believe that Jews & other “subhumans” had to be exterminated?
To protect the purity of the Aryan race

11. The Holocaust Why…? …did the Germans build extermination camps?
To carry out mass murders in huge gas chambers

12. The Holocaust When…? …did the final stage of the Final Solution begin?
Early 1942

13. The Holocaust How…?
…did non-Jewish people try to save Jews from the horrors of Nazism?
By hiding Jews in their homes or helping them escape to neutral countries
 Anne Frank

14. The Holocaust How…? …many Jews died in the Holocaust?
Approximately 6,000,000

15. Nuremberg Trials
Nazis put on trial for crimes against humanity (events of Holocaust)
Goal was to punish Nazi officials using a democratic system

16. Japanese Internment Camps in the United States
Japanese-Americans placed in camps
Why? – feared they were enemies or spies after bombing at Pearl Harbor

17. Tehran Conference When?
November 28 – December 1, 1943

18. Tehran Conference Members Present?
Franklin Roosevelt {USA}
Winston Churchill {Britain}
Joseph Stalin {USSR}

19. Tehran Conference Purpose of Meeting?
Coordinate military strategy against Germany & Japan
Decide on important issues of post-WWII era

20. Tehran Conference Purpose of Meeting?
Coordination of D-Day invasion
Poland’s post-war borders
First discussions about splitting up Germany into zones of occupation
First discussions of the future United Nations between Stalin and FDR
*Many issues left for final decisions at later conferences

21. Yalta Conference When?
February 4-11, 1945

22. Yalta Conference Members Present?
Franklin Roosevelt {USA}
Winston Churchill {Britain}
Joseph Stalin {USSR}

23. Yalta Conference Purpose of Meeting?
Make final decisions about the end of the war.

24. Yalta Conference What was decided?
Divide Germany into 4 zones controlled by Allied military forces.
Germany must pay the USSR.
Stalin agreed to join war against Japan 90 days after the end of the war in Europe.
Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe.

25. Potsdam Conference Members Present?
Joseph Stalin
(USSR)
Potsdam Conference Members Present?
Winston Churchill
(Britain)
Harry Truman
(USA)
THE BIG THREE

26. Potsdam Conference Purpose of Meeting?
Clarify agreements from Yalta

27. Potsdam Conference What was decided?
Potsdam Declaration
Unconditional surrender of Japan
Japanese disarmament, establishment of democratic government
Postwar European borders (especially Poland)

29. Formation of the United Nations The Beginning
Stalin & FDR secretly discussed ideas for U.N. at Tehran Conference
1944: Britain, China, USSR, & met in D.C. & drafted the 1st charter

30. Formation of the United Nations First Meeting
April 1945 in San Francisco
Delegates from 50 nations worked for 2 months to develop the official charter

31. Formation of the United Nations Details & Purpose
Purpose: peacekeeping organization designed to protect its members against aggression
Permanent Members of Security Council:
USA, Britain, USSR, France, China

32. Marshall Plan for Europe Who…?
…proposed the plan?
U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall

33. Marshall Plan for Europe When…?
…did he propose the plan?
1947

34. Marshall Plan for Europe What…?
…did he propose the U.S. needed to do?
Give aid to needy European countries
Provide food, machinery, & other materials to rebuild Western Europe & stop Soviet expansion
Truman signs Marshall Plan 

35. MacArthur’s Plan for Japan Demilitarization
Disbanded Japanese armed forces
Left Japanese with small police force

36. MacArthur’s Plan for Japan Democratization
Created a gov’t elected by the people
Set up a constitutional monarchy b/c Japanese wanted to keep emperor

37. MacArthur’s Plan for Japan Other Reforms
Land ownership was expanded
Independent labor unions had the right to form
Increase participation of workers & farmers in new democracy