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Tragic Legacy of World War II: The Holocaust

Learn about the horrors of the Holocaust, where millions of innocent lives were lost in death camps and the devastating impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ultimately leading to the end of World War II. Discover the chilling history that shaped our world forever.

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Tragic Legacy of World War II: The Holocaust

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  1. World War II

  2. Holocaust • Discovered after Germany surrendered in 1945 • 1941 Nazis adopted the “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem: death camps • German scientists experimented with the most efficient ways of killing large numbers of people • Jews shipped to the camps, stripped of everything, hair shaved, separated from their families

  3. Healthy people were put to work while the old, young and sick were killed • “Showers” spouted deadly Zyklon-B gas • Many others died from overwork, starvation, and disease • By 1945 over 6 million Jews, Roma/Gypsies, Slavs and other “inferiors” had been murdered

  4. Japan Surrenders Socials 11

  5. Allied Victory in Europe • Germany surrenders May 7, 1945 • War in the Pacific intensifies • Japanese army still strong – vowed to “fight to the last person” • U.S. Government decides to use the atomic bomb

  6. Atomic Bomb • Equal to 20 000t of TNT • Manhattan Project: top-secret plan to develop a nuclear bomb • Uranium from the Eldorado mine at Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada (owned by Canadian government)

  7. August 6, 1945 • In order to stop Japan, the U.S.A. decides to use the atomicbomb: President Truman (Roosevelt’ssuccessor) gives the order to drop the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki • U.S. Bomber “Enola Gay” drops the first bomb on Hiroshima, kills 70 000 instantly, another 130 000 severely wounded • People vaporized, burned by radiation, crushed by collapsed buildings

  8. Atomic Bomb • Second bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later, kills 40 000 people • Power of the atomic bomb puts an end to the war • Emperor Hirohito surrenders August 15, whichmarks the official end of the Second World War

  9. Videos • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19kvUiHvAE • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi2P-7mBwUU

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