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WORLD WAR II and the HOLOCAUST

WORLD WAR II and the HOLOCAUST. SS6H7 The student will explain conflict and change in Europe to the 21st century. Essential Question Why is the Holocaust a significant event of WWII?. WORLD WAR II ERUPTS.

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WORLD WAR II and the HOLOCAUST

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  1. WORLD WAR II and the HOLOCAUST

  2. SS6H7 The student will explain conflict and change in Europe to the 21st century.

  3. Essential Question Why is the Holocaust a significant event of WWII?

  4. WORLD WAR II ERUPTS After World War I, strong dictatorships took hold in several places across the world.

  5. AXIS POWERS Axis powers are aggressive governments who took over countries near them and formed an alliance. Germany under Adolf Hitler Italy under Benito Mussolini Japan under Emperor Hirohito

  6. ALLIED POWERS The countries that opposed the Axis Powers were known as the Allied Powers. The Allied Powers include: Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States.

  7. WORLD WAR BEGINS World War II started in 1939 when Germany attacked Poland, and continued until 1945 when Germany and Japan surrendered.

  8. WORLD WAR BEGINS Many of the battles had been fought in Europe, and the countries were devastated by terrible destruction and loss of life once again.

  9. THE HOLOCAUST Beginning in the 1930s, Adolf Hitler tried to get rid of all the Jews in Europe.

  10. THE HOLOCAUST Jews had been disliked and persecuted in Germany for hundreds of years.

  11. THE HOLOCAUST He believed that his Aryan race was superior to any other race.

  12. THE HOLOCAUST First, he hurt the Jews economically by ordering Germans not to shop in stores owned by Jews.

  13. “Germans protect yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!

  14. THE HOLOCAUST Then, his army made them leave their homes and move into crowded areas called ghettos.

  15. THE HOLOCAUST The Jews were forced to work as slaves.

  16. THE HOLOCAUST Finally, Jews were forced to move into concentration camps or death camps where they were murdered by breathing poison gas.

  17. THE HOLOCAUST Hitler was responsible for the murder of more than six million Jews between 1933 and 1945.

  18. THE HOLOCAUST The terrible period in history is known as the HOLOCAUST.

  19. THE HOLOCAUST After the war, many Holocaust survivors were afraid to go back to their former hones and many countries restricted where they could go.

  20. THE HOLOCAUST Finally, when the state of Israel was established in 1948, thousands of Jewish people flooded into their new homeland.

  21. Number the following events in the correct order. _____ Germans disliked and persecuted Jews. _____ Hitler ordered Germans not to shop in stores owned by Jews. _____ The State of Israel is established. _____ Jews were forced into concentration camps and killed. _____ Jews ordered to move into ghettos. 1 2 5 4 3

  22. http://www.auschwitz.dk/id17.htm

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