World War II &

The Holocaust

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Nazis Vs. Jews•Nazi- abbreviation for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party that ruled Germany from 1933-1945 (along with Hitler).•Jew- a Jewish person; one target of the Holocaust•Aryan- people the Nazis considered to be “pure” racially; Caucasian Gentiles.•Adolph Hitler- the German dictator from 1933-1945; founder of the Nazi party.

•Nazi government attacked all non-Aryans, including Jews, misfits, disabled, and others.

Hitler’s Plans and Propaganda

• The Final Solution: the final, complete genocide of all inferior races (AKA non-Aryans)

• Hitler’s speeches were deeply moving and slowly persuaded the public into his ways.

• Propaganda- the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring a cause

• Joseph Goebbels

• Hitler related the Jews’ population within Germany to an infestation of rats

Camps of the Holocaust:

Death, Slave and Concentration• Death Camp: Where victims were taken to

be killed

• Slave Camp: camps where useful “undesirables” went to work, then most likely die.

• Concentration Camp: prison camp where “undesirables” went

• These camps were based on Hitler’s Final Solution- to exterminate all of the “undesirables”

Finally…A Surrender!• When Germany was defeated in World War

II, this brought the surrender of Hitler and his party, including the release of all camps.

• Because the Germans were so precise with their records of torture, they were forced to burn the concentration camps and previous records to the Holocaust.

Pearl Harbor: The Introduction to World War

II• Before Pearl Harbor,

the United States was just a speculator in the world war.

• Japan had decided to bomb Pearl Harbor, a rest stop for cargo transportation, attempting (successfully) to involve the US in the war

• This had really ticked off the US, thus, making them become an ally in the war.

• Pearl Harbor became the drafting call for many citizens of the United States.

D-Day

• June 6, 1944• Dooms Day (AKA D-Day) was the day of

the Normandy invasion upon France. • Despite the losses of D-Day, it was a

true victory for the allied forces