Slide 2: Germany is known for its many castles the best known is Neuschwanstein

What is the capital of Germany What is Neuschwanstein? What is Dachau? Where are cuckoo clocks made?

1871—Germany is created 1914-1919—World War I, Germany loses

Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler

Slide 5-8: Its infamous leader, Adolf Hitler, was dictator during World War II.

Allies—Britain, France, US, and the Soviet Union

Axis—Germany, Japan, and Italy

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph StalinWinston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin

Who became leader of Germany during the Great Depression?

What was the name of his political party? Besides Germany, name one other

country which made up the Axis Powers? Name two countries that made up the

Allied Powers? Which side did the US join? Who was President of the US during most

of WWII?

BERLIN

Separation of Germany into two countries—East and West Germany

West Germany was a democracy East Germany was communist, under

control of the Soviet Union or USSR Between 1943-1960—2.66 million East

Germans fled to West Germany

Slide 9: After World War II, Germany was divided into 2 countries: East Germany and West Germany.Slide 10-11: East Germany was a communist country under the influence of the USSR; and West Germany was a democracy with the help of the US.

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Slide 12: The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by the communists in order to stop people from going over to East Germany where people were free.

Slide 13: The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989. The Brandenburg Gate is famous.

What country had the most deaths during World War II?

What country had the highest percentage of deaths according to their total population?

What country had the least amount of deaths?