THE HOLOCAUST

EXAMINE THE STATISTICS OF THE HOLOCAUST:

•IN WHAT NATION WERE MOST JEWS SENT TO THE GAS CHAMBERS?

•POLAND: WHY?•POLISH ANTI-SEMITISM

WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING:•1943 PASSOVER, THE SS PLANNED TO LIQUIDATE

THE WARSAW GHETTO•55,000 JEWS FOUGHT THEM FOR A MONTH•THE POLISH RESISTANCE REFUSED TO HELP THEM•7,000 DIED IN THE FIGHT•THE REST WERE SENT TO THE TREBLINKA DEATH

CAMP & OTHER CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

•IN WHAT NATION WERE THE LEAST JEWS SENT TO THE GAS CHAMBERS?

•DENMARK WHY?•DANISH RESISTANCE

EXAMINE THE STATISTICS OF THE HOLOCAUST:

SAVING DENMARK’S JEWS•1940: GERMAN INVADED DENMARK•1943: HITLER ORDERED THE ROUNDING UP

OF DANISH JEWS•DANISH PEOPLE HID THEIR JEWS &

SMUGGLED JEWS INTO NEUTRAL SWEDEN•LARGEST COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE AGAINST

THE NAZIS

TIMELINE OF HOLOCAUST•1933: DACHAU 1ST CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS

•1935: NUREMBERG LAWS: JEWS •WERE NOT ALLOWED TO OWN PROPERTY•WERE NOT ALLOWED TO ATTEND SCHOOL OR UNIVERSITY

•MUST WEAR A YELLOW STAR OF DAVID AT ALL TIMES

•1938 KRISTALLNACHT—DESTRUCTION OF JEWISH HOMES & BUSINESSES, ATTACK ON JEWS•1940: AUSCHWITZ-- 1ST DEATH CAMP•1944: DEATH MARCHES BEGAN

MAP OF HOLOCAUST CONCENTRATION & DEATH CAMPS

WHAT FACTORS LED TO THE HOLOCAST?

FACTORS

•ANTI-SEMITISM•THE ARYAN IDEAL•HITLER YOUTH•IMPERIAL COLONIZATION

•MASTER RACE•NAZI PARTY•PROPAGANDA•RACISM

HOW WELL DO YOU UNDERSTAND

TOTALITARIANISM?

UNIT 9 REVIEWTOTALITARIANISM

BOTH FASCISM AND COMMUNISM ARE _____ GOVERNMENTS

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Completism Totalitarianism

GERDA WEISSMANN SURVIVED THE DEATH MARCH BECAUSE HER FATHER MADE HER WEAR HER ____ WHEN THE FAMILY WAS BEING SENT TO THE CAMPS

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No frozen toes Ski boots

•GREAT BRITAIN SUCCESSFUL STOOD ALONE AGAINST HITLER BECAUSE OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THIS PRIME MINISTER

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British Bulldog Winston Churchill

•THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN WAS FOUGHT BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND GERMAN ___, IT WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE

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Not land or sea

Air Force

Blitz

•THESE EUROPEAN NATIONS BECAME FASCIST DICTATORSHIPS BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WWII

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Mussolini, Hitler, Franco

Italy, Germany, Spain

THE NAZI SECRET POLICE

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Not SS or SA Gestapo

THIS NATION BECAME THE FIRST COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT IN 1917

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Formerly Russia USSR

WORLD WAR II BEGAN WHEN GERMANY INVADED

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Warsaw is capital Poland

HITLER USED GERMAN ANGER OVER THIS TREATY TO HELP HIM RISE TO POWER

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Louis XIV’s palace Versailles

•RUSSIANS WHO DIDN’T COOPERATE WITH STALIN WERE SENT TO SLAVE LABOR CAMPS CALLED ___. MOST OF THESE CAMPS WERE LOCATED IN WHAT REGION OF RUSSIA?

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Not death camps,Coldest region Gulags, Siberia

•AT THIS CONFERENCE BRITAIN AND FRANCE ALLOWED HITLER TO TAKE SUDETENLAND FROM ____ THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ____

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German City,South of Poland,whimpishment

Munich,Czechoslovakia,

Appeasement

•ALLIANCE BETWEEN GERMANY, ITALY AND JAPAN DURING WORLD WAR II

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Geometric Powers Axis Powers

THE LAST RUSSIAN TSAR

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Alexandra’s Husband Nicholas II

•WERE THE FIRST 2 COMMUNIST LEADERS OF THE SOVIET UNION

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L & S Lenin & Stalin

•THIS STYLE OF WARFARE ALLOWED HITLER TO QUICKLY DEFEAT POLAND AND FRANCE. ITS SUCCESS WAS BASED ON THE USE OF WHAT TWO WEAPONS? ____ AND ____

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Lightning War,Armored & winged

Blitzkreig,Tanks & planes

•THE FIRST FASCIST DICTATOR CAME TO POWER IN 1922 WHEN HIS BLACKSHIRTS MARCHED ON THE ITALIAN CAPITAL: ____

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Il Duce Mussolini

•NICHOLAS II’S DOWNFALL WAS TO GET RUSSIAN INVOLVED IN THIS WAR

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The Great War World War I

SOOCHOW WAS A JAPANESE PRISON CAMP FOR WHAT GROUP OF CIVILIANS?

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Nationality British

•IN 1935 HITLER PASSED THESE LAWS AGAINST JEWS TAKING AWAY THEIR PROPERTY, DENYING THEM THE RIGHT TO GO TO SCHOOL AND REQUIRING THEM TO WEAR A ____

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German Cityshape

Nuremberg,Yellow Star

IN 1931 THE JAPANESE INVADED WHAT CHINESE PROVINCE

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_ an _ _ uria Manchuria

HITLER AND MUSSOLINI USED THIS CIVIL WAR AS A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR WWII

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Between Nationalists & Popular Front Spanish

HOW MANY JEWS WERE KILLED DURING THE HOLOCAUST? _____ HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE MURDERED BY THE NAZIS? ____

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Points on Star of David, plus 5 6 million, 11 million

•DURING IT PABLO PICASSO PAINTED A DEPICTION OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TOWN OF ____. WHAT ARTISTIC STYLE DID HE USE?

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_ uerni _ _Squarism

Guernica,Cubism

OPERATION BARBAROSSA WAS HITLER’S BIGGEST MISTAKE, IT WAS THE INVASION OF

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Napolean did it too USSR

SYMBOL OF THE NAZI PARTY

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Swastika

•RUSSIAN FARMERS FROM THE UKRAINE WHO RESISTED THE ____ OF FARMS. THEIR LIQUIDATION CAUSED 6 MILLION RUSSIANS TO STARVE TO DEATH IN THE _____

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_ ula _ s,Gatherization,

Killer starvation

Kulaks,Collectivization,Murder Famine

THIS “ULTRA SECRET” MACHINE ALLOWED THE ALLIES TO DECODE THE AXIS MESSAGES

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Eni _ _ a Enigma

•IN 1938 HITLER UNITED THIS NATION WITH GERMANY IN THE ANSCHLUSS

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Vienna Austria

•RUSSIAN MONK WHOSE INFLUENCE OVER THE CZARINA ALEXANDRA WOULD HELP DESTROY THE PEOPLE’S TRUST IN HER AND HER HUSBAND

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_ as _ utin Rasputin

•FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHERE THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL OF ALL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE

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Completism Totalitarianism

HOSTILITY TOWARDS OR PREJUDICE AGAINST JEWS

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Anti-middle easternism Anti-semitism

•TERM USED BY THE NAZIS TO MEAN A SUPERIOR RACE--WHITE NORDIC EUROPEAN TYPICALLY BLOND, BLUE-EYED AND TALL

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_ ry _ n Aryan

•ORGANIZATION FOR INDOCTRINATION OF GERMAN CHILDREN TO BECOME SOLDIERS AND SS WHO WERE “BORN TO DIE FOR GERMANY.”Clue Answer

Fuhrer Teen Hitler Youth

HITLER WROTE HIS BOOK MEIN KAMPF WHILE SERVING HIS PRISON TERM FOR THIS FAILED COUP

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Bar Coup Beer Hall Putsch

JOSEPH GOEBBELS WAS IN CHARGE OF NAZI

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Deliberate lies Propaganda

•”NIGHT OF ____ _____”—NOVEMBER 9, 1938 NAZI STORM TROOPERS ATTACKED JEWISH HOMES, BUSINESSES, AND SYNAGOGUES ACROSS GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

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Vandalism Broken glass,Kristallnacht

SCHUTZSTAFFEL OR PROTECTION SQUAD, ELITE BLACK-UNIFORMED MILITARY UNIT LOYAL ONLY TO HITLER WHO WERE USED TO ARREST AND MURDER JEWS AND OPERATE THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS

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Not Brownshirts SS

•THE DEFEAT OF THE GERMAN ARMY AT THIS RUSSIAN CITY BECAME THE TURNING POINT IN THE EASTERN FRONT DURING WORLD WAR II

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City of Man of Steel Stalingrad

WHO WAS THE 1ST AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO MET GERDA WHEN SHE WAS LIBERATED

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Her Husband Kurt Klein

ON AUGUST 6, 1945; THE 1ST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON THIS JAPANESE CITY BY THE UNITED STATES

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Not Nagasaki Hiroshima

LOCATED IN POLAND, IT WAS THE LARGEST OF THE NAZI EXTERMINATION CAMPS WITH GAS CHAMBERS THAT COULD KILL 6,000 PEOPLE IN A SINGLE DAYClue Answer

_ _ schwi _ _ Auschwitz

THE FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMP CREATED BY HITLER IN 1933, USED TO IMPRISON POLITICAL PRISONERS

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_ ach _ _ Dachau

THE CULT OF LEADERSHIP, POLICE STATE, AND RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION OF OPPOSITION ARE PART OF

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Completism Totalitarianism

HOW MANY RUSSIANS WERE MURDERED BY STALIN?

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1 million for every year he was in power 20-30 million

•CENTRAL FIGURE IN THE CREATION OF FASCISM AND WAS BOTH AN INFLUENCE ON AND CLOSE ALLY OF ADOLF HITLER DURING WORLD WAR II

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Il Duce Mussolini

BEFORE THEY SURRENDERED BOTH THE JAPANESE AND NAZIS FORCED THEIR CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONERS TO PARTICIPATE IN ____ AS PART OF AN EFFORT TO CONCEAL WHAT THEY HAD DONE

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Parade of the Dying Death March

THIS EUROPEAN NATION SAVED 99% OF THEIR JEWS DURING WORLD WAR II

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Daneland Denmark

ESSAY QUESTIONS:•COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE EXPERIENCES OF JEWS IN NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS WITH THE JAPANESE TREATMENT OF THEIR CIVILIAN PRISONS IN THEIR CAMPS.

•IN YOUR OPINION, WHO WAS WORSE HITLER OR STALIN? GIVE SEVERAL REASONS WHY AND USED FACTUAL DETAILS TO SUPPORT YOUR OPINION.

•COMPARE AND CONTRAST COMMUNISM AND FASCISM. USE FACTUAL DETAILS FROM THE USSR AND GERMANY IN YOUR ESSAY.