Hitler: in prision for trying to overthrow the government, writes book called Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
-talks about his anti-jew beliefs.
-hated democracy - gave too much power to the people.
Leibensrom: living space for the German people in Eucrane.
-tryed to run for president
-appointed Chansler. (head of the government - right under the president.) thought by doing that they could tell him what to do. President died soon after that though.
-The Jews were looking to take over the world and the world will go to hell.
-Believed that it was God's will for him to do this. Says that the Jews were the Devil.
-A lot of smart "elite" people could see through Hitler and left.
Holocaust
-2/3 of Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
-about 6million of the 9 m.
-11-17 million.
-more then just jews were killed; Gypsies, Handicapped, Gays, Africans, Communists/Socialists, dark skinned people,
-Jehovah's Witnesses
-ARYAN RACE; blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular.
-LEBENSBORN- fount of life.
-houses were set up through Germany and occupied territories and many children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape.
-Muremburg Laws 1935:
Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights.
Was if you had 3 Jewish grandparents you were considered Jewish. changed it to 1 Jew.
Jews could only marry Jews
No sexual relations between non-Jewish Germans and Jews.
Kristallnacht-1938
"Night of Broken Glass"
-on the nights gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods and broke windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues. 101 churches were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destrooyed. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Jews were physically attacked and beaten - 91 died.
1938 Cont..
-All Jewish children are expelled
1939
-Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Australia
-Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars.
1940
-Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland
-Jews are forced into ghettos
-Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in POLAND.
1941
-Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
-in 2 days, Gamans shot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews. largest single massacure of the holocaust.
-death camps in Poland becam murdering Jews.
1942
-Nazi officials announce "Final Solution" - their plan to kill all Jews. (European Jews)
-fice death camps begin operation in Poland
-Ghettos in Eastern Europe are being emptied as thougsands of Jews are shipped to death camps
-the US, GB, and Societ Union acknowledge that Germans are extermination the Jews of Europe.
1943
-Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resists as the NAzis begin new rounds of deportations. These Jews hold out for nearly a month before the Nazis put down the uprising.
1944
-Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered.
1945
-WAR ENDS.
-Hitler is defeated and WW11 ends in Europe
-The Holocaust is over and the death fcamps are emptied.
-Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them.
1947
-The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British - controlled Palestine , which becomes the State of Israel in 1948.
Josef Mengele was cheif physician/scientists.at Auschwitz.
Russia/Soviet Union/USSR
Russia dropped out of WW I due to the Bolshevik Revolution
Economically, it was in terrible shape
Vladimir Ulyanov(Lenin)
Lenin emerged as the leader of the communists.
Lenin was a big Marxist supporter
-Marx never outlined how exactly to reach a classless society so Lenin and the government took control of the economy and farms with a promise to eventually give it back to the peasants.
Lenin organized the country into a federation of republics
- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Lenin died in 1924
Power struggled ensued between Leon Trotsky and Josef Stalin.
Stalin would win.
Josef Stalin
Wanted to focus on building up the Soviet Union’s economy
Eliminated political opponents in great purges(800,000)
Wanted nationalization and collectivization of the economy
-gov’t took control of industry(nationalization- government taking over businesses)
-abolished private ownership(upset Kulaks)
-forced peasants to merge their land into large collective
farms(collectivization - talking over the farms)
The Kulaks resisted and Stalin used the secret police to kill them
Stalin admitted that at least 10 million people died due to collectivization and famine
Five Year Plans
-Stalin’s idea of economic growth for industry and
agriculture
-Goals were to be met in a five year time frame
-Wasn’t until the third 5 Year Plan did the economy start
to improve
Kellogg-Braind Pact. - outlawed wars.
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