Today we continued mr. bruns' ww2 powerpoint.
- No one liked us because we were constantly controlling.
- Instead of people enemies, Roosevelt decided that we should be better neighbors so he created the good neighbor policy.
- The Nuremburg Laws of 1935 made Jews second class citizens and removed their basic civil rights.
- It established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents. People with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed race.
- Jews could only marry Jews so it wouldnt affect the German race.
- Hitler didnt like mixed races, which is why he didnt like the United States.
- He was very interested in twins, he did a lot of testing on them and many of them died in the process.
- He also didnt like Jehovah's Witnesses.
- The Aryan Race is misused by the Nazis to mean a so-called master race that originated around Germany.
- A perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed, tall and muscular.
- HItler and Mussolini announced their alliance by signing a treaty.
- The Japanese invaded China. But because of all of the people and the great size, they failed.
- The Japanese treated the Chinese very badly and they still have not apologized and still butt heads today.
- While everyone was getting into the war, the U.S. was trying to make World War 1 not repeat itself.
- Our first incident with the Japanese was the Panay Incident.
- They attacked a U.S. gun ship and killed a few people, they later apologized.
- Hitler started threatening to take away the Sudetland.
- The Sudetland/Munich Conference involved Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France.
- Hitler got Sudetland because he wanted his Germans and said he wouldnt take anymore countries after that but he lied.
- They apeased Winston Churchill for saying he didnt want Hitler getting more land and was criticized.
- The Night of the Broken Glass was when the Nazis went around breaking windows, burning down synagogues, and it also was the start of the concentration camps.
- Soviet-German non-aggression Pact was when Hitler and Stalin agreed to sign this.
- Russia gave raw materials to Germany in exchange for money and weapons.
- Both agreed to stay neutral if the other entered the war.
- Secretly agreed to invade and split Poland. Germany would get the western half and USSR the eastern half.
- Russia would get Finland, Estonia, and Latvia and Germany would get Lithuania.
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