today we continued mr bruns' power point
1940-
-Nazis begin deporting German Jews to poland
-Jews are forced into ghettos
-Nazis begin the first mmass murder of Jews in Poland
1941-
-Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos
-in two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukranian Jews at BabiYar- the largest single massacre of the Holocaust
-The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews
1942-
-Nazi official announce "Final Solution"- thier plan to kill all European Jews
-Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz
-Ghetttos of eastern europe are being emptied aas thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps.
-The US, GB, and the Soviets acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe
1943-
-Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist aas 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 Hangary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered
1945-
-hitler is defeated and WWII ends in Europe
-The holocaust is over and the camps are liberated
-Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them
1947-
-THe UN estabilishes a Jewsih hoemland in British- controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Isreal in 1948
Kellogg-Briand Pact-
-60 countries sign a pact to outlaw war
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