Today we listened to Black or White by Michael Jackson. We also continued with the powerpoint!-1941: All Eastern European Jews were sent to ghettos. In two days Nazis shot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews at BabiYar, the largest single massacre of the Holocaust. Chelmno death camp in Poland began murdering Jews-1942: Nazis officially announced the "final solution" to kill all European Jews. Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzac, and Auschwitz-Birkenau were death camps in Poland.-German and Japanese cities were demolished during the war-1943: Jews in Warsaw Ghetto resisted as the Nazis began new rounds of deportations, and held out four nearly a month before Nazis but down the uprising-1944: Hitler took over Hungary and began deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they were murdered-1945: Hitler was defeated and WWII ended in Europe. The Holocaust was over and death camps were emptied. Many survivors were placed in displaced persons camps until they found a country willing to accept them-1947: United Nations established a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which became Israel in 1948-Josef Mengele was the head of testing on people like twins in Germany-Joseph Stalin's real name was Iosif Jughashvili-Hitler was an artist, Musolini was an elementry school teacher, and Stalin went to school to be a priest-Kellogg-Briand Pact was where 60+ countries signed a petition to outlaw war as a means to settle disputes-Japanese needed many resources and Manchuria had just what they wanted so they invaded them-Latin America hated the United States because they felt we were a big bully and always tried to control them economically or militarily and tell them what to do-Good Neighbor Policy was trying to make us become better neighbors for economic and war-related reasons
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