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Hitler, Nazi propaganda, Holocaust,
Holocaust continued...
1941
- Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto resist 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
- Hitler is defeated and World War II ends in Europe.
- The Holocaust is over and the death camps 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 becoms the State of Isreal in 1948.
Nazi Science Experments
- Nazi Science in the Camps
- Mengele's Children - The Twins of Auscheits
- Josef Mengeles
Russia/Soviet Union/USSR
- Russia dropped out of WW I due to the Bolshevik Revolution (changed into a communist country)
- Economically, it was in terrible shape
Vladimir Ulyanov(Lenin)
- Communist- Like a dictatorship. Complete control over the country.
- The poor will rise up and take over the country and form a classless society.
- 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)
-abolished private ownership(upset Kulaks)
-forced peasants to merge their land into large collective
- farms(collectivization)
- 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-Briand Pact
- It was a pact to outlaw war but it was impossible to enforce it.
Japan
- They signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
- After the Great Depression Japan was running out of resources.
- They decided to invade Manchuria.
- It provided resources.
- It was eventually used to invade China.
- The League of Nations just condemed the actions
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