1942
Nazi officials announced their plan to kill all Jews
Five death camps
Jews being shipped to death camps
We finnally heard news that they were exterminating Jews
1943
Jews resist in Warsaw Ghetto
1944
Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day
1945
Hitler is defeated and WW2 ends in Europe
The holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied
Many survivors are held in camps until some country claimed them
1947
The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in Israel in 1948
Science experience
Simease twins
How long to kill people without food
Josef Mengele was the chief scienist
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)
-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
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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