Monday- Talked about our movie summaries, some verbalized, and some wrote theirs.
Tuesday- Finish up summaries, then go over notes on power point
Battle of Britain-The Blitz September 1940-May, 1941
Royal Air Force- Church hill says we owe them everything
Luftwaffe- Herman Goering was the leader. Messerschmitt Bf 109
Air Raid Shelters during the Blitz- Sirens would go off and go to the basement.
Results- In May, 1941, Germany decided to focus on attacking British ships and ports and thus stopped attacking British ships and ports and thus stopped attacking cities. British losses- around 40,000 civilians dead. 46,000-139,000 injured. German losses- 3,363 aircrew and 2,265 aircraft. Britain won by the fact that Germany did not achieve their goals.
German Invasion of USSR-June, 1941- Final Plan for Operation Barbarossa. Hitler and Stalin have an agreement not to fight each other, to split Poland together. Germany is going to run out of space, so they move over to Ukraine. Stalin and Hitler didn't trust or like each other. Would not of dropped the bomb on white Germans, but would on the Japanese.
Battle of Moscow- The soviet Winter counteroffensive December 6, 1941- April 30,1942. The Russian Winter sets in and make is huge turning point in the war. Between November 1941 and October 1942 641,000 people died of starvation. People resorted to eating rats, wallpaper paste, and some resorted to cannibalism. A successful Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad forced the Germans to move troops there and eventually, the siege failed. The Germans never took Leningrad but it was most costly conflicts Russia had ever faced.
Wednesday-Power point notes
Siege of Leningrad- On August 30th 1941, the Germans took over Leningrad's railroads, cutting them off from the rest of Russia and the world. Unlike the Battle of Stalingrad, the Germans surrounded the city to starve the city into submission
The North Africa Campaign: June, 1940-May, 1943- Gen. Bernard Montgomery("Monty") Gen Erwin Rommel(The Desert Fox) Rommel was sneaky and clever in the desert.
Operation Torch-November,1942- US and British forces invade North Africa. By May, 1943, Axis Forces surrendered in North Africa. The campaign would now shift to the islands in the Mediterranean Sea and Italy.
The Battle of Sicily- The Italian campaign "Operation Avalanche" Europe's "Soft Underbelly" Fighting Germans some Italians. Italy surrendered and turned into an Allie.
D-Day(June 6, 1944)- Canadian, British, and U.S. Forces.
July 20, 1944 Assassination Plot- Tried to kill Hitler, but It didn't happen.
Thursday-
The liberation Paris august 25, 1944- De gaulle in Triumph. War still not over. Germany launches a massive
The battle of Bulge: Hitlers last offensive. Let Germany know that he was going to take them down with him. December 16, 1944 to Jan 28. 1945. U.S. won.
US & Russian Soldiers Meet at the Elbe River (In Germany)
Hitler Commits suicide On April 30, 1945. Hitler and his wife got married and then committed suicide together.
The Fuehrer's Bunker- People killed their own children. And had them take siani
V- E Day (May 8, 1945) The war ends. Victory in Europe day.
Nazi Propaganda- "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it.. through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."- Adolf Hitler
The Holocaust- The genocide of approximately six million European Jews during WWII. A program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Approximately two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust died. Some say that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' killing of millions of people in other groups from Germany and other occupied territory. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million.
Genocide- Means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group such as. A. Killing members of the group B. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; C. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; D. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Member countries must 'Undertake to prevent and punish."
Aryan Race- Nazis' used term to refer to a so-called master race that originated around Germany. Perfect Aryan was blonde, blue-eyed,tall and muscular. The original term refers to people speaking a Indo-European speaking
Who was inferior According to Hitler?- Jews(6 million dead) Gypsies(500,000 to 1.5 million) Mentally/Physically handicapped people(75,000 to 250,000) Soviet Slavs/POW's/Troops-(16.5 million) Poles(2.5 million dead) Homosexuals(5-15 thousand dead) Communists/socialists(many but number not confirmed) Dark skinned people (death and forced sterilization) Mixed races- "The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore"-Adolf Hitler. Jehovah's Witnesses(2,500-5,000)
Lebensborn-Fount of life- The program aimed to promote the growth of superior. Houses were set up throughout Germany and many occupied. Rumors of Rape. A "baby factory" abortions not allowed.
Hitlers Jewish Question-1933- What are we gonna do with the Jews? kill them. Nazis' "temporarily suspend civil liberties for all citizens in 1933-never restored. The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau in 1933. The first inmates are 200 communists. Jews are prohibited from working as civil servants, doctors in the National Health Service, and teachers in public high schools. Most Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.
Friday-
Nuremberg Laws 1935- Took away German citizenship from Jews thus making Jews second class citizens by removing their basic civil rights. Established membership in the Jewish race as being anyone who either considered themselves Jewish or had three or four Jewish grandparents. People with one or two Jewish grandparents were considered to be mixed. Eventually anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent was at risk in Nazi Germany. Jews could only marry Jews. No sexual relations between non Jewish Germans and Jews
1936- Nazis' boycott
Kristallnacht-1938"Night of the Broken Glass" On the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938, the Nazis' roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting. In all 101 synagogues were destroyed, and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died in the attack. All Jewish children are expelled from public schools in Germany and Austria. Nazis take control of Jewish-owned businesses.
Hitlers Final Solution's- Genocide
1939- Starts targeting handicapped people. Hitler orders the systematic murder of the mentally and physically disabled in Germany and Austria. Jews are required to wear armbands or yellow stars.
1940- Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland. Jews forced into ghettos. Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland.
1941- Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos. In two days, German units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian Jews are the largest single massacre of the holocaust. The death camp at Chelmno in Poland begins murdering Jews. US gets into war.
1942- Nazi officials announce "final solution" their plan to kill all European Jews. Ghettos being emptied sent to death camps. US and Great Britain and the soviet union acknowledge that Germans are exterminating the Jews of Europe.
1943- 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 defeated and WWII ends in Europe. The Holocaust is over and the death camps are found emptied. Many survivors are placed in displaced persons camps until they find a country willing to accept them.
1946- War ended
1947-The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British- Controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948.
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