Week of April 11th-15th

[2Jacob]

WWII Notes

Monday: Finished the WWII and started to watch the video

Tuesday: Watched WWII Video

Wednesday: Finished WWII Video

Thursday: Took WWII Axis Powers Test

Friday: Took WWII Axis Powers Test

• Germany
  • 1941
    • Jews throughout Eastern Europe are forced into ghettos 
    • In two days, Germa units shoot 33,771 Ukrainian
  • 1942
    • Nazi officials announce "Final Solution" - their plan to kill all European Jews
    • Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
    • Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camps
    • The United States, Great Britain, 
  • 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
  • 1945
    • Hitler is defeated and WOrld War II 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. 
  • 1947
    • The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948.