Week of March 2 - 6 - Blogs

March 2 - Took notes over Germany.

March 3 - Took notes over Germany.

March 4 - Took notes over the Holocaust.

March 5 - Test day.

March 6 - No school.

Germany

Nazi Goals
- Destroy the Royal Air Force (before invasion was possible - hopefully by 9-15)
  - Never succeeded
  - German bombers did so poorly against the RAF that they started bombing at night only
  - Great Britain was aided heavily by the radar and Ultra
- Attack and destroy the British Navy
- Attack British troops Once air control was gained, the invasion of Great Britain would begin
Siege of Leningrad
- Starved people
D-Day- June 6, 1944 = Beginning of the end of German power
July 20, 1944 - Assassination Plot to kill Hitler
- Many plots to kill him
April 30, 1945 - Hitler commits suicide
Germany split into west and east Germany
- West was our Allie
- East was communist
Germany eventually reunited
Goal of propaganda - Promote nationalism, the Aryan race, build up military, intimidation

ON TEST

Munich Conference
Takes over Czechoslovakia
Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
- Agreed to trade with one another
- Agreed to split Poland
Sitzkrieg - The Phony War
Name five countries that Hitler took over in 1940
- Netherlands
- France
- Belgium
- Norway
- Denmark
- Luxembourg
Maginot Line
Miracle of Dunkirk
Understand the Battle of Britain
- Germany was trying to bomb Great Britain into submission
- Royal Air Force
- Ultra
What was Hitlers biggest mistake? Invading USSR in June 1941
- Stalingrad
Moscow
- Leningrad
- Thought if he could take over those cities USSR would surrender

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

Who was inferior to Hitler?

What is the Aryan Race?

Nazis used term to refer to so-called master race that originated around Germany
Perfect Aryan was tall, blue eyed, blonde haired, muscular

Lebensborn - Fount of Life

The program aimed to promote the growth of "superior" Aryan populations by providing excellent health care and living conditions to women and by restricting access to those deemed "fit"
Houses were set up throughout Germany and many other occupied territories
Many Lebensborn children were born to unwed mothers which helped lead to many rumors of rape
Contrary to widespread rumors, women were not forced to have relations with Aryan Germans

Hitler's Jewish Question - 1933

Nazi's "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 teacher in public high schools. All but few Jewish students are banned from public high schools and colleges.

Nuremburg 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 race.
- 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

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
26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps

1938 Continued

1939

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

1942

Nazi official announce "Final Solution" - their plan to kill all European Jews
Five death camps begin operation in Poland: Majdanek, Sobibor, Teblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
Ghettos of Eastern Europe are being emptied as thousands of Jews are shipped to death camp

1943

Jews in 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 person 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