World War II & The Holocaust Student made

Nazis Vs. Jews Nazi - abbreviation for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party that ruled Germany from (along with Hitler). Jew - a Jewish person; one target of the Holocaust Aryan - people the Nazis considered to be “pure” racially; Caucasian Gentiles. Adolph Hitler - the German dictator from ; founder of the Nazi party. Nazi government attacked all non- Aryans, including Jews, misfits, disabled, and others.

Hitler’s Plans and Propaganda The Final Solution: the final, complete genocide of all inferior races (AKA non-Aryans) Hitler’s speeches were deeply moving and slowly persuaded the public into his ways. Propaganda- the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring a cause Joseph Goebbels Hitler related the Jews’ population within Germany to an infestation of rats

Camps of the Holocaust: Death, Slave and Concentration Death Camp : Where victims were taken to be killed Slave Camp: camps where useful “undesirables” went to work, then most likely die. Concentration Camp : prison camp where “undesirables” went These camps were based on Hitler’s Final Solution- to exterminate all of the “undesirables”

Finally…A Surrender! When Germany was defeated in World War II, this brought the surrender of Hitler and his party, including the release of all camps. Because the Germans were so precise with their records of torture, they were forced to burn the concentration camps and previous records to the Holocaust.

Pearl Harbor: The Introduction to World War II Before Pearl Harbor, the United States was just a speculator in the world war. Japan had decided to bomb Pearl Harbor, a rest stop for cargo transportation, attempting (successfully) to involve the US in the war This had really ticked off the US, thus, making them become an ally in the war. Pearl Harbor became the drafting call for many citizens of the United States.

D-Day June 6, 1944 Dooms Day (AKA D-Day) was the day of the Normandy invasion upon France. Despite the losses of D-Day, it was a true victory for the allied forces