1. Great Depression and World War II Unit
The Holocaust
Great Depression and World War II Unit

2. Essential Question
What were the M.A.I.N. causes and events of World War II?

3. Key Vocabulary Genocide: the killing of an entire race of people
Final Solution: Hitler’s program of systemically killing the entire Jewish people.

4. Warm Up What do you believe the Holocaust was?
Do you think it should be studied?

5. The New Order and the Holocaust

6. The Holocaust Begins
Hitler was determined to promote a “master race” called the Aryans.
Those who were deemed inferior needed to be eliminated.
Kristallnacht became a warning sign for Jews of things to come.
Thousands began to flee.
As a solution to get rid of the Jews, they were placed in ghettos.
Horrible living conditions.

8. Original Jewish Population
Jews Killed
% Surviving
Poland
3,300,000
2,800,000
15%
Soviet Union
2,100,000
1,500,000
29%
Hungary
404,000
200,000
49%
Romania
850,000
425,000
50%
Germany/Austria
270,000
210,000
22%

9. Assessment Prompt 1
Looking at the graph on the previous slide, what does this graph tell you about Hitler’s plan to “purify the Aryan race?”

13. The “Final Solution”
Hitler’s program for racial purity was based on genocide.
Wanted to eliminate the gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the disabled, the incurably ill, but especially the Jews.
Early on, the undesirable were rounded up and shot.
However, this method was not fast enough for Hitler
Wansee Conference
Plan to implement the “Final Solution to the Jewish Problem”

14. Assessment Prompt 2
What prompted Hitler to enact his “Final Solution?”

16. The Death Camps
SIX EXTERMINATION CAMPS BUILT IN POLAND, LARGEST WAS AUSCHWITZ
EXTERMINATION CAMPS DIVIDED INTO LABOR CAMPS AND DEATH CAMPS
SOME INMATES WERE SUBJECT TO CRUEL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
EVEN LATE IN THE WAR, THE FINAL SOLUTION HAD PRIORITY IN USING RAILWAY CARS TO SHIP JEWS TO DEATH CAMPS

18. The Death Toll Germany killed 6 million Jews during the Holocaust
The Nazi’s were also responsible for the deaths of another 10 million civilians
1.2 million Jewish children died in the Holocaust.
Mothers and children were often the first to be killed.

19. Graphic Organizer/Assessment Prompt 3
World War II

20. Journal
Answer the EQ: What were the M.A.I.N. causes and events of World War II?
Consider the following: What was the Wansee Conference? What did they decide?
What were the Ghettos?
What was the difference between the Death and Concentration Camps?