History Wk 6-10

• The Manhattan Project was the code name for a secret American effort to create a bomb using nuclear energy during WW
• America dropped two atomic bombs on Japan that ended the war; first, at Hiroshima and second, at Nagasaki
• The Holocaust was the systematic mass slaughter of 6 million European Jews in Nazi Germany between 1933-1945
• The Nazis sought to create a racial state to protect the "Aryan race"
• Nazi's antisemitic laws increased as time went on
• Kristallnacht (Night of broken glass) was the night of 9th-10th November 1938. Jewish communities across Germany and Austria were attacked
• Ghetto is an area of a town or city in certain parts of Europe in which Jews were interned by the Nazis during the Second World War
• Final Solution was the systematic attempt by Nazis to murder every Jewish man, women, and child
• Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest killing site of the Holocaust and an example of an extermination and concentration camp
• Amidah is a Hebrew word that means 'standing up against and was used to describe Jewish resistance during WWII
• The Warsaw uprising was an example of Jewish military resistance during WWII led by Dvio Lubetkin
• People in Nazi Europe

  • Perpetrators
  • Collaborators
  • Bystanders
  • Resistors
• The French town Le Chambon-sur-Ugnon provided refuge for thousands of Jews during WWII
• Liberators & those liberated felt a variety of complex emotions following the liberation of concentration camps
• The Nuremberg trial was held from 1945-1949 where leading Nazi figures were tried for crimes against humanity
• The Great Depression was caused by the Wall Street Crash, which led to widespread unemployment and poverty.
• The New Deal in America included programs like Social Security, public works projects, and agricultural subsidies.
• Hitler's rise to power was due to his charisma, propaganda, and exploitation of economic hardship.
• Nazi ideology included anti-Semitism, eugenics, and the belief that Germany needed Lebensraum (living space).
• The Holocaust involved the systematic persecution and murder of millions of people, including Jews, Roma, homosexuals, disabled individuals, and political opponents.
• FDR's foreign policy focused on isolationism but he did support Britain with Lend-Lease Act.
• The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of over six million Jewish people and other minority groups.