Term 2

• Nazi Party and Propoganda

  The National Socialist German workers Party called the Nazi Party was Formed in Munich on 5 January 1919

  
  

  - German people had been suffering loss of national pride economic and financial hardship and a feeling of hopelesness

  
  

  -The Nazis offered hope by promising a strong united Germany

  
  

  - The Nazis used a great deal of propoganda

  They spread their ideas throughout Germany

  -with posters heard radio broadcasts, and rallies.

  
  

  -Josef Goebbels was Hitlers Minister of Propaganda
• Extermination Camps


  Camps where the Nazis systematically murdered various ethnic, religious, and national groups during the Holocaust
• Holocaust


  Nazi Germany's systematic genocide of various ethnic, religious, national and other groups during World War II
• Genocide


  Destruction of an entire group of people, such as the Jews
• Final Solution


  Hitler and the Nazis' plan to exterminate the Jewish people
• Deportation to concentration camps


  Jewish people were taken by force to concentration camps
• Very few people came out of concentration camps alive
• Death camps


  Concentration camps where people were systematically murdered
• Treatment in concentration camps

  1. Possessions taken away

  2. Heads shaved

  3. Forced to do hard physical labour

  4. Starved, humiliated and tortured

  5. Children and parents separated
• Methods of murder in concentration camps

  1. Initially shot or beaten to death

  2. Then burnt in large rooms known as crematoria
• Notorious extermination camps


  • Dachau
  • Treblinka
  • Auschwitz
  • Buchenwald
• There were 22 extermination camps
• Superpower


  A country with a powerful position in the world which has the ability to control events and further its own interests
• Japan


  • Wanted to expand its empire in order to be a self-reliant superpower
• Japan's rivals


  America had become a colonial power in the Philippines
• The Tripartite Pact was signed between Germany, Italy and Japan


  1940
• The Tripartite Pact allowed Japan to take positive steps to conquer new territories
• Pearl Harbour attack

  A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, on the morning of 7 December 1941
• The attack was made to keep the American Pacific fleet from interfering with military actions
• Japan launched 353 Japanese fighters, bombers and torpedo planes from six aircraft carriers
• America was caught off guard as there was no declaration of war
• 16 American ships were damaged and destroyed
• 2,402 Americans were killed and 1,282 were wounded
• Japanese losses were light, with 65 servicemen killed and wounded
• THE YALTA CONFERENCE

  Allies fought against the axis powers in World War II

  
  

  - By may 1945

  -Allied powers defeated Italy

  
  

  -The war in Europe ended

  
  

  - At the Yalta Conference before the end of World War II

  -the Allies had decided that when Germany will be defeated

  -it would be divided into four zones
• THE POSTDAM CONFERENCE The conference was held at the end of the war The participants were the -USSR (Soviet Union), Britain and the USA At the conference they decided how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany.
• REPRESENTATIVES AT THE CONFERENCE General Joseph Stalin -stalin insisted that his control of eastern Europe was a defensive measure against future attacks from the West Prime Minister Winston Churchbrill -During the conference there was a general eleclicin in Britain -Charhill's party was defeated Clement Attlee became prime minister Attlee deeply destructed Stalin

  President Harry, s Truman President Rossevelt died just before the end of wwil President Harry Truman then became President - Roosvelt trusted Stalin not to talce over eastern europe
• TESTING OF AN ATOMIC BOMB On July 1945 - The American tested an atomic bomb in New Mexico desert Churchill and Truman decided that the weapon should be used to defeat Japan Truman did not tell Stalin about the bomb 1071909 -It was later known that Stalin already knew about the bomb -Through the KGB (Russian Secret Police) By July 1945 -The postdam declaration to defeat Japan -unless the Japanese government surrendered.
• COMMUNISM (The USSR (East)) The ideology of communism communists do not like rich people controlling all the wealth in a country The belive that the government should rule in the interests of all not the rich wealth should be shared equally between people no one should own a private property make 10 a profit the state owns all large industries and other sources of wealth Communist are usually not democratic Communism became a popular belief amongst poor people over the world
• Capitalism


  The ideology of capitalism
• They believe that there is nothing wrong with some people being rich and others being poor
• Profit motivation


  Motivates people to work harder
• Capitalism


  • Individuals own private properties
  • The government does not control the economy
  • The rights to individuals to own private companies and industries are protected while other people remain poor
• Capitalist governments may be democratic
• Truman strongly opposed the USSR (Soviet Union) from expanding its control over Europe and other parts of the world


  He wanted USA to resist Communism and Limit Soviet expansion
• The whole Tension of the cold war was Capitalism vs. Communism
• The Arms Race


  The competition between the USA and the Soviet Union to develop more powerful and destructive weapons
• The Arms Race was the most serious threat to world peace and Safety
• Nuclear bombs and weapons

  • Like those that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but worse
  • By the 1950s, both USA and USSR developed weapons powerful enough to obliterate one another and the rest of the world
• Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)


  The Arms Race was a race to stay ahead, not to win, as there could never be a winner