Watch one of the following movies (or one approved by Ms. G.
Write a 1-2 page minimum essay that includes:
- a summary of the movies
- ways the movie was historically accurate
- ways the movie was inaccurate
List of films
Windtalkers
Band of Brothers (pick an episode)
Flags of Our Fathers
The Desert Fox
The Great Escape
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Enemy at the Gates
Monuments Men
Schindler's List
The Pianist
Stalingrad
Pearl Harbor
Defiance
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
Memphis Belle
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Friday, March 18, 2016
11-2 New Order & the Holocaust
The New Order
By 1942 Germany controlled most of Europe
2 kinds of control:
Direct control = annexation
These areas, like Poland, became part of Germany
Occupation = German military (SS) + local supporters keep control over the area
Remember, Hitler's goal was to create a perfect Aryan state
He viewed many different types of people as inferior and unfit to be part of this empire.
This included the Slavic people, who lived in Poland, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, and the rest of Eastern Europe.
As Hitler took over, he moved these people from their land into concentration camps & farms to be used as slave labor
As Hitler took over, he moved these people from their land into concentration camps & farms to be used as slave labor
He moved Germans in to populate these areas
Other Groups Hitler didn’t feel were good enough to be in his Empire
Jews
Gypsies (Romany)
Slavic People
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Homosexuals
The Mentally Handicapped
Socialists
These are the groups that ended up in Nazi camps
Hitler, with many other Germans, blamed the democrats, the radicals, the communists, the liberals, and the Jews for Germany losing the war in 1918.
Those who signed the surrender papers and the Versailles Treaty and set up the Weimar Republic were traitors.
Hitler accused the Jews of trying to destroy his Aryan Nation
To remove the “threat” that the Jews posed, Hitler and his top officials came up with a plan that would later be known as the “Final Solution”
What was the final solution?
Genocide
It was not an overnight decision, but one that evolved slowly over time
Step 1: the Ghettos
In Poland, all Jewish people were taken from their homes and placed in specific areas of the city known as ghettos.
separated from the rest of the city by fences of barbed wire or walls
They were not allowed to leave exept to work (under supervision) and got very little supplies
Life in the Ghetto
People lived in cramped quarters
Many Jews died from starvation
diseases such as typhoid and tuberculosis lead to many deaths
Any Jew attempting to leave the ghetto was shot.
They began to give away their clothing in exchange for food.
To survive, the Jews resorted to smuggling food into the ghetto through the black market.
Step 2: Einsatzgruppen
The SS created the Einsatzgruppen, a special military unit that was responsible for following the army through Eastern Europe & Russia
They rounded up the Jews in each town together and shot them.
Step 3: The Camps
All over Eastern Europe and within Germany, the Nazis set up concentration camps, labor camps where the prisoners were used as workers in factories and performed other jobs.
Who was in these camps?
Political prisoners
P.O.W.s
Communists & socialists
All other targeted groups
In Poland, 6 special camps were set up.
These were death camps, specially made to kill people.
When the ghettos were emptied towards the end of the war, this is where the are sent
The camps:
Chelmno
Auschwitz II
Treblinka II
Majdanek
Belzec
Sobibor
The Death Toll
6 million Jews
40% of the Gypsy population in Europe (400,000)
4 million Eastern Europeans
3-4 million Russian prisoners of war (P.O.W.s)
Total: around 13 million people died in the concentration & death camps
Resistance
There were people that took a stand and fought back against the Nazis
In the ghettos, the people held uprisings
Most famous: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The largest single revolt during the war
The people in the Warsaw ghetto held off soldiers for almost a month in 1943 when the Nazis were trying to ship them all off to Treblinka
Resistance fighters who fought back against the Nazis throughout Russia, Poland, Italy, France, and Eastern Europe
They used guerrilla tactics
Lived in the woods
Attacked rail cars, shipping convoys, destroyed railroad tracks
Mussolini was killed by partisans
Some people hid Jews from the Nazis
Others helped them escape to other countries
New Order in Japan
Japan took over Southeast Asia and created the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
They put the military in charge in every country they took over
The native people were treated very badly
Forced to work for the Japanese
Their food was given to the soldiers so they starved
Their traditions were ignored
Many died
Kids in WWII
In England, when the bombing started, a lot of kids were sent to the US
In Germany & England, many kids were sent to the countryside to avoid the bombing of cities
In the camps, children were the first killed
Many kids became soldiers, as young as 13
By 1942 Germany controlled most of Europe
2 kinds of control:
Direct control = annexation
These areas, like Poland, became part of Germany
Occupation = German military (SS) + local supporters keep control over the area
Remember, Hitler's goal was to create a perfect Aryan state
He viewed many different types of people as inferior and unfit to be part of this empire.
This included the Slavic people, who lived in Poland, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, and the rest of Eastern Europe.
As Hitler took over, he moved these people from their land into concentration camps & farms to be used as slave labor
As Hitler took over, he moved these people from their land into concentration camps & farms to be used as slave labor
He moved Germans in to populate these areas
Other Groups Hitler didn’t feel were good enough to be in his Empire
Jews
Gypsies (Romany)
Slavic People
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Homosexuals
The Mentally Handicapped
Socialists
These are the groups that ended up in Nazi camps
Hitler, with many other Germans, blamed the democrats, the radicals, the communists, the liberals, and the Jews for Germany losing the war in 1918.
Those who signed the surrender papers and the Versailles Treaty and set up the Weimar Republic were traitors.
Hitler accused the Jews of trying to destroy his Aryan Nation
To remove the “threat” that the Jews posed, Hitler and his top officials came up with a plan that would later be known as the “Final Solution”
What was the final solution?
Genocide
It was not an overnight decision, but one that evolved slowly over time
Step 1: the Ghettos
In Poland, all Jewish people were taken from their homes and placed in specific areas of the city known as ghettos.
separated from the rest of the city by fences of barbed wire or walls
They were not allowed to leave exept to work (under supervision) and got very little supplies
Life in the Ghetto
People lived in cramped quarters
Many Jews died from starvation
diseases such as typhoid and tuberculosis lead to many deaths
Any Jew attempting to leave the ghetto was shot.
They began to give away their clothing in exchange for food.
To survive, the Jews resorted to smuggling food into the ghetto through the black market.
Step 2: Einsatzgruppen
The SS created the Einsatzgruppen, a special military unit that was responsible for following the army through Eastern Europe & Russia
They rounded up the Jews in each town together and shot them.
Step 3: The Camps
All over Eastern Europe and within Germany, the Nazis set up concentration camps, labor camps where the prisoners were used as workers in factories and performed other jobs.
Who was in these camps?
Political prisoners
P.O.W.s
Communists & socialists
All other targeted groups
In Poland, 6 special camps were set up.
These were death camps, specially made to kill people.
When the ghettos were emptied towards the end of the war, this is where the are sent
The camps:
Chelmno
Auschwitz II
Treblinka II
Majdanek
Belzec
Sobibor
The Death Toll
6 million Jews
40% of the Gypsy population in Europe (400,000)
4 million Eastern Europeans
3-4 million Russian prisoners of war (P.O.W.s)
Total: around 13 million people died in the concentration & death camps
Resistance
There were people that took a stand and fought back against the Nazis
In the ghettos, the people held uprisings
Most famous: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The largest single revolt during the war
The people in the Warsaw ghetto held off soldiers for almost a month in 1943 when the Nazis were trying to ship them all off to Treblinka
Resistance fighters who fought back against the Nazis throughout Russia, Poland, Italy, France, and Eastern Europe
They used guerrilla tactics
Lived in the woods
Attacked rail cars, shipping convoys, destroyed railroad tracks
Mussolini was killed by partisans
Some people hid Jews from the Nazis
Others helped them escape to other countries
New Order in Japan
Japan took over Southeast Asia and created the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
They put the military in charge in every country they took over
The native people were treated very badly
Forced to work for the Japanese
Their food was given to the soldiers so they starved
Their traditions were ignored
Many died
Kids in WWII
In England, when the bombing started, a lot of kids were sent to the US
In Germany & England, many kids were sent to the countryside to avoid the bombing of cities
In the camps, children were the first killed
Many kids became soldiers, as young as 13
Thursday, March 17, 2016
World War II timeline
1939
• SEPTEMBER
– 1st: Germany invades Poland
– 3rd: England &France
– 17: Russia invades Poland
– 28: Stalin&Hitler split Poland
• NOVEMBER
– 30th: USSR invades Finland
• PHONY WAR (9/39-4/40)
– Besides the invasion of Poland
Blitzkrieg
– “Lightning War”
– Germany
– Used to invade & conquer countries quickly using speed and surprise
– Tanks, in columns, supported by mobile infantry and air units
– Armored columns called Panzer divisions rolled in; dive bombers and other planes provided support
1940
• APRIL
– Germany invades Denmark and Norway
• MAY
– Blitzkrieg used against Poland , Belgium , and France
• WESTERN OFFENSIVE
– Maginot Line
– Dunkirk
• JUNE
– Mussolini declares war on the Allies
– France signs cease fire with Germany
• Vichy France vs Free France
• JULY
– US stops shipment of materials to Japan
– Battle of Britain
• Luftwaffe attacks, Britain
• Battle of Britain
– Germany
– When that didn’t work, they switched to cities, hoping that the people would get defeated.
– This gave the British time to rebuild their air force, which allowed them to attack Germany
• AUGUST
– Italy invades Somalia
• SEPTEMBER
– Italy invades Egypt
– Germany , Italy , and Japan
• OCTOBER
– Italy invades Greece
• NOVEMBER
– British air force bombs Hamburg
1941
• MARCH
– Bulgaria
– Britain
– Desert War begins
• Erwin Rommel (“Desert Fox”)
• APRIL
– Germany , Italy and Bulgaria invade Yugoslavia
– Japan signs non-aggression pact with Russia
• JUNE
– Allies invade Syria
– Finland & Hungary declare war on USSR
– Operation Barbarossa
• JULY
– USSR & England sign mutual assistance treaty (against Germany
• DECEMBER
– Britain declares war on Finland , Hungary , and Romania
– Pearl Harbor
• December 7, 1941
• Japan attacks US fleet in Hawaii
• Kamikaze pilots are used
• At the same time, Japan invades Lalaya , Thailand , Philippines , & Burma
• The spark that causes the US to declare war on Japan
•
• Operation Barbarossa
• 3 million German soldiers and tanks were sent into Russia
• Violates the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
• Beginning of the Eastern Front Conflict
• Sends Stalin to the Allies
1942
• FEBRUARY
– US sets up internment camps for Japanese Americans
– Japan takes control of Singapore and bombs Australia
• APRIL
– US bombs Tokyo
– Luftwaffe begins 2nd bombing of Britain
• MAY
– Battle of Coral Sea (US vs Japan
• JUNE
– Battle of Midway (US vs Japan
• Turning point of the war in the Pacific
• AUGUST
– 1st use of the Navajo code
• OCTOBER
– Battle of El Alamein
• NOVEMBER
– Battle of Stalingrad (11/42 – 2/43)
• Ends German hope of conquering USSR
• Turning point of the war in Europe
• FALL
– US
1943
• JANUARY
– Allies take Tripoli
• FEBRUARY
– Allies begin bombing Germany
• JULY
– Allies invade Sicily
– Italy
• Mussolini jailed, Victor Emmanuel becomes king again
• Italy
• NOVEMBER
– TEHRAN
• Meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill to plan the Final attack on Germany
• British start bombing of Berlin
1944
• Germany sends the army in to retake Italy Rome
• JUNE
– The allies free Rome
– D-DAY (Invasion of Normandy
• June 6
• JULY
– The Red Army pushes the Germans back through Russia
• AUGUST
– US army frees Paris
• SEPTEMBER
– Allies enter Germany
• OCTOBER
– Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt meet in Moscow
1945
• FEBRUARY
– Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt meet at Yalta
– Bombing of Dresden
– Battle of Iwo Jima
• APRIL
– Roosevelt dies and Harry S. Truman becomes the next president
– Mussolini is executed by Italian Partisans
– German forces in Italy
– Hitler Commits suicide
• MAY
– German troops in Czech, Holland , & Denmark
– 5/7 Germany
• End of the war in Europe
• AUGUST
– 8/6 US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
– 8/8 Russia declares war on Japan and invades Manchuria
– 8/9 US drops bomb on Nagasaki
– 8/14 Japan
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