WW2

What are the European and Pacific Theaters of WW2?

1) What happens when Germany invades Poland?

• Hitler betrays Munich Conference and invades Poland
• Hitler claims Poland is apart of the "Rhineland" or land that belongs to Germany
• France and England declares war on Germany and the Axis powers
• Germany begins to export Jews from the "Ghettos" into concentration camps

2) What are the competing sides in WW2?

3) What and why does Stalingrad happen?

• Hitler betrays Stalin and invades (Soviet Union) Russia confident he can win on a Western and Eastern battlefront
• The Soviet Union defeats Hitler and the war starts turning in favor of Allies

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-stalingrad/videos

4) What and why is D- Day?

• America enters the European theater after the attack on Pearl Harbor
• United States enters the Western front through Normandy France on D- Day
• (France had been occupied by Germany for 3 years)
• The supplies, troops, and strategy made the Western front more of a threat to the Third Reich

5) What is discovered in concentration/ Extermination camps?

• Using trains Jews were transported into concentration or extermination camps
• Jews were used for labor or were victums of the Final Solution - a strategy to kill as many Jews and/ or undesriables as possible
• Auschwitz is the most famous camp, particulary for it's use of Gas Chambers (an alternative to gun fire genocide)
• Genocide- killing a mass amount of people because of their religion, race, gender, sexual orientation...

What does it mean when one says the Holocaust was the worst genocide in hman history?