Happy Monday! Please get out your notebook to finish WWII notes! WWII and the Holocaust 8 th Grade Ga Studies Unit 6 Standard 9 a-d WORLD WAR II HOW DID WE END UP IN WORLD WAR AGAIN? THE STEPS TO WAR: 1. THE GREAT DEPRESSION - AMERICA WAS NOT THE ONLY DEPRESSED NATION IN THE 1930S. THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS WORLD WIDE. LIKE AMERICANS, OTHER COUNTRIES TURNED TO THEIR GOVERNMENTS FOR HELP. WHEN SOME GOVERNMENTS WERE UNABLE TO HELP, THEY TURNED TO THE PROMISES OF MEN WHO SAID THEY HAD THE ANSWERS THESE MEN WERE DICTATORS. Axis Powers THE GERMANS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TOOK THEM TO A MADMAN NAMED ADOLF HITLER. THE ITALIANS TURNED TO THIS MAN, BENITO MUSSOLINI. JAPAN WAS USED TO LIFE UNDER STRICT RULE BY AN EMPEROR. HIS NAME WAS HIROHITO. Allied Powers Russia, USA, Great Britain FDR, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill Harry Truman, Stalin and Churchill US Involvement Isolationism: US belief/strategy to keep to itself- not involve itself in world issues and affairs. US saw it as the European War Stayed out of WWII for quite awhile- (until the bombing at Pearl Harbor) Lend Lease Act FDR and Congress passed act to be able to lend war materials to countries that were important to our interests. (The Allied Powers) In return we built military bases on their lands Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Brought US into the war- became part of the ALLIES Over 2,300 killed and 19 ships destroyed A date which will live in infamy---FDR Georgia and World War II 1940-still in depression, most still work on farms War Effort: ,000 Servicemen/women (7,000 died) 2-Manufacturing/War Supplies 3-Military Training Bases 4-Crops and Supplies 5-Support from political leaders Economy Improves! Products moved by Trains and Ships Bell Aircraft Company Marietta, GA 1943 Largest aircraft assembly plant in world Built B-29 bombers (660 of them) Now Lockheed Martin Liberty Ships Brunswick and Savannah 187 built Employed men and WOMEN Quickly built, assembly line throwaways, ugly ducklings Cargo ships- supplies, men, weapons Military Bases GA and Texas had the most training facilities Camp Stewart(anit-aircraft unit/live ammunition) Camp Gordon (largest communication center) Fort Benning (largest infantry training base) Warner Robbins (Air Force) Southern Fields (German POW camp) Carl Vinson (longest serving Member of the US House of Rep.) -created the Army Air Corp. which would become the U.S. Air Force. -AKA Father of the Two Ocean Navy Richard Russell (Governor and US Senator) -Built US fighting force up from 174,000 in 1939 to 6,000,000 in They both spearheaded efforts to bring active military training bases to Georgia which in turn created jobs for Georgians. Holocaust (the burning) Hitlers answer to Germanys Jewish Problem Genocide: systematic killing of a people group 6million killed (Jews, Catholics, homosexuals, gypsies, etc) Victims sent to Concentration Camps (work camps) or Death Camps Hell's Gate The main entrance to Birkenau viewed from the unloading ramp. Inside the collapsed roof of Krematorium II at Birkenau, blown up by the Nazis before the evacuation of the camp. Outside, is a path from the women's camp, one barracks of which can be seen beyond the trees. Krematoria II and III were the largest gasssing and cremation facilities in the entire Nazi universe. They were the very heart of what survivor/author Erik Kulka calls "The Death Factory". Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one day's collection at the peak of the gassings, about twenty five thousand pairs. Shoes A camp mortuary was used as the gassing room of Crematorium I. Victims entered through the far door. Horizontal and vertical discolorizations are evidence of interior walls having once been in place. To this day, traces of poison gas precipitate can be detected by analysis of concrete samples Two of the three double-muffle furnaces of Crematorium I. The third is no longer in place. At left are the remnants of charging trolleys, including the corpse caddies. Trolley track is visible in the foreground. The fence line to the right of the main gate. The blocks are visible beyond the fence. Short concrete posts on each side of the primary fence mark the warning line. Wire strung along the posts gave rise to the prisoners' idea of a triple fence line. Guards and dogs patrolled the perimeter on the gravel walkway between the runs of electrified barbed wire. PRISONERS LATRINE Ash Pool at Crematorium II At Auschwitz-Birkenau there were ash pools near crematoria II,III,IV,and V which were used to dispose of the human ashes. Frieda Radasky holds the arm of her husband, Solomon Radasky, next to the tattoo of his Auschwitz registration number, The numerals add up to 18 which forms the word "life" in Hebrew. Mr. Radasky worked near the crematoria hauling sand to spread over the ashes of the dead. The Auschwitz numbers ran from 1 to over 202,000. Those selected for death were not registered in the camp and did not receive numbers.Auschwitz PRISONER UNIFORM A member of Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew, who is forced to kneel before a mass grave full of other victimsEinsatzgruppe Photo of wounds left by a medical experiment. The victim had been burned with phosphorous so that medicaments could be tested Holocaust in Georgia Many Holocaust victims came to Georgia Governor Harris created the Commission on the Holocaust to educate Georgians FDR Visited GA often Warm Springs (The Little White House) Swam in the springs to help with his disease (polio)] Respected by Georgians b/c of New Deal Died at Warm Springs after a stroke in April 1945 How did Georgia contribute to WWII?