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1. NVC

2. Wrap up Holocaust

3. The Aggression of Fascist Japan– The Invasion of Nanking

Essential Question: What happened during the Japanese attack on Nanking?Homework: complete Nanking Inquiry

Holocaust Warm-Up

• Provide a short description of the following terms…– Deicide– Pogrom– Nuremberg Laws– Night of the Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)– Ghettos

Legacy• 11 Million people killed– 6 million Jews– 2.5 million Poles

• Nuremberg Trials– Military trials by Allies to

prosecute Nazis for war crimes

– Birth of international criminal law and crimes against humanity

Misconceptions about the Holocaust

• Only Jews were killed– Gypsies (Roma)– Communists– Homosexuals– Intellectuals– Disabled People– Non-Europeans

• No one resisted– "Many people think the

Jews went to their deaths like sheep to the slaughter, and that's not true—it's absolutely not true. I worked closely with many Jewish people in the Resistance, and I can tell you, they took much greater risks than I did.“—Pieter Meerburg

Rise of Fascism in Japan• 1932 Militarists led by take

control of Japanese government– Reaction to the Great

Depression

• “Militarism” = Japanese Fascism– Aggressive Imperialism: fix

economic problems by conquering new lands

– Extreme Nationalism: Japanese Yamato Race on a “Divine Mission” to conquer all of Asia

The Sino-Japanese War

• 1936 Japan launches invasion of China

• 1937 Japan attacks Nanking (aka Nanjing)– Capitol city of China– What happened during

the Japanese attack on Nanking?

Journal Entry: Nanking

• Historians have come up with many names for the Japanese attack on Nanking. They include the Nanking Incident, the Nanking Massacre, the Invasion of Nanking, and the Rape of Nanking. What DO YOU think historians should call the Japanese attack on Nanking? Choose one of the above, or CREATE YOUR OWN NAME! 1/2 page expectation, justify your name using evidence from the documents (you do not need quotes, descriptions of details are fine)