PJs - World War 2

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1943 Surrender at Stalingrad marks Germany's first major

defeat. Allied victory in North Africa enables invasion of Italy

to be launched. Italy surrenders, but Germany takes over the battle. British and Indian forces fight Japanese in Burma.

1944 Allies land at Anzio and bomb monastery at Monte

Cassino. Soviet offensive gathers pace in Eastern Europe.

D Day: The Allied invasion of France. Paris isliberated in August. Guam liberated by the US Okinawa, and Iwo Jima

bombed.

1945

Auschwitz liberated by Soviet troops. Russians reach Berlin: Hitler commits suicide andGermany surrenders on 7 May. Truman becomes President of the US onRoosevelt's death, and Attlee replaces Churchill. After atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima andNagasaki, Japan surrenders on 14th August.

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Looking at the above evidence how many yearsdid the war last?

Here is a map of the alliances, enemies andneutral lands during this war.


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Who were the allies?Who were the enemies?Who was in the neutral territory?

The World at War and the Text.

The boy in the Striped Pyjamas was set during a horrificera in world history. This section contains definitions thatare relevant in a discussion of that time period.

Copy these definitions and their meaning into your jotter.You may have to refer to these if you forget what theymean.

Definitions:

Concentration camps: Prisons set up by German Nazis

where Jews and other people considered undesirablewere starved, tortured, killed, or left to die of disease.


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Discrimination: treating people differently because theybelong to a certain race, religion, gender, or other group.

Gas Chambers: buildings constructed to allow

poisonous gas to be used for the extermination of Jewsand others during the Holocaust.

Genocide: the intentional killing of people who belong toa particular race, religion, culture, or other group.

Holocaust: refers to the mass killing by German Nazis ofsix million Jews in Europe during World War 2.

Prejudice: biased attitude toward individuals basedsolely on their race, religion, nationality, or othercharacteristic.

Propaganda: information purposely distorted to swaypeoples thinking in a particular direction.

Shoah: the Hebrew word for tragedy that is used to

refer to the Holocaust.

Fatherland: is the nation of one's "fathers","forefathers" or "patriarchs"(head of the family/group).It can be viewed as a nationalist concept, insofar as itrelates to nations. German Nazis believed they couldcreate a new Fatherland made up of blonde haired andblue eyed people.

Auschwitz:a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in SouthWestern Poland during World War 2.
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The entrance to Auschwitz. The gate reads Work will set youfree.

Boy in theStriped

Pyjamas


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and WorldWar 2

Who were theNazis?

A man named Adolf Hitler formed a party named theNazis. They were all members of the National SocialistParty in Germany. This party came together about 1920by a group of men (including Adolf Hitler). Hitler rose toleadership of the party, and then became the Fuehrer ofall Germany in 1933. His dictatorship lasted 12 yearsuntil the end of WW2. He wasn't very nice and had a

specific idea of the 'perfect' person. If he didn't likesomebody (often Jews), he would see to them dead. He


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committed suicide with his wife, Eva Braum, on April 30,1945.

Nazi FlagAdolf Hitler

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