Holocaust UNIT

By Nixon

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Germany had to lose land, lose military, and pay back money to winners.

  • Hyper inflation

    when prices get out of control.
    price of bread in Germany: 1920 - 2.37 1921 - 3.90 1922 - 163.15 January - 1923 250 marks, April 1923, July- 3,465, august - 69,000, Sep - 1.512, Oct, 1.743 billion, Nov, - 201 billion, Dec - 399 billion.

  • beerball putsch

    Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government.
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    Republic style gov.

    the president was a popular war hero named Hindenburg

  • Hitler on trail

    Hitler uses the trail to give a huge speech further blaming Jews for problems of Germany; he was later put in "jail" for 9 months. While he would of got the death penalty, but he gave the speech
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    Great depression

    1. bad economy
    2. Angry people

  • Anne frank is born

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    1. Eliminate political rivals to be head of Nazis
    2. rising popularity of Nazis forces Hindenburg to give him some power
    3. not full power, he is 3rd
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    Holocaust

    Hitler started taking away Jewish rights slowly, then it became something a little more.... Serious. Jewish civilians and other "undesirables" were taken to concentration camps and death camps

  • Reich-stag fire of February 1933

    Hitler blames communists for fire

  • Enabling act of march 1933

    Hindenburg -Basically gives power of decision making to Hitler

    -Within a few months all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated
    - this allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals

  • Nuremberg Laws

  • kristallnacht

    Referred as the night of broken glass. It was where people went out in the night and destroyed Jewish households. This is when it got serious.

  • Euthanasia program

    Systemically killing those deemed "unworthy of life" due to physical disability or mental illness.

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Ghetto's

  • First test zyklon B

    First experiment with zyklon b. doesn't really use until 1943

  • First death camp

    1941
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    Einsatzgruppen

    Mobile killing squads. As the army advanced the groups would round up Jews then kill them by shooting

  • Wannsee confrence

    Nazi leaders approve the "final solution" or plan to exterminate the Jews.
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    Camp rebellions

    Prisoner's stole weapons weapons from guards, then tried to escape. most were killed but a few dozen made it out and survived the war.

  • Warsaw ghetto uprising

    -Residents smuggled weapons in
    -Uprising lasted for about a month
    -SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended.
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    Death marches

  • Auschwitz-Birkenau

    members of the sonderkommando working in the crematorium fought SS guards killing over 70, but all 250 as well as 200 others were killed in response.

  • End of war/Hitler dies

    Hitler commits suicide rather than face capture by soviets. Germany surrenders within a week. Ends may 8th

  • liberation of concentration camps

  • Liberation

    camps throughout Europe are liberated by allied forces. then ironically sent to a another camp, but with better conditions.
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    Nuremberg Trials

    International community put a number of Germans on trail for war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
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    What happened to the survivors

    Displaced persons camps - areas for former prisoners to stay while searching for family and a permanent home.

  • Emigration

    Jews emigrate from their homes after they get back from the camps. Most went to isreal