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World War II

World War II. Learning Targets. I can describe the impact of World War II on Georgia’s development economically, socially, and politically. I can describe the impact of events leading up to American involvement in World War II to include Lend-Lease and the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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World War II

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  1. World War II

  2. Learning Targets • I can describe the impact of World War II on Georgia’s development economically, socially, and politically. • I can describe the impact of events leading up to American involvement in World War II to include Lend-Lease and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. • I can evaluate the importance of Bell Aircraft, military bases, the Savannah and Brunswick shipyards, and Carl Vinson. • I can explain the impact of the Holocaust on Georgians. • I can discuss the ties to Georgia that President Roosevelt had and his impact on the state.

  3. Allied Troops Enter • In the Spring of 1945, as Allied troops pushed into Poland, Austria, and Germany, nothing could have prepared them for what they found...

  4. Holocaust • Name given to the systematic extermination (killing) of 6 million Jews. • An additional 5 – 6 million people, labeled “undesireables” were also killed by the Nazis. • Planned to destroy all Jews because they believed the Jews were inferior and destructive in purity of the German people. • Still remains the largest genocide (deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group) in human history.

  5. Concentration (Labor) Camps • When the German army entered a city, they herded the Jewish people into trucks or railroad cars and took them to work in labor camps. • They were forced to make supplies for the German army.

  6. Branded • Those who survived the German concentration camps had a daily reminder of the horrors they experienced... A number branded into their arms.

  7. Concentration Camps • People who were sick or unable to work were killed immediately . • Many others died in these camps from the hard work and poor living conditions.

  8. Many Were Murdered • Systematically murdered in gas chambers, firing squads, and in other inhuman ways. Prisoners were gassed in chambers they thought were showers.

  9. Their bodies were incinerated in huge ovens or thrown into mass graves. • The deaths of these Jews, Poles, Czechs, Russians, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally or physically disabled all fit Hitler’s plan to rid Europe of what he called “inferior” people.

  10. Some Survived • Battled Disease, Starvation, Mistreatment, Medical Experiments and Brutal Conditions

  11. Holocaust Survivors • After being rescued, many homeless Holocaust survivors migrated westward to territories. • Jewish agencies helped the survivors with food, clothing and vocational training. • Many migrated to Israel and the United States.

  12. Reaction in the US • In the 1940s, news did not travel as fast as it does today. • People in the US did not know about the Holocaust until the end of the war.

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