Ch.+26+Sections+2-4+World+War+2+and+Its+Aftermath

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= Ch. 26 Sections 2-4 World War II and its Aftermath =

===//Millions of people were forced to labor for the German and Japanese war machine. The Holocaust claimed the lives of millions of Jewish people. The Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including [|ethnic Poles], [|Romani], [|Soviet civilians], [|Soviet prisoners of war], [|people with disabilities], [|homosexuals], [|Jehovah's Witnesses], and other [|political and religious opponents]. By this definition, the total number of [|Holocaust victims] would be between 11 million and 17 million people. //===

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===Holocaust: The Holocaust was a period in WWII history where thousands of jewish people were sent to concentration and death camps. Woman and children were usually the first to go into the gas chambers. Jewish people also had to wear yellow stars to signify they were jewish and because of the Nuremberg laws Jewish people's rights were greatly restricted their rights and freedoms.(charlie sims 3rd hour)=== ===ideological: Ideological is the sense that someone's way of thinking is better than someone elses way of thinking, Like Ideological conflicts between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which lead up to the cold war.(charlie sims 3rd hour)===

Kamikaze: Kamikazes were pilots who would fly their planes in to U.S. fighter ships. These pilots were very glad to be serving their country this way.(Charlie Sims 3rd hour)
===blitz: Blitz is the german word for lightning and Hitler had even called his war blitzkreig. The british called air raids by the germans blitzs. they would go over british towns and cities and bomb civilian targets.(charlie sims 3rd hour)===

===Heinrich Himmler: Heinrich Himmler was in charge of the german resettlement plans during Hitlers reign in germany, which included the uprooting of thousands of Czechs, Polish, Serbo-croation, Slovene, and Ukrainian.(charlie sims 3rd)===

Points to consider:

 * ===German Resettlement===
 * ===Slave Labor in Germany===
 * ===Genocide and the role of the Einsatzgruppen===
 * ===Death Camps===
 * ===The Death Toll===
 * ===Children in the War===
 * ===Japanese Colonial Practice===
 * ===Mobilization in Soviet Union, United States, Germany and Japan===


 * ===Tehran Conference, 1943: at the Tehran Conference the three leaders of the soviet union, Great Britain, and the U.S. met to decide how to make the final assault on Germany. Finally they had set up an American-British invasion through France and would attack Germany on the north south dividing line in germany.(charlie sims 3rd hour)===
 * ===Yalta Conference, 1944===
 * ===Postdam Conference, 1945===

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In this section, please post pictures and links that illustrate the effect of the World War II
Here are some women and children being sent to the gas chambers in Auschwitz.(charlie sims 3rd hour) ) Gas Chamber at Auschwitz (Alex Seal 5th hourCrematorium at Auschwitz (Alex Seal 5th hour)

Thanx Charlie +8 Thanx Alex +2