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WW II
I.People/ Vocabulary
2. Hidaki Tojo- prime minister of Japan when the attack on Pearl Harbor took
place
5. Berlin Wall- was built because of the Cold War( USA Vs. Russia) in 1961. In
1999 was destroyed.
1. Dates of the war- The war started in Sep 1, 1939 Sep 2, 1945
o Cold War- fought mostly with words and ideas rather than with
soldiers and weapons.
o World War 2-
Effect: USA joined the war in both Pacific and in Europe. US helped the
Allies, and began to win important battles in North America and on the Italian
Pennsula.
The Japanese destroyed ships, airplanes and many people died. Franlikn D
Roosevelt was the president of the US and declared war in the Axis Power,
joining the team of the Allies.
3. Teams of War
4. Holocaust
Causes: Hitler put a plan into action to get rid of all people he felt were inferior
like Jews, Gypsies, persons with disabilities and opponents of the Nazy party.
Effects: Nazi leaders developed the Final Solution to the Jewish problem. This
was the genocide, killing of an entire group of people. 6 million Jews and other 6
million non-Jews were killed.
5. Anne Frank story-Anne Franks family were Jew and to hide from
the Nazis her family fled from Germany to Amsterdam, a city in
Netherlands. Then they knew that Germans started sending Jews in
Amsterdam to concentration camps so the Franks hid in rooms above
their family business. Anne had a diary of her life in hiding. After 2
years and 1 month the Franks were discovered and sent to
concentration camps, where Anne, her sister Margarette, and her
mother Edith died, and his father Otto Frank survived because some
people rescued him.