1. The 'master race'. Germans considered themselves Aryans. All non-Aryans, especially Jews, considered inferior. 2.

The Holocaust was the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups juged inferior by the Nazis. 3. Germans blamed their defeat in World War I and the economic problems that followed on the Jews. 4. A set of laws passed in 1935 depriving Jew of their rights to German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and non-Jews. 5. A 17 year old boy named Herschel Grynszpan was in Paris, while he was there he got a postcard saying his dad was deported to Poland. To avenge his father he shot and killed a German diplomat living in Paris. 6. Know also as "Night of Broken Glass", Kristallnacht was when Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany; murdering more than 100 Jews. 7. Hitlers original plan to the Jewish Problem was emigration, deporting Jews to other countries. The problem was no other countries wanted to take them after tens of thousands had been already deported from Germany. 8. They did not want them either since they already had large amounts of Jews in their country due to emigration of the past. 9. By creating ghettos for the Jews, they hoped that they would starve to death or die from disease in these segregated areas. 10. The reason Hitler choose Poland to put his ghetto policy for the Jews was because of the harsh weather. Poland is known for its cold temperatures. 11. Jews were able to hold on by making secret schools and resistance organizations. Putting on plays at theatres and trying to stay alive. 12. Hitlers Final Solution was a program of genocide. 13. Genocide means the systematic killing of an entire people. 14. The Final Solution targeted other ethnic groups (besides Jews) such as Gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the disabled, and the incurably ill. 15. The conditions of concentration camps were horrid. Worked 7 days a week, were cruelly beaten. Rationed food, very little. 16. The Final Solution reached its last stage in 1942.

17. When prisoners first arrived at the concentration camp Auschwitz doctors would judge the prisoners. If they were considered weak, sick, or elderly they would die that day from gas showers. 18. The ones chosen to die were executed by a gas shower. 19. Over 6 million Jews died in concentration camps. 20. Non-Jewish people helped aid Jews by hiding them in their houses until they could escape to a neutral country. These people were putting them and their families lives in great danger.

1. Churchill and Roosevelt met in December of 1941 to develop a joint war policy.

2. Stalin asked the Allies to make another front on the Western side of Germany in order to split his army in half, and relieve pressure from the Russian front. 3. The purpose of the joint war policy between the Allies and Russia was to weaken and divide Germany so the war could be ended by Germanys defeat. 4. Stalin was upset with Churchills strategy because it did not help Russia directly. Stalin wanted the Allies to attack in France, but instead Churchill wanted to attack in North Africa and the Mediterranean. 5. The Allies began to turn the tides of World War I in North Africa and the Mediterranean. 6. The German General in North Africa was Gen. Erwin Rommel. 7. The General that the British sent to North Africa was General Bernard Montgomery. 8. The General that the United States sent to North Africa was General Dwight Eisenhower. 9. The result of the North African campaign led to the defeat of German General Rommels Afrika Korps. 10. The Germans suffered great defeats in the Soviet Union because of their harsh winters. 11. Hitler ordered General Paulus to seize the oil fields in the Caucasus Mountains and also take over the Soviets city Stalingrad. 12. Stalin ordered his soldiers in Stalingrad to hold their ground till the death since that was his city. 13. The outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad was good for the Soviets. The Germans lost more then 1 million men. 14. The weaker army on its own territory knows their way around unlike the bigger/stronger army that are visitors. 15. The conquest of Sicily toppled Mussolini from power in Italy.

16. On July 25, King Victor had the dictator arrested. On September 3, Italy surrendered. German then took over northern Italy and put Mussolini back into power. Allies entered Rome on June 4, 1944. Fighting in Italy continued until Germany fell in May 1945. On April 17, 1945, Italian resistance fighters ambushed some German trucks in Milan. Inside one of the trucks they found Mussolini disgusted as a German soldier. They shot him the next day and hung his body.

17. The Americans produced supplies such as weapons and equipment that would help in the war. 18. A shortage hit the US for consumer goods. The government begun to ration items such as meats and sugars. 19. Children in the US contributed to the war effort by saving pennies to by war bonds and war stamps. 20. The majority of Japanese Americans lived in relocation camps due to the possibility of the Japanese being enemies to the past attack like Pearl Harbor. 21. Japanese Americans were imprisoned because of the threat they held due to Pearl Harbor attacks. 22. The Japanese Americans were shipped to relocation camps were they could only leave if they joined the US military. 23. The Allies were planning and building a invasion force in Great Britain and was planned to launch an attack across the English channel. 24. The invasion in 1944 took place on the coast of Normandy. 25. The date of the invasion was June 6, 1944. Known as D-Day. 26. The codename for D-Day was Operation Overlord. 27. The Germans were prepared for the battle by digging machine guns into the beach sand, and having cannons and rocket launchers at hand. 28. After defeating Saint-Lo the US Third Army marched into Paris. 29. Hitler was faced with a war on 2 fronts because there were Allied powers in the west (France) and Soviets in the east. 30. Hitlers reasoning was This battle is to decide whether we live or die... All resistance must be broken in a wave of terror. 31.