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GermanyCreated byMr. Raponi

Objectives

Students will be able to discuss Adolf Hitler and the effect he had on World History.

Students will be able to discuss the Holocaust.

Students will be able to discuss the separation of Germany into two separate countries after World War II.

Germany

U.K.

Ireland

France

Who is This?

What can you tell

about this man, and

this symbol before we

begin.

The Edmonton Swastikas Hockey Team, 1916.

A brass promotional watch fob from the 1920’s.

Dark Times in German History During the 1930’s,

dictator

__________________had power in Germany.

Under his power and leadership, Germany increased its power and began invading neighboring countries to start World War II.

Where do you think that this poster was created?

What is it showing?

World War II was fought between two sides

What do we see in this picture?

A Tragedy in History

One of the horrors of this war was the murder of 6 million European Jews in an event known as the

___________________. This has gone down as the worst genocide in human historyThe Allies, led by the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, defeated the Axis Powers, Germany, Italy, and Japan to end both the Holocaust and World War II, a terrible time in World History.

HOLOCAUST STATISTICS

01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,0008,000,0009,000,000

10,000,000

JEWI SHPOPULATI ON

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Can Anyone Tell Me

Who This Is, and

why she is well

known?

A Country DividedFollowing WWII, Germany was divided

into __________________ East Germany which was run by the Soviet Union,

and _________________ West Germany, run by the U.S., U.K., and France.Germany remained in two pieces for over 40 years until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990. It is then that the two regions reunified, or were brought back together.

Purple is organized

by the U.S.,

France, and U.K

Orange is organized

by the Soviet Union

The Wall This concrete wall didn’t stop many Berliners from trying to enter the west.

Desperate to reach West Berlin, citizens of the east would jump out windows of houses on the borderline, or dig tunnels to crawl underneath the wall. These processes were not easy, and grew more and more dangerous everyday.

Almost 200 People were killed trying to escape from the East into the west.

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down joining East and West Germany back together

Germany Today

Germany covers 137,782 square miles which makes it just a wee bit smaller than Montana, and its capital is

____________________.

Germany lies in the heart of Europe and has several important rivers such as the Danube and the Rhine.

Germany is one of the world's largest exporter of goods in the world. Germany is a global economic power and a leader in the European Union.

Production Germans import 1/3 of their food.

German workers and products travel to markets on superhighways called

__________________.

The German language has two major dialects, which are local forms of a language.