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__Ebony's Night background infomation research homework task!__

__**when did the second world war start?**__ It was in Asia that it first commenced** 1937, ** this was the Sino- Japanese war, the other one happened in Europe in ** 1939 ** with the German invasion of Poland.

The ** Allies **and the ** Axis powers **were the two opposing sides.
 * //__ Name the countries on opposing sides of the Second World War/ which group of countries were known as Axis Powers and Allies: __//**


 * The Allies** were lead by the United Kingdom and (until defeated) France they were joined in the European theatre by the Soviet Union in June 1941 and by the United States in December 1941. In the Asia-Pacific Theater the Allies were led by the Republic of China from the invasion of China by Japan in 1937 and then joined by the United States and British Commonwealth (after Japanese attacks).
 * The Axis powers** were led by Germany, Italy and the Empire of Japan (are considered the aggressors of the conflict)


 * The Axis powers** were led by Germany, Italy and the Empire of Japan (are considered the aggressors of the conflict)


 * __investigation of the rise of the Nazi Party in__** **__Germany__** **:** Who was the Nazi leader? Adolph Hitler the Nazi Party was also known as the // National Socialist German Workers Party. The Nazi party was //anti- Semitic which means it was // against Jewish people and against //communism.

this was part of the Nazi's parties program, the aims of the Nazi party: Point 1. We demand the unification of all Germans in the Greater Germany, on the basis of the right of self-determination of peoples. Point 2. We demand equality of rights for the German People in respect to the other nations; abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and Saint Germain. Point 3. We demand land and territory for the sustenance of our people, and the colonization of our surplus population. Point 4. Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood, without consideration of creed. Consequently no Jew can be a member of the race.... Point 22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army." //**__ meanings of some words: __**// Kristallnacht: On this night Germany ’s military killed around 91 Jews and 25,000–30,000 were arrested and deported to concentration camp. This event happened in Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The Nazi's also destroyed Jewish property including books and churches.
 * What were the aims of the Nazis?**
 * Holocaust: the holocaust was the **genocide of the Jews, gay men, the physically and mentally disabled, Slavic people, political dissidents and religious dissidents by the Nazis during World War II.
 * Ghetto: **A ** ghetto ** is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure" the Jews were sent to live in Ghetto's by the Nazi's. All the ghettos had the most appalling, inhuman living conditions and were guarded by soldier's.
 * Persecution: the dictionary meaning of persecution was **A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, hitler persecuted/tried to persecute meny groups during World War II including Jews and Serbs. Between 500,000 and 1.2 million Serbs were killed.
 * Genocide: ** A deliberate destruction of a particular culture, religious, racial or ethnic group.


 * "Final solution": ** this was the Nazi's program of exterminating Jews.

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 * What were concentration camps? ** Concentration camps mistreated prisoners horribly! Many died through mistreatment, many prisoners also died before even reaching the concentration camps from the bad traveling conditions. Concentration camps imprisoned people who they considered opponents to their regime.