Causes of WW1

-League of Nations
-Hitlers getting into Power
After the WW1, many Germans thought that the government wasnt
strong and didn't have a big reputation, therefore since the
depression of Germany because they lost WW1 this was an
opportunity for Adolf Hitler and also the Nazi Party to take over
Germany.
-The treaty of Versailles. Germany had to pay a fine of 33 billion
dollars.
-Japan were soon taking over a bit of china like Nanjing
Where Australians fought
-Borneo
-New Guinea
-Greece
-Crete
-Syria and Lebanon
-Malaya and Singapore
-East Indies
Fall of Singapore
-The allies were unprepared for this invasion
-The allies surrendered to the Japanese
Impact of the returned soldiers
-Many people form the war got Post dramatic stress
-Some got traumatised after seeing what happened in the war
-RSL served and helped the people after the war
How the war is commemorated
-25th of April, Anzac day
-Remembrance day
-Poppy is a way that everyone sympathises for those who died
Australias changing relationship with other counties in WW2
-the dual alliance with both the UK and the United States of America
-the relationship between Australia and Japan deteriorated
Concentration Camps
-The first concentration camp was in Dachau, near Munich in 1933
-Hitler established 10000 more camps, 500 in Poland and nearly 700
in Berlin.
Extermination (Death) camps
-Belzec, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Chelmno, Madjanek, Sobibor
-In these camps, the jews were told by the SS soliders that they
were just going in to have a shower, except the jews got gased.

Liberation of camps
-In July 1944, the soviets went to Madjenek in Poland to investigate
the extermination camp.
Definition of the Holocaust
-Extermination of jews
Ghettos
-Three types of Ghettos, which are Open, Closed and destruction.
-Jews were put into Ghettos, which is a small village in order to put
them away from the hewish
Anti Semitism in the 1900
During the 1800s German Anti-Semitism began to increase. This
was largely as a result of the two political movements:
-Zionism and German Unification
Nazi-Anti Semitic Policies
Disadvantaged the lives of jews
-Boycott 1933
The Nazis carried out a plan against the jews by boycotting jewish
businesses and professions
-Numenburg Law 1935
Race dividing laws which jewish people were excluded from German
life
-if a jew had 4 grandfathers, he was considered a jew
-Kristallnacht 1938
Due to the assassination of a German diplomat, Germans used
sledgehammers to destroy Jeish hospitals and everything to do with
jews
90 jewish people died
Wannsee Conference and Final Solution
The conference was between 15 nazi memebers at a mansion, led
by the ss. The main purpose was to form a plan to destroy the
Jewish population. The final solution was the introduction to death
camps. 6 main death camps were formed which are Belzec,
Treblinka, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Madjanek, Chelmno
Australian Prime ministers during WW2
-Robert Menzies
-Arthur Fadden
-John Curtain
-Frank Forde
-Ben Chifley