Timeline Events
1932 FDR Elected President
1933 Assassination Attempt on FDR
1933 Wiley Post flies around the world in 8 ½ days
1933 Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany & First Nazi concentration camp established
1935 Wiley Post and Will Rogers killed in a plane crash
1939 WWII begins
1940 Auschwitz opens (concentration and death camp)
1940 FDR elected to a 3rd Presidential term
1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Mount Rushmore completed
1942 Manhattan Project begins (project to create first atomic bomb)
1944 D-Day (Allies stormed the beaches of German-occupied France)
1945 Germans surrender and Hitler commits suicide
Recommended Books and Movies
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Assignment
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Assignment
➪ What was the Holocaust? What years did it occur? Why did it happen?
Quote:
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." ~Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." ~Winston Churchill (November 10, 1942)
Interesting Facts:
➪ How did the Nazis get people to the concentration and death camps?
➪ How many people were murdered during the Holocaust? How many were Jews?Quote:
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." ~Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." ~Winston Churchill (November 10, 1942)
-FDR was homeschooled until the age of 14.
-In 1940, minimum wage was $.30 an hour. (Federal minimum wage in 2015 is $7.25 an hour.)
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