CHARACTERISTI

CS OF THE
SECOND WORLD
WAR, DEATH
AND POVERTY
AND RL
HOLOCAUST
UEPRIM
Lic. Melania Tutiven Puertas
Tenth Course
Social Studies- P2Q1
 Characteristics
Of The Second
World War
Like the First, the _In the context of war,
Second World War developed new
it was also a total war technology (aviation,
energy nuclear, radar).
Later, it applied to civilian
During the war, the Geneva Treaty, life.
which prohibited violence against
civil population. The war had indelible
Like never before a
consequences in the minds of the
war centers were created
population who experienced attacks
torture and death: death camps
and bombings
work and extermination
Massive.
 Death And
Poverty
The death toll rose to 60 million people, including
more than six million Jews, five hundred thousand
gypsies, 4.5 million victims in groups of various
origins such as Serbs, Poles, resistance fighters
from all German opposition countries to Nazism,
homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, people with
physical or mental disabilities, criminals and those
categorized as “antisocial”, for example: beggars,
vagabonds and street vendors.
 Cities, factories and
communication routes
were destroyed, which
caused the economic
ruin of Europe.

After the Yalta Conference, it was agreed

that Germany would be divided. The
eastern region, controlled by the USSR
and the western, by the allies. The USA
and the USSR would gradually leave
Germany, as it reorganized itself,
recovered and, above all, freed itself from
Nazism.
The Nations of Western Europe came
under the influence of the US, which
implemented the Marshall Plan. The
lesson left by the two great wars was
assimilated and it was sought that the
devastated nations recover. To do this,
the US made huge loans, but this
forced Europe to depend on this
country.
The United States (capitalist)
and the Soviet Union
(communist) reasserted
themselves as world powers.

The United Nations Organization

was created.
 The
Holocaust
The murder of millions of The ideological foundations of Nazism
human beings in held that the Aryan race was superior to
extermination camps the others. They thought that world
constitutes one of the most development depended on them, and
shameful events of the that Jews, Gypsies, disabled people and
homosexuals, among other groups, were
Second World War.
a burden and therefore should be
eliminated.
In 1935, the Nuremberg
Laws were enacted. With
deeply racist content, they
prohibited marriage
between Jews and Aryans,
they were prevented from
exercising their profession
or trading in Germany and
they were not considered
citizens of the Third Reich.
In 1933, the Jewish
population exceeded 9
million. By 1945, two out of
three Jews were killed.
Initially, they were
relocated to ghettos; later,
they were transferred to
labor or extermination
camps, where they were
gassed
The horror of the Holocaust lies in
the death of millions of innocent
people; but
also, in which human beings were
able to plan in detail the death of
many other human beings.
THAN
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