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World War II: Summary, Combatants & Facts | HISTORY

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World War II was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. Rising to power in an unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) rearmed the nation and signed treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun. The majority of the world’s countries eventually formed two opposing alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

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1.   Watch the videos, jotting down important words, phrases, dates, and places.

2.  Explore the Frank family's hiding place with the Secret Annex Online. (Over there <------)

3. Check out the timeline to see the order that these events happened in history.

4.  Just before the bell rings, type one or two words or phrases that stuck out to you into the Answer Garden for us to discuss as a class next time.

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Hiding in the Secret Annex on the Prinsengracht

In July 1942, the Frank family went into hiding. The Van Pels family followed a week later. The two families already knew each other: Hermann van Pels worked for Otto's company. Four months later, they were joined by an eighth person: Fritz Pfeffer, an acquaintance of the Frank family.

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Take a look around and explore the Secret Annex where Anne Frank was in hiding for more than two years during World War II, and where she wrote her diary.

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Otto Frank talks Anne's diary | Anne Frank House

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Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, as Abraham hid in a crawl space, the Germans seized his mother and sisters in a raid. They perished. He was deployed for forced labor nearby, but escaped to return to his father in the ghetto.

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Holocaust Survivor Marcia Spies Testimony Clip "Hiding"

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In this testimony clip from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, Jewish Survivor Marcia Spies discusses pre-war life.

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A short biography of Anne Frank, whose diary offered an intimate account of what life was like hiding from Hitler's Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II.

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Just before class ends, type in words or phrases that stuck out to you from the information you learned.

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AnswerGarden " Important Words and Phrases about WWII

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AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic brainstorm tool for online brainstorming, real time audience participation and classroom feedback.

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Where do the videos fit on the timeline? Click on this link to see how Germany progressed from Hitler coming to power to the Jewish people recovering from the atrocities he laid upon them.

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The Holocaust was a time of terror and death for Jews, and many other nationalities during World War II. The Nazi's were responsible for the death of millions before the war came to an end. This timeline outlines those events.