Yi Historical Fiction Book Clubs by msleungisf https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt Building Background Knowledge on World War 2 en-us 2019-04-23 05:42:38 UTC 2025-12-05 00:19:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Primary Sources from the BBC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353252039 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059sqrc]]> 2019-04-23 05:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353252039 Jewish Children with the Star of David https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353252068 2019-04-23 05:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353252068 World War II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255307  Hitler was one of the most brutal and powerful leaders in the world and formed the axis powers in order to counter the allied forces. He tortured thousands of innocent people, thinking they were enemies that had to be eliminated. ]]> 2019-04-23 06:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255307 World war II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255407 There was a lot of deaths in world war II, it was around 40000000-50000000 deaths during the world war. Because of that, world war two was the biggest war in history.]]> 2019-04-23 06:17:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255407 World War ll https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255466 Adolf Hitler was a very powerful man who hated Jews, and made them wear a star on their jackets, called the Star of David. He tortured, and poisoned thousands of innocent Jews, though why he hated them remains unknown. 
When he was young, Hitler had greatly enjoyed painting, and was very good at it. ]]> 2019-04-23 06:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255466 World War II The letter https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255501 This letter was written by a German soldier on August 30, 1943. It would take two more years for World War II to end, but by then Germany was losing ground. With this message, the author wants to reassure his wife and children. He is writing while fighting the Russian army on the Eastern Front. Back home, his family is being forced to move after their town faced intense bombing.The letter was published in "Der Schulungsbrief," a German government newspaper meant to teach the German people about Nazi thinking. In this case, it was published to give them hope that winning World War II was still possible. In the letter, the German soldier mentions the Russian Bolsheviks. This was a communist political group that led Russia. At the time, Russia formed the Soviet Union.



]]> 2019-04-23 06:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255501 In world war ll, many j https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255522 2019-04-23 06:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255522 WorldWar 2 ll https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255555 Hitler was a really powerful leader he doesn't like Jews, they were captured and tortured them to death. And Hitler tortured many innocent people, like they were enemies so they killed them. in WW2 so many people suffered and die, many countries were involved so many people died. War started at September 1939 Germany started it. Britain, France,Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Soviet Union, China and the United States of America.Aliens 
Germany, Italy and Japan axis

]]> 2019-04-23 06:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255555 World war II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255662 there were two sides in  world war two; the axis powers and the allies. the axis powers included countries such as Germany and japan, and the allies included many powerful countries such as china and USA, the soviet union, and more. In the end, the USA army drove the Nazis back and defeated them.]]> 2019-04-23 06:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255662 World War https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255670  According to the History.com, "In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which incited a frenzy of worry in London and Paris. Hitler had long planned an invasion of Poland, a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it was attacked by Germany. The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland, and would have Soviet assistance in conquering and dividing the nation itself. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War 2."]]> 2019-04-23 06:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255670 World War 2 https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255696
World History

The Holocaust, Part One: The Rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II

By History.com, adapted by Newsela staff
02/23/2017
Word Count 675

In September 1939, the German army invaded Poland. The attack marked the beginning of World War II. Hitler was the leader for Germany and hated the jews. World War II was the most destructive war in human history. Lasting from 1939 to 1945, it engulfed the globe and resulted in the deaths of millions of people. Jews, though, were the Nazis' main targets and victims.Once he came to power in 1933, he began turning his hateful ideas into deadly action.  They planned to use a poisonous gas to murder Polish Jews individuals. 







]]> 2019-04-23 06:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255696 world war ll https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255758 In world war two, many jews were captured and was taken to ]]> 2019-04-23 06:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255758 WW2 (World War https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255899 In the horrifying event of WW2, the earth suffered 85 million casualties. People from all places died. It was known to be "Germany's Revenge, as the lost in World War 1 and they had to sign the treaty of Versailles. H]]> 2019-04-23 06:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255899 World War II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255930 2019-04-23 06:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353255930 WWll summary https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256021 World War II was the most destructive war in human history. Lasting from 1939 to 1945, it engulfed the globe and resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
During this time, another horror was taking place in Europe. It was called the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the mass murder of 6 million Jews by German Nazis. Jews are followers of the religion of Judaism. 
Millions of people from other groups also were caught and killed by the Nazis. They included Roma (sometimes negatively called Gypsies) and people with disabilities. Jews, though, were the Nazis' main targets and victims. They put them in concentration camps, where you have to work, and suffer. You get a tiny amount of food, you die of hunger, you freeze, and you get killed even though you are innocent. 
Adolf Hitler was the powerful leader of Germany and the Nazi Party. To him and his followers, Jews were a lower race of people and a danger to German society. Once he came to power in 1933, he began turning his hateful ideas into deadly action.

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]]> 2019-04-23 06:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256021 World War II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256086 World War II began on September 1st, 1939, and ended on September 2nd, 1945. This war was between two groups of countries; the Axis,]]> 2019-04-23 06:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256086 World War ll https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256090 Adolf Hitler was one of the ]]> 2019-04-23 06:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256090 World War II Attacks https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256122 Many people died from attacks like the pearl harbor and Hiroshima bombing, but the USA had the most nuclear weapons at the time, Germany had to weaken them so they took over many states and used them in order to strengthen them.]]> 2019-04-23 06:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256122 world war ll https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256141 In world war two, many jews were captured and was taken to concentration camps where they would starve and be threatened. No one thinks anyone would make it out alive.]]> 2019-04-23 06:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256141 World War 2 https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256379 Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful and notorious dictators of the 20th century. Hitler capitalized on economic woes, popular discontent and political infighting to take absolute power in Germany beginning in 1933. Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the outbreak of World War II, and by 1941 Nazi forces had occupied much of Europe. Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism and obsessive pursuit of Aryan supremacy fueled the murder of some 6 million Jews, along with other victims of the Holocaust. After the tide of war turned against him, Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker in April 1945.  ]]> 2019-04-23 06:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256379 World War II time line https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256420 World War II lasted from 1939 to 1945. There were several major events leading up to the war and then during the war. Here is a timeline listing some of the major events:

Leading up to the War

1933 January 30 - Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. His Nazi Party, or the Third Reich, takes power and Hitler is essentially the dictator of Germany.

1936 October 25 - Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty.

1936 November 25 - Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. This was a pact against communism and Russia.

1937 July 7 - Japan invades China.

1938 March 12 - Hitler annexes the country of Austria into Germany. This is also called the Anschluss.

World War II

1939 September 1 - Germany invades Poland. World War II begins.

1939 September 3 - France and Great Britain declare war on Germany.

1940 April 9 to June 9 - Germany invades and takes control of Denmark and Norway.

1940 May 10 to June 22 - Germany uses quick strikes called blitzkrieg, meaning lightning war, to take over much of western Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium, and northern France.

1940 May 30 - Winston Churchill becomes leader of the British government. 
1940 June 10 - Italy enters the war as a member of the Axis powers.
1940 July 10 - Germany launches an air attack on Great Britain. These attacks last until the end of October and are known as the Battle of Britain.
1940 September 22 - Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance.
1941 June 22 - Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia with a huge force of over four million troops.
1941 December 7 - The Japanese attack the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. The next day the US enters World War II on the side of the Allies.
1942 June 4 - The US Navy defeats the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway.
1942 July 10 - The Allies invade and take the island of Sicily.
1943 September 3 - Italy surrenders to the Allies, however Germany helps Mussolini to escape and set up a government in Northern Italy.
1944 June 6 - D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
1944 August 25 - Paris is liberated from German control.
1944 December 16 - The Germans launch a large attack in the Battle of the Bulge. They lose to the Allies sealing the fate of the German army.
1945 February 19 - US Marines invade the island of Iwo Jima. After a fierce battle they capture the island.
1945 April 12 - US President Franklin Roosevelt dies. He is succeeded by President Harry Truman.
1945 March 22 - The US Third Army under General Patton crosses the Rhine River.
1945 April 30 - Adolf Hitler commits suicide as he knows Germany has lost the war.
1945 May 7 - Germany surrenders to the Allies. 

1945 August 6 - The United States drops the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The city is devastated.
1945 August 9 - Another atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1945 September 2 - Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies. 
]]> 2019-04-23 06:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256420 World War ll https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256469 In World War Two, there are two teams. One of them is called the Allies and the other is called the Axis. Allies were Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Soviet Union, China and the United States of America. Axis are Italy, Japanese, and German Nazi troops. The teams were spoiling for a match.]]> 2019-04-23 06:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256469 The Rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256482 By History.com, adapted by Newsela staff 02/23/2017
World War II was the most deadly war in history. It lasted from 1939 to 1945. Millions of people were killed around the world.In Europe, Jews faced another horror. Jews are people who follow the Jewish religion. Many became victims of the Holocaust. This was the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis. The Nazis ruled Germany from 1933 until the end of World War II. Other people were also caught and killed by the Nazis. People with disabilities were another target. Jews were the Nazis' main victims, though.Adolf Hitler was the powerful leader of Germany and the Nazis. To him, Jews were a lower race of people. He said Jews were a danger to Germany. In 1933, he became Germany's leader. He began turning his hate into action.]]> 2019-04-23 06:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256482 World War 2 https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256536 The Nazis used "concentration camps" to hold millions of Jewish people where they would work and starve until they where exterminated"] in gas showers using a pesticide called Zyklon-B.

]]> 2019-04-23 06:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256536 World War ll https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256823 D-Day is the Invasion of Normandy. On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces of Britain, America, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of Normandy, France. The Allies used paratroopers and ships to bring the soldiers to Normandy, France.]]> 2019-04-23 06:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353256823 World War II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257100 Back then Mexican-Americans were not respected and was normally treated as second-class citizens. They fought in every war of America. There is two mini block lanes in Silvis, Illinois.They sent in 45 soldiers and was given the nickname “Hero Street”. 11 got a Medal of Honor. It is the highest honor award. Although they got the Medal, they were still not respected. Luckily by then Americans believed that everyone who fought for U.S. should be respected.]]> 2019-04-23 06:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257100 Adolf Hitler https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257142 On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. Britain and France had promised to protect Poland. They declared war on Germany. In 1940, Hitler invaded Norway, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium. Germany bombed Britain. Germany joined forces with Japan and Italy. In 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.
In December 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The U.S. entered the war against Germany, Japan and Italy. Hitler was now at war against the United States. In 1942, the German army lost some important battles. In 1944, the U.S. and Britain landed in France and defeated the Germans there. They began to free Western Europe.

]]> 2019-04-23 06:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257142 World War II (Hiroshima explosion) https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257192 The U.S. aircraft dropped an atom bomb at Hiroshima, Japan, and that immediately killed 70000 people. even after the explosion, still more people died after because of it.]]> 2019-04-23 06:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257192 Hitler's past https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257258 Young Hitler signed up for an arts college, knowing that it would be very easy to get in, due to his talents in art. But surprisingly, Hitler failed to get in. If the college had accepted Hitler, this whole war would not have happened. With his dreams perished, Hitler started to try and gain power. Slowly, he did. Hitler created the Nazis, and prepared them for war against the Jewish people. ]]> 2019-04-23 06:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257258 World War II https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257842 Extermination camp, Nazi German concentration camps that specialized in the mass annihilation of unwanted people in the Third Reich and conquered territories. The camps’ victims were mostly Jews but also included Roma (Gypsies), Slavs, homosexuals, alleged mental defectives, and others. ]]> 2019-04-23 06:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353257842 World War II Pearl Harbor attack https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258090 The Pearl Harbor attack was one of the most iconic attack and deadly]]> 2019-04-23 06:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258090 WWII (World War 2) https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258135 On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler, the Füher (leader) of Nazi Germany, decied to invade Poland to get back some land. The allies in WW1 imediately took notice of this, and demanded that Germany resign the treaty of Versailles or they will attack Germany. The nazis decide to not resign and invited a few allies.]]> 2019-04-23 06:34:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258135 Mass Evacuations of Children during the War cleung2 https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258399 2019-04-23 06:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258399 world war 2 https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258432 The beginning of world war 2 are July 7, 1937, when the “Marco Polo Bridge Incident” led to a very long war between Japan and China, and September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation.]]> 2019-04-23 06:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258432 https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258561 In September 1939, the German army invaded Poland. The attack marked the beginning of World War II. German forces made thousands of Polish Jews leave their homes and sent them to ghettos in Polish cities. There, they were trapped behind high walls and barbed wire. ( Newsela]]> 2019-04-23 06:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258561 Summary of the Holocaust cleung2 https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258575 2019-04-23 06:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258575 World War ll Timeline https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258624 2019-04-23 06:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258624 The End of Hitler https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258667 Hitler's life came to an end when he was attacking another country. Knowing that he had lost, he refused to be killed by the enemy, a suicided.]]> 2019-04-23 06:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/cleung2/4rm1qzg0h7xt/wish/353258667