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Geography: Climate Change: 2 of 2 History: The Holocaust: 1 of 2

What is the Holocaust? Key definitions.
Weather Short term state of the atmosphere in a particular location.
• The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other
Climate Long term state of the atmosphere (usually 30 years or more) persecuted groups, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz. .Holocaust comes from Hebrew and means destruction or completely burnt.
Climate change Long-term shift in the state of the atmosphere. Many Jews use the term Shoah which comes from the Hebrew and means catastrophe.
Greenhouse gasses Gasses which absorb and re-emit infrared radiation.
Mitigation Actions that prevent or reduce the causes of climate change. Hitler’s Persecution of the Jews The Road to the Holocaust World War Two.
Hitler's dislike of the Jews was based on the economy. He blamed them for making
The Nazis invaded Eastern Europe and used The Einsatzgruppen who were special mobile
strategies Germany weak. killing squads created in 1939. In 1941 the Einsatzgruppen would move through Nazi controlled
st
Adaptation Actions that help people cope with the effects of climate change. • 1 April 1933: Hitler’s first action directly against the Jews was a Boycott of areas and round up Jews, gypsies, undesirables and disabled people. They
rounded them up and shot them.
strategies all Jewish The Final Solution
businesses
• April 11, 1933 - Nazis issue a decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government held in the Berlin suburb of
Wannsee on 20 January 1942. It was decided whereby most of the Jews of German- occupied
Natural Factor Time- Diagram • descended from non- Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents.” Europe would be deported to occupied Poland and murdered.
May 10, 1933 - Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.
Frame • In Sept - Nazis establish Reich Chamber of Culture, then exclude Jews from
the Arts. The Death Camps: Auschwitz
100,000 • Summer 1935 Placards saying Jews not wanted displayed in resorts, public
Orbital Change Birkeneau, Chelmno, Treblinka,
years buildings, restaurants Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek in the
and cafes .( these were removed during the 1936 Olympic Games). far east of Poland.
• A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of The death camps used gas
November 9, 1938 into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The chambers to murder Jews and
Sunspots 11 years Night of Broken Glass. others on an industrial scale.
Jews were brought from all
over Europe. Selection
The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis: happened when you arrived.
Nazis is an abbreviation for the National Socialist German Women with children, the
Volcanic Unpredi Workers Party that existed from 1919-1945. Their leader was Adolf Hitler Elderly and the unfit went
Eruptions ctable Reasons for the Nazi’s gaining support. straight to the gas chambers.
• Nazi’s had support from big business The Jews were told they were
• The rise in unemployment being taken to showers but the
• Hitler promised a stronger Germany and Hitler’s use of propaganda showers were in fact gas
Responses To Climate Change • The Nazis promised different things to different chambers. To the camps usually
people: jobs to the unemployed, ideas to the young, pensions to the old 14 years of age upwards and if
Mitigation Adaptation • Hitler blamed the Jews for the economic collapse and struggles of Germany they were fit and healthy as
well as children taken from
Electric vehicles, such as Tesla. Flood resilient housing, such as elevated houses in Northern Bangladesh. parents (if they were lucky)
were taken to showers to clean
Hitler takes power in Germany:
Carbon Capture and Storage, such as Boundary Dam Power Station. Farmer field schools, such as saltwater growing techniques in Southern Bangladesh. July 1932 the Nazis were the largest party in the Reichstag. them up. The showers were
either really hot or extremely
Hitler is made Chancellor on the 30 January 1933. cold. They would then be
th
International agreements, such as Glasgow 2021 declaration to ban and Rainwater storage, such as Hafirs in Sudan for irrigation. Hitler starts his persecution of the Jews. tattooed with a number their
reverse deforestation. hair shaven and given a uniform.