WWIIThe Final Solutions

Japanese Internment

• Reasons for internment was a anti-Japanese prejudice after Pearl Harbor.

• False reporting made people think Japanese Americans were reporting to the enemy

• Japanese Americans were “relocated” to internment camps to live.

• This internment affected most Japanese on the West Coast.

• The Supreme Court approved the move but years later issued an apology and made financial payment to survivors.

Holocaust• Germany’s decision to

exterminate all Jews was known as The Final Solution.

• It resulted in genocide: the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group.

• Hitler targeted:– Jews– Poles– Slavs– Gypsies– “Undesirables” (homosexuals, mentally ill, political dissidents)– (Over 6 million people were killed)

– He wanted Aryan Supremacy. An all-white, blond-hair, blue-eyed society.

The Nuremberg Trials

• After Camps were liberated, the Nazi’s were held responsible

• Nazi’s were convicted of war crimes and the trials emphasized individual responsibility for actions during the war, regardless of orders.

• The trials led to an increased demand for a Jewish homeland.