Emily's Social Studies Journal

DICTATOR

• A person who has all power over a country and its people.
• In 1933 Hitler and his Nazis took over Germany and Hitler soon ruled as a dictator.

WAR BONDS

• Loans from the American people to the federal government.
• The money from the bonds were used to help pay for the war.
• All the money that was in the bank from different people all went to help the war.

INTERNMENT CAMP

• A place where prisoners are held during war time.
• Two thirds of people in the camps were United States citizens.

ATOMIC BOMB

• A powerful bomb that can destroy an entire city.
• America had develped a new, secret weapon, the atomic bomb.

CONCENTRATION CAMP

• A place where large numbers of people are held prisoners and forced to work.
• Over 12 million people, about 6 million of them are Jews, died in concentration camps.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL: PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

• On Pearl Harbor it was alarming because you could not see anything because of all the smoke.
• It was very emotional because close friends and family are getting either dangerously hurt or were killed.
• Pearl Harbor was like the war because every step you take, you were risking your life.
• Some emotions people were going through were downcastness, most people were going through depression.
• Everyone was screaming and hoping not to die and trying to save their families lives'. Everyone was panicing.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK

• If I was at Pearl Harbor I would be looking for someone I know that is close to me.
• If there was a way to prevent the attack I would do that.
• I would try to deactivate the bomb before it could take off to our country.
• I do not know anyone who lived through the attack on Pearl Harbor.

GENOCIDE

• The name of this genocide is Armenian.
• April 24,1915-1916 the Armenian genocide took place.

GENOCIDE

• Some countries that were involved on the Armenian were Turky, and Europe.
• The country, Turkey, had the Armenian Genocide. 1.5 million people were killed by the Armenian Genocide out of 2.5 million

GENOCIDE

• The young turks were the perpetrators of the Armenian genocide.
• The victims were the children and grandchildren of the survivors.
• One and a half million people died from the Armenian genocide.
• Today only about a third Armenian lives today. The Armenian people who are still here are spread out all over the country, and other countries as well.
• They are victims because they were there when the genocide was happening.They might have also been victims beacuse the genocide might have happened to them too.

GENOCIDE

• In the 11th century the ottoman empire invaded The Armenian homeland.
• Muslim turks controlled the Armenians for hundreds of years.
• The muslim turks took over until eventually the entire Armenian region absorbed into the Ottoman Empire.

GENOCIDE

• The commander of the perpetrator is Sultan Abdul-Hamid.
• Sultan Abdulhamid the 2nd was born in the 21st century.
• He was a weak child and used to fell sick often.
• By that reason he was showed great interest, esspecially during his father's reign.
• He ruled the Ottomans for 33 years.

GENOCIDE

• Many women, children, and men were even kidnapped.
• Also, some were arrested, tortured, or killed.

GENOCIDE

• In the summer of 1915, Armenians all around the Ottoman Empire were deported towards the Syrian Desert.
• Their properties were confiscated and the men were shot outside of towns and villages.
• The death march to Syrian concentration camps consumed many women and children.
• Many people almost starved to death and were very skinny.
• In each gas chamber they could fit between 700 and 800 people in each one.

GENOCIDE

• 103 christians were Armenians.
• Many people people were affected by starvation. Everyone lost close family members.
• There was a huge devastation that people were treated very unfairly. People were severly punished if they did not do something correctly.