World War II (1939-1945)

Look at the map and see the counties that were involved in the war and where they were.

This is a letter that Sheila sent home to her parents. This is a gas chamber Jewish people were taken to concentration camps where they were starved of food and where they caught diseases. Before the Jews were killed, the German army made the people work as slaves. Men, women and children were taken to these gas chambers to be killed because of their religion. The crime of killing people in gas chambers and making them work as slaves was named the 'Holocaust'. Anne Frank was a child that was killed in a concentration camp. She hid away from the German army for two years. She made a diary of the war time.		Who were the main people in world war II? Look at the pictures bellow to see who! The important people were: Britain's primeinister Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Anne Frank See if you can find them in the pictures What happened to the children in the war? Children left home as evacuees and they went to live with people in the country side. They went to school as usual, but they also learnt what they should do if there was an air raid. Also, they would of learnt of learnt how to put on a gas mask. Night time was quite scary for the children because they had to sleep in an air raid shelter and they never knew when a bomb would drop. Also the shelters were very small and a lot of children had to sleep in them. There were not many celebrating days, such as birthdays and Christmas. They didn't even get sweets. Reference list http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm -accessed 13/11/12 www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/world_at_war/ -accessed 13/11/12 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/children_and_world_war_two.htm -accessed 13/11/12 www.nysm.nysed.gov/citizensoldier/conflicts/WWIIeto/ -accessed 13/11/12 www.wallpaperswala.com/poppy-flower/ -accessed 14/11/12 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/children_at_war/ -accessed 14/11/12 parksfacts.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/gas-chamber.html -accessed 14/11/12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH84hflOyXg -accessed 29/11/12