Our class learns about the Holocaust for many reasons. First, the country we live in, the United States, was at war and also helped free people in concentration camps. The Holocaust tells part of the history of our world and allows everyone to learn from the mistakes made by our world. Another reason we study the Holocaust is because it helped bring the United States out of the Great Depression. The Holocaust did not happen instantly, but over years of planning. The Holocaust began with Hilter's rise to power. Adolf Hitler was an unsuccessful Austrian artist. He was a soldier in World War I and was injured by mustard gas which left him temporarily blind. After the war, he became angry with Germany for losing the war. He was so angry with Germany that he tried to overthrow the government, but he failed. The government threw Hitler in prison for five years for treason. While in prison he wrote a book called Mein Kampf or My Struggle. Since he wrote the book, he has only served nine months of his five-year sentence. Then, when he was released, Hitler was a member of the Nazi party and became president of Germany in January 1933. Later, he named himself dictator of Germany. In 1939-1940, the Nazi Party invaded Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. This unexpected attack came as a surprise to the United States because it did not give the Navy enough time to respond. The events of Pearl Harbor lead the United States to war. World War II helped the United States emerge from the Great Depression. This also allowed women to work in factories and other important jobs since men were at war. The United States was on Allied Power... middle of paper ......learn more about the Holocaust to recognize how terribly these millions of people were treated and how wrong it was to allow such control. We learn about the Holocaust through how people were discriminated against and how they were not treated as equals or individuals. Fortunately, the Allied Powers won and saved those who remained to be saved. It may have been too late, but it represented a big change for our world. The reason we learn about the Holocaust is to understand what our countries did wrong and how to prevent it from happening again. In Edmund Surke's quote it says: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Our people must know how to respond or react to those who are trying to ruin the world. We need to learn more about the Holocaust so we know what to do in times of chaos and try to prevent it from happening a second time..