AMERICA DURING WORLD WAR II
1920 U.S. population: 105,710,620 Black population: 10,463,131 (9.9%)
- Fifty-three black Americans are known to have been lynched in 1920. 1921 Fifty-nine African Americans were lynched in 1921. 1922 On December 4, a federal anti-lynching bill was killed by a filibuster in the United States Senate. -Fifty-one African Americans were lynched. 1923 Twenty-nine African Americans were lynched. 1924 Sixteen African Americans were lynched. 1925 Seventeen African Americans were lynched. April 5, 1945, American troops were sent to Germany to save holocaust victims |
GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II
1935 -"No Jews" signs and notices are posted outside German towns and villages, and outside shops and restaurants.
- Jews are prohibited from serving in the German armed forces. -The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship. 1943 Germany, 7,220 to 8,000 Jews liberated 1944 Germany, 10,000 Jews liberated April 26, 1945, as the Americans approached Dachau about 7,000 prisoners, most of them Jews, were sent on a death march. April 29, 1945 Troops from the United States liberate survivors from the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. May 1945, American forces liberated the prisoners who had been sent on the death march. |