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The Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth was a Nazi-organized youth movement. For the section of boys, it was called the Hitler Youth (14 to 18 years old). For the sections of girls, it was called the League of German Girls (14 to 18 years old). These Nazi youth groups introduced Nazi ideology and policy to these children. -
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor
Hitler is appointed Chancellor after the Nazi party received the most votes in the elections. -
Nuremberg Race Laws
Reich Citizenship Law was that only racially pure Germans were allowed to be German citizens.
The law for the protection of German Blood and German Honor was a law that banned intermarriage and sexual relation between Jews and "real German people". -
Josef's father was arrested for being Jewish and practicing law on Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). He was released 6 months later from concentration camp Dachau but had to leave Germany.
Berlin Germany -
Josef's family aboard MS St. Louis's ship in the hope to escape Nazi Germany and find refuge in Cuba
Hamburg Germany (6 days from home) -
Josef's Bar Mitzvah celebrated him becoming a man (entering adulthood)
Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean (6 days from home) -
Josef and his mother and his little sister get caught by Nazi storm trooper. They make Josef's mother choose between her children, which one gets freedom and which one goes to a concentration camp
Vornay France (1 year 1 month and 10 days away from home) -
Syria became an independent country
France and Syria negotiated a treaty of independence (1936) which allowed Syria to be independent but gave France military and economic power. -
The United Arab Republic
The UAR is a political union between Syria and Egypt. The union reflected Arab nationalism and solidarity. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold war. This conflict was the closest they came to a nuclear conflict. -
The Soviet Union Collapsed
Gorbachev's(president of the soviet union) decision to allow a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union. That caused the Soviet Union to start a slow process of democratization and that destabilized communist control -
Isabel's family and Ivan's family use the homemade boat to escape Cuba to go to El Norte.
Havana Cuba -
Isabel and Ivan's homemade boat reached The Bahamas, but two policemen told them that if they got off the boat they were going to be sent back to Cuba
Caribbean Sea (3 days from home) -
Isabel's best friend Ivan gets killed by sharks
Between the Bahamas and Florida (5 days from home) -
Wet Foot, Dry Foot Policy
President Bill Clinton passed this policy. The policy said that Cuban immigrants that made it to U.S. soil could stay but if they got caught out at sea they would be taken back to Cuba -
The Twin Towers Attacks
Terrorists trained by al Qaeda hijacked 4 airlines. They flew 2 planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, 1 to the pentagon in Arlington Virginia, and the fourth was crashed in rural Pennsylvania. The attacks killed about 2,976 and injured thousands more. -
Syria "The Axis of Evil"
The United States accused Syria of having weapons of mass destruction. United Stated listed Syria as a member of the "axis of evil" countries. Also, the Syrian government was accused of being involved in the assassination of Rafic Hariri (Lebanese prime minister) in 2005. -
The invasion of Iraq
The invasion was led by the United States alongside the United Kingdom. U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraq's weapons of destruction and to end the rule of Saddam Hussein. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a destructive category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused more than 1800 deaths and more than $125 billion in damage. -
Terrorists attack London transit system
Bombs are placed in three crowded subways and one bus during the peak ok the city's rush. 56 people were killed and 700 injured. Around September Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attacks. -
Syrian Civil War
Many Syrians were complaining about unemployment, corruption, and lack of political freedom under President Bashar- al-Assad. They got inspired by the city of Deraa, they spoke out against their rulers. But when the Syrians tried to speak out the government used deadly force to stop them. Violence escalated and that began the Civil war. -
Mahmoud's family trying to make it to Germany where they accept Refugees
Aleppo Syria -
Mahmoud and his family boarded Smuggler's boat to try to navigate to the island of Lesbos (an inflatable raft with an outboard motor, about 30 refugees)
Izmir, Turkey (11 days from home) -
Mahmoud had to give away his little sister (Hana) to strangers in a raft because their raft has sunk
Somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea (11 days from home)
