WWII

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Unit Number: 5

Unit Question: Who is Responsible for the Holocaust?

State Standards:

10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.

10.8.1 Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.

10.8.2 Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.

10.8.3 Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.


10.8.4 Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).


10.8.5 Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.

10.8.6 Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.

Assignment Page #
Classwork
Hyperinflation Notes 78
Political Ideology Handout 79
Voter Evaluation Form 80
Appeasement Reading 81
Big Lie Notes 82
Hitler's Speech to Youth 83
Nuremberg Laws Translation 84
Holocaust Timeline 85
Holocaust Timeline Reflection 86
Propaganda Debrief 87
Schindler's List Reflection 88
Master Race Video Notes 89
Conspiracy Reflection 90
Concentration Camp Footage Reflection 91
Lost Peace Video Notes 92
Events leading to WWII 93
Total War Video Notes 94
Lectures
Notes on Fascism 95
Appeasement Notes/Milk and Cookies Reflection 96
G.R.A.S.P 97
Overview of WWII 98
Battle of Stalingrad 99
Notes on D-Day 100
Notes on the End of the War in Europe(Battle of the Bulge, V-E Day, and Yalta Conference) 101
Notes on the End of the War in the Pacific (Dropping of the Atomic Bomb and Potsdam Conference) 102
Homework
Part II: The Troubled Infancy of the Weimer Republic Worksheet 103
"Uneasy Peace" pg. 463-468 Worksheet 104
Outline 471-473 105
Holocaust Train 106
Propaganda Webquest 107
Steps to War 108
Worksheet from pgs. 541-544 109
Warmups
What were some provisions of the Treaty of Versailles (WWI) that would cause problems in the 1920s and 1930s? (Think about $ and land issues)
In what ways would these issues lead to the rise of an extremely nationalistic political party in Germany?
What was the “lost generation” and what have they learned about war?
Why were fascists popular in the 1930s in Italy and Germany? Make a connection to the Treaty of Versailles and economic conditions in the 1930s.
Be specific about the goals of Fascism and industry.

Read Epilogue and answer the following questions:

What % of the votes did the NSDAP get in 1932?
What % did the NDSAP get after the Reichstag burned?
What % did the other parties get?
When is Hitler made chancellor?
What is the difference between mass support and majority and why is this idea important in understanding Hitler’s rise to power?

What is propaganda?
Why might the Germans have been susceptible to anti-Semitic propaganda and the use of Jews as a scapegoat? (Think about the economic conditions in Germany).

Read short biography on Oscar Schindler and answer the following questions:

1. Who is Oscar Schindler?

2. How did he save thousands of Jews lives?

3. How can Schindler be seen as a hero or a villian? Which one do you think he is?

Look at the "Stages of the Holocaust" timeline. Write one bullet point for each of the events. At which point could the League of Nations gotten involved? Why do you think they did not interfere?
What is the Munich Conference? Why is this an act of Appeasement

Sequence the following events and briefly describe what happens

Battle of Britain

Invasion of France

Munich Pact

Invasion of Czechoslavakia

Stalingrad

Invasion of Poland

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Phony War