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? |
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| 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. |
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Read Epilogue and answer the following questions: What % of the votes did the NSDAP get in 1932? |
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| 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). |
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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? |
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| 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 |
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