Interwar+Years+&+WW2

Day One : Rise of Fascism in Italy EQ: Why did Fascism appeal to the Italian people in the years following World War One?

1. Postwar Europe - flip chart notes [|Towards Prosperity and Hope] (3:40)

2. White Board on Paper Read and analyze for Mussolini's use of Fascist/Totalitarian methodology Discuss

3..Mussolini What is Fascism? Read and Analyze

4. Video Clip: (may only have time for this lunch block) [|Mussolini]

Day Two and Three MCAS Tuesday and Wednesday May 7 and 8 Weimar Republic and the Rise of Nazism in Germany

Rise of Nazism Packet HIlter video clip [|Hitler Rise to Power] ((9:00) "Beer Hall Putsch" - imitates "March on Rome", context of Ruhr occupation, Hitler jumps on a table, fires rifle at the ceiling and shouted "The Revolution has broken out". - 5 year sentence but only served one. Weimar is soft on crime. Hitler writes Mein Kampf in prison.

Day Four

EQ: Was the rise of Nazism in Germany inevitable? 1.Discuss Socratic 2. Remind ourselves of where Africa, India and Latin America were at this time in order to keep a global perspective. 3. Review and discuss quotes taken from previous units and their relationship to the rise of Nazism 4. Discuss Documents 1-11 in packet.

Days 5 and 6 China and Japan In groups counted off by 5's - some packets have initial group # and then a letter L spy and R spy on two in each group. 1.

Activator take out notes about Chins and Japan 6 word story about China 6 word story about Japan 6 word story about the relationship between China and Japan.

Main Event: In groups read assigned document. 0. Assign your document a date. 1. Choose a telling quote. 2. Identify 3 key terms from the passage 2. Create a 3-5 sentence summary of your document. 3. Develop a three point thesis that describes and analyzes the actions of the Japanese in your document. 4. Send out a spies to neighboring groups -- what is going on in their document and how does it align with or contradict what is happening in yours? 5.Take notes and then report back to your group.

• how does the information that you gathered connect to the information that you read?

Day 6 Reports from spies read and discuss 2 remaining docs top 5 lists -- trends, ideas, values shaping Japan

Video Clips: [|Hirohito's Japan -rare documentary footage] [|Timewatch Hirohito] Notes: only watched the century.

[|The Century Japanese Imperialism] 2:30 - 10:06

Day 7 Interwar Socratic

Days 8 & 9

EQ: What were the primary causes of WWII? Instuctions for activity in googledocs -- student presentations

Next time: Add Nazi-Soviet Pact from ABC Clio Document Context for Czechoslovakia documents

Day 10

What were the most significant developments in the course of WWII?

In groups winnow top 10 list to top 5 list. Share back as class

Day 11



Day 12

Cold War Webquest - in googledocs folder work with laptops in pairs, alone or triples) (next year consider Sean's activity with thermometer)

Day 13

Debrief Cold War Webquest Based upon what you saw in the web quest... 1. How has the balance of power shifted since the end of World War II? 2. What are the major points of conflict and collaboration in the world ? To what extent are points areas ideological? To what extent are they economic?

Have students free write responses to these three questions and then debrief as a class visit the following concepts: - Soviet role in liberation and implications for postwar world - appeasement of Stalin? -primary sources: Iron Curtain Speech, Truman Doctrine Speech, Marshall Plan - importance of "isms" in the Cold War era? Liberalism? Nationalism? Industrialism?

Day 14 End of Cold War EQ: What factors brought and end to the Cold War and the Soviet Union?

[|Losing Soviet Control over Eastern Europe part One]

[|Losing Soviet Control over Eastern Europe]

[|Losing Soviet Control of Eastern Europe 3]

[|The Collapse of the Soviet Union]

[|End of Cold War Prexi]

Below this line -- 12-13

EQs: 1. What domestic and diplomatic challenges were faced by the Weimar Republic in the interwar period? 2. What tools/ methods were used to address these challenges and to what extent did they succeed or fail? In groups of 3-4

1. Based on the reading that you did for homework identify the challenges faced by the Weimar Republic after World War One. •generate list on board of problems. 2. For each problem identify the tools available to rectify the problem and the obstacles to effectively using those tools. • assign problems and obstacles to individual groups. Have groups share their findings on board. 3. Discuss

Day 5 : Same EQs as Day Four. 1. Video Clips for context video clips: [|Threats to Peace] (8 minutes) [|Towards Prosperity and Hope] (3:40) [|Hitler Rise to Power] ((9:00) "Beer Hall Putsch" - imitates "March on Rome", context of Ruhr occupation, Hitler jumps on a table, fires rifle at the ceiling and shouted "The Revolution has broken out". - 5 year sentence but only served one. Weimar is soft on crime. Hitler writes Mein Kampf in prison.

2. Source Documents: • 1 and 2 how do they illustrate the challenges faced by the Weimar • 3, 4 and 5 how do the represents solutions to challenges -- why more attractive than democracy • Introduce - Mein Kampf selections -- read and discuss •election results (6) •conversion and resistance (7 and 8)



Day Two: Interwar Japan EQ: What challenges (real or perceived) did Japan face in the interwar years and what methods were used to address them?

1. Meet in groups. Create googledoc. Share questions from last nights homework and choose 2 to type into your document. 2. Read document. Choose a telling quote. 3. Answer all questions associated with the document. 4. Create a 3-5 sentence summary of your document. 5. Develop a three point thesis that describes and analyzes your the actions of the Japanese in your document. 6. Send out a spy to a neighboring group -- what is going on in their document and how does it align with or contradict what is happening in yours? Add this information to googledoc.



[|Hirohito and Japan]

Day 3 - Interwar Developments: Japan and China -

EQ: 1. What factors and challenges shaped events in China from 1911-1938 2. What challenges (real or perceived) did Japan face in the interwar years and what methods were used to address them?

Agenda 1. Use handout to review developments in China through 1930 to provide context for Japanese developments during the same time period

2. Discuss Documents 1-5 and group findings and questions from Friday. Document #1 Pre WWI - 1930 Document #2 Co-Prosperity Sphere Document #3 Imperial Japan Document #4 The Threat of Japan 1905 Document #5 - Nanking Massacre

[|Group Documents for Interwar Sources]

Video Clips: [|Hirohito's Japan -rare documentary footage] [|Timewatch Hirohito] [|The Century Japanese Imperialism] 2:30 - 10:06



Days 4 and 5 Tuesday and Wednesday May 7 and 8 Weimar Republic and the Rise of Nazism in Germany

[|Threats to Peace] (8 minutes) [|Towards Prosperity and Hope] (3:40) [|Hitler Rise to Power] ((9:00) "Beer Hall Putsch" - imitates "March on Rome", context of Ruhr occupation, Hitler jumps on a table, fires rifle at the ceiling and shouted "The Revolution has broken out". - 5 year sentence but only served one. Weimar is soft on crime. Hitler writes Mein Kampf in prison. 2. Source Documents: • 1 and 2 how do they illustrate the challenges faced by the Weimar • 3, 4 and 5 how do the represents solutions to challenges -- why more attractive than democracy • Introduce - Mein Kampf selections -- read and discuss •election results (6) •conversion and resistance (7 and 8)



Day 6 - Socratic Seminar

Topic will be political, economic and social developments of the interwar period. What are the trends? What factors account for the trends? To what extent are the trends positive or negative for the nations involved? To what extent are the trends positive or negative for Europe and the world at large? Where is their disconnect between motive and action? What does it take to make democracy work and to what extent were these factors absent or present in the world during the interwar period? To what extent have the problems that caused World War One been resolved to what extent do they still need to be addressed.

Thursday May 9

Days 7 and 8 - Causes of WWII

EQ: What were the causes of World War II?

[|Origins of WWII History is Happening Youtube Channel]

Day 9 -Friday Mapping European Theatre 1939-1941 Pacific Campaign

Days 10 and 11 Tuesday and Wednesday

EQs for Days 10 and 11

1. What were the major turning points in the European and Pacific fronts of the war? 2. How do the horrors of war contribute to the rationalization of the policy of appeasement? 3. How did the wartime alliance between the US and USSR set the stage for the Cold War? 4. What were the political, economic and social consequences of World War II

European Theatre 1939-1941 Pacific Campaign
 * || Europe ||  || Pacific ||
 * || Poland 1939 ||  || 1931 Manchuria ||
 * || Fall of France (Vichy vs Occupied) ||  || 1937 Nanking ||
 * || Battle of Britain ||  || 1941 French Indochina ) ||
 * || Balkan ||  || 1941 Pearl Harbor ||
 * || North Africa ||  || 1942 Phillipines, Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island ||
 * || Soviet Union (Leningrad) ||  || Burma - getting close to India ||
 * ||  ||   || 1943 - Guadalcanal (allied victory)

[|The Pacific - Guadalcanal] ||

Allied Victory

[|The Pacific Iwo Jima] || (Stalin wants them to invade France) ||  || Okinawa ||
 * || Europe ||  || Pacific ||
 * || victory in North Africa ||  || war ends in Europe at Berlin - but continues in the Pacific ||
 * || Stalingrad - Germans surrender to Soviets ||  || Iwo Jima
 * || Invasion of Italy
 * || D day

[|Saving Private Ryan DDAY] ||  || A-Bombs [|Bomb Presentation] [|Truman post bomb speech] ||
 * || Battle of the Bulge- war ends in Europe ||  || Surrender



[|Hirohito's Surrender Speech (In Japanese)] ||
 * || Soviets liberate Berlin

[|Treptower Park] ||  ||   ||

Cold War -- How is it a product political,economic, social consequences of the war.



Day 12 - Pacific Front see Days 10 and 11 above

Day 13 - Quiz / Begin Armenian Genocide

Day 14 - Armenian Genocide (Tuesday)

Day 15 Holocaust (Thursday)

Day 16 Holocaust (Friday)