CURRENT UNIT - WWII
​Class Calendar


Wednesday, May 2
  • Main Idea: The rise of totalitarian dictators, Mussolini
  • Review the characteristics of a totalitarian dictator
  • Notes: Mussolini and Italy pre-World War II
  • Assignment: Reading  Weimar Republic Reading.   Due 5/3

Thursday, May 3
  • Main Idea: The Weimar Republic and Great Depression
  • Read and discuss: Heinrich Hauser, "With Germany's Unemployed" p. 163-164 (Sherman Text)
  • Discuss the Weimar Republic Reading and Notes about the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism in Germany.

Friday, May 4 = TCA DAY OF SERVICE - NO CLASSES

Monday, May 7 - Wednesday, May 9
  • Main Idea: Research and Present the Key Events of WWII
  • Small groups will research and create presentations about each of the main sections of chapter 17 (p562-594)  Each group is responsible for defining the terms of the section and answer the essential question.  A grade will be assigned for the quality of notes and the presentation.

Thursday, May 10
  • Main Idea: Recap the timeline / places of World War II
  • Notes & Discussion about World War II

Friday, May 11
  • ​Main Idea: Post-World War II events and characteristics
  • Read and Discuss "The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan" p. 193-194
  • Quiz (May use Notes) on World War II

Monday, May 14 - Tuesday, May 15
  • Main Idea: Review Semester Essential Questions 
  • Books Due Thursday, May 17

Thursday, May 17 - Friday, May 18
  • Main Focus: Semester Review
  • Q&A
 
Wednesday, May 23 (PM Session) = 6th Hour Final

Thursday, May 24 (AM Session) = 7th Hour Final

Unit Homework & Assessments:

  • Due 4/4: Have completed 2 readings: (1) "The Origins of World War I: Militant Patriotism" p. 156 (Sherman); (2) "Germany and the Coming of War" p. 156-157 (Sherman) AND Chapter 14.1-14.2
  • Due 4/6: "Origins of World War I" Viewpoints Due / Seminar.
  • ​Due 4/17: Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" reading notes, summaries of the 14 points.
  • Due 4/18 Bonus: Maps of World War I Due
  • Due 4/19: Read and take notes on Chapter 10.5 (p 348-353).  1. What were the major obstacles to progress in Russia? 2. Explain why Russian tsars followed a cycle of absolutism, reform and repression. 3. How did Russia industrialize?  4. Why did the problems on industrialization contributed to the outbreak of revolution in Russia?
  • Due 4/24: The Collapse of Tsarist Russia Viewpoints / Reading Guide.  Russian Revolution - The Collapse of Tsarist Russia Viewpoints Assignment Sheet
  • Due 4/27: (1) Read 482-483 "Building the Communist Soviet Union" How did the government and the economy under Lenin differ from "pure" communism? How did power transfer from Lenin to Stalin?  (2) Read Ch 16.4 (p. 542-549) Answer the checkpoint questions and define the terms. 2 column notes.

Unit 11: World War II and Cold War

UNIT HOMEWORK AND ASSESSMENTS:
- Due 4/27 = World War I and Russian Revolution Test.
- Due 4/20 = Weimar Republic reading notes. Reading Guide Sheet. (Work time on 4/29)
- Due 5/4 = "A World At War" Reading due.  WWII Reading Guide Sheet.
- Due 5/6 = "Cold War: How did it begin? end?" Reading due. Cold War Reading Guide Sheet.
- Due 5/7 = Cold War Project Due; Presentations begin. 
Class Calendar
Tuesday, April 28: PARCC Testing Day

Wednesday, April 29:
  • Focus: Weimar Republic

Thursday, April 30: No Homework Night / Totalitarian Sim.
  • Focus: Rise of Totalitarianism in Germany (Fascism / Nazism)
  • Discuss the Weimar Reading
  • Notes on the Rise of Totalitarianism, Facism, Nazism

Friday, May 1 - Monday, May 4:
  • Focus: World War II Introduction.
  • Assignment: Read "A World at War" and complete the reading guide. Due Monday, May 4 (We will have a Socratic Seminar on Monday, 5/4)

Tuesday, May 5 - May 6:
  • Focus: Cold War Introduction
  • Introduce the Cold War
  • Assignment: Read and take notes on "The Cold War: How did it start? How did it end?"  Reading Guide Sheet. Due May 6th.

Thursday, May 7:
  • Focus: Cold War
  • Project Presentations - Cold War Project

Friday, May 8:
  • Focus: Cold War
  • Project Presentations - Cold War Project

Monday, May 11 - Tuesday, May 12:
  • Structured Review Time

Wednesday, May 13: Senior Breakfast / No School

Thursday, May 14 - Friday, May 15:
  • Independent Review

May 18-21: Final Exams.
Unit Resources

KEY NOTES:

HAND OUTS:

READINGS:
  • Kagan, Western Heritage:  Ch 26 (p. 895-926); Ch 27 (p. 935-962); Ch 28 (p.965-990)
  • “Weimar Republic” CRF (Hand Out)
  • “Hitler Denounces the Versailles Treaty.” P. 956 Kagan
  • “A World At War” Handout.
  • Winston Churchill: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat", May 13,1940
  • Fred Baron, “Witness to the Holocaust” Sherman, p. 179-180.
  • “The Cold War: How Did It Start? How Did It End?” Handout
  • Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech (1946) and Stalin’s Reply to Churchill in the Soviet Newspaper Pravda (1946)
  • Ch 30 John Lukacs, “The Short Century—It’s Over.” P. 214-215


KEY TERMS:
  • Fascism
  • Weimar Republic
  • Hyper-inflation
  • National Socialist Party
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Mein Kampf
  • Great Depression
  • Paul von Hindenburg
  • Young Plan
  • Enabling Act
  • Lebensraum
  • Nuremberg Laws
  • Kristallnacht
  • Mussolini
  • Nazi-Soviet Pact
  • Appeasement
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Maginot Line
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Winston Churchill
  • Battle for Britain
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Erwin Rommel
  • El Alamein
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Final Solution
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Battle of Stalingrad
  • D-Day
  • Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki
  • Cold War
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • Iron Curtain
  • NATO
  • Warsaw Pact
  • Brezhnev Doctrine
  • Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Détente
  • Ronald Reagan
  • “The Evil Empire”
  • “Star Wars”
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Vladimir Putin



ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
  1. Describe how World War I and subsequent economic problems like the Great Depression created a fertile environment for the rise of a political figure like Hitler.
  2. Why did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement in the 1930s? What were its main features? Did the appeasers buy the West valuable time by their actions at Munich in 1938?
  3. How was Hitler able to defeat France so easily in 1940? Why was the air war against Britain a failure? Why did Hitler invade Russia and why did it ultimately fail? Could it have succeeded?
  4. Why did Japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor? What is significant about the American intervention in the war?
  5. Describe how concentration camp prisoners developed psychological means to cope with and survive their experience. How did these camps reflect the theory and practice of Nazi totalitarianism?
  6. What role did the atomic bomb play in the surrender of Japan? How was its use justified by the Allies? Were there any viable alternatives? Why or why not?
  7. Why did the Cold War occur? What policies characterized the Cold War? Could it have been avoided? Who won?

PROJECTS / SKILLS / DEBATE / DISCUSSION: