Unit 5b: Unresolved Global Conflict 1923-1945

Essential Questions

• How does cooperation and competition between nations impact the international community and the lives of individuals in the countries involved?

  • What caused World World War I and World War II?

  • What impact did technological developments have on World War I and World War II?

  • Can peace come from war?

  • What effects did nationalism and ideology have during the interwar years?

  • What do the human atrocities of the first half of the 20th century tell us about humanity, nationalism, war, and power?

Enduring Understandings

Students understand that...

World War I and World War II led to geopolitical changes, human and environmental devastation, and attempts to bring stability and peace.

Skills

Students will be able to...

• Students will compare and contrast long- and short-term causes and effects of World War I and World War II.

• Students will compare and contrast the technologies utilized in both World War I and World War II, noting the human and environmental devastation.

• Students will examine international efforts to work together to build stability and peace, including Wilson’s Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, and the United Nations.

• Students will examine the Russian Revolution and the development of Soviet ideology and nationalism under Lenin and Stalin.

• Students will examine the role of nationalism and the development of the National Socialist state under Hitler in Germany.

• Students will examine the role of nationalism and militarism in Japan.

• Students will investigate the causes of the Great Depression and its influence on the rise of totalitarian dictators and determine the common characteristics of these dictators.

• Students will examine the atrocities against the Armenians; examine the Ukrainian Holodomor, and examine the Holocaust.

Formative Tasks

WWII

• Graphic Organizer: The M.A.I.N. Causes of WWI (p 23)

• Chart: Describe new weapons and explain the effect on WWI (p 25)

• Primary Source: Life in the trenches diary entries (p 27)  - Students will write diary entries or letters home describing their imaginary experiences

• Chart & Questions: War Casualties - WWI (p 32)

• Examining the Treaty of Versailles

  • Examine/Analyze Treaty Articles

  • Image Analysis: Documents

  • Treaty of Versailles Synthesis Questions

WWII Timeline w/ questions

• Reading & Images: Hitler Invades Poland (blitzkrieg) & WWII Begins

• Document Analysis: The Munich Agreement (p 65)

Holocaust

• Holocaust Key Terms: atrocity, genocide, & anti-semitism

• Genocide Comparison

  • Armenian Genocide page 10

  • The Ukrainian Genocide/Famine – Holodomor page 12

  • The Holocaust page 14

  • Blank 3 way venn diagram

• What was the Holocaust?

  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Introduction to the Holocaust”

  • Questions

• The Nuremberg Trials: Reading, video excerpt, & questions

• 2 Primary Source Readings with questions "The Holocaust: Why Obey?" (p 69)

Poem & Questions: "The Hangman" by Maurice Ogden

Nationalism and the Rise of Dictators

• Between the Wars - Timeline and questions (p 9)

• What were the effects of Japanese imperialism?  - Describe the effects of Japanese imperialism using text, images, and video provided

• Describe the causes of the Great Depression and the impact on the rise of totalitarian dictators.

•  How did the end of World War I impact Germany?

• Documents & Questions: How did Hitler gain, consolidate and maintain power in Germany before the Great Depression?

• Documents & Questions: How did Hitler gain, consolidate and maintain power in Germany after the Great Depression?

• Identify the causes for Japanese imperialism.