Resources

Mussolini & His Troops

Note: Remember to stay focused on your questions. You are not researching for dates, battles and historical events that don’t support your task. You are scanning these resources for information that connects to your questions. While these are reliable resources, always be information literate to look for bias and the point of view of the authors. Begin your research by using the books in the library and our online databases.

|Background Reading & Videos|

• History of World War I

• History of World War II

• CasaHistoria

• World History (your textbook)

• Flow of History

• Student Created History Wiki WW I to Start of Cold War

• Books: Night, The Book Thief, The Diary of Anne Frank

• Movies: Online Videos

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|Resources to Understand Rise of Dictators|

WW I and Aftermath> Events that supported the rise of dictatorships for everyone to review:

• Wikipedia on WWI

• Wikipedia on Aftermath of WW I

• Treaty of Versailles- Summary (read to the end of the article)

• The Aftermath of WW I

• After WW I

• Legacy of WW I (main points that you will need to research further)

• End of WW I and Legacy

• Overview of WW II

• Causes of WW II

• Effects on Society

• Growth of Nationalism (Read just first two paragraphs)

• Rise of Totalitarianism

• Rise of Fascism

• National Socialism (Nazism)

• The Great Depression

• Online Video: 6 Months That Changed the World

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Hitler>

• Rise to Power

• Rise to Power II

• Directory of Sites

• Biography

• Biography II

• Hitler Youth

• Nazi Propaganda

• Nazi Propaganda II

• Online Video: Living Inside the Reich

• Online Video: Speech to Youth (English subtitles)

Mussolini>

• Kingdom of Italy

• Italian Fascism

• Biography

• Rise to Power

• Building A Dictatorship

• Italian Economy Under Fascism

• Online Video: Mussolini & Related Videos

Stalin>

• Biography

• Biography II

• Biography III

• Background

• Soviet Propaganda

• Online Video: Stalin Propaganda

Military Dictatorship of Japan>

• • Rise of Militarism & Nationalism

  • Rise of Militarism

  • Rise of Militarism II

  • March to Militarism

  • March to Militarism II

  • Economic Weakness

  • Nationalism

• • Online Video: Japanese Expansion

End of WW I & Treaty of Versailles>

• League of Nations Background

• League of Nations Weaknesses

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Versailles II

• Effects of Treaty of Versailles

• Effect on Hitler

• Review of Treaty

• Overview of Treaty Effects

• Online Video: Treaty of Versailles

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The Communist Revolution in Russia> Learn how the revolution lead to the Czar being replaced by Vladimir Lenin who was an absolute ruler himself followed by Joseph Stalin.

• Wikipedia Russian Revolution

• Vladimir Lenin

• Russian Revolution

• Russian Revolution II

• BBC on Russian Revolution

• Revolution Simulation

• Directory of Sites

|Search Engines, Encyclopedias & News Sites|

Once you come up with questions and specific topics that interest you, use Mahalo where the searches are human researched and Google using the advanced setting to filter your results using SafeSearch. Use the school encyclopedia subscription as well. You also will find videos online but you will need to be very careful about the topic covered and who created them. As always when searching on the Web, be careful that inappropriate content might show up.

Video Search Sites:

• Blinkx

• Google Video Search

• DocuWatch

News Sites:

• BBC

• New York Times

• CNN

• USA Today

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