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You will use skills of critical reading, analysis and synthesis to pursue knowledge and personal understanding of the major events, individuals and actions leading to and taking place during World War II. This “Learning Pursuit” provides Tasks for you to complete as well as a Resources page of Web sites, videos and reading sources to guide your research efforts.
You will receive daily assignments via the Edline content management system that will be used in conjunction with this learning pursuit.
The Essential Questions for this unit of study are:
Why conflict?
When to collaborate and when to resist?
How does conflict change us?
After conflict, how to find and keep the peace?
The more focused Unit Questions are:
Why do nations go to war from an ESPRAT+G perspective?
How did the war affect the lives of the civilians on both sides?
What was the nature of warfare in WWII? Focus on technology and tactics.
What economic and racial policies did the Nazis pursue in the territories they occupied?
Why was the German war effort so successful in 1939-1940?
Why did the war expand into a global war?
Why did the German offensive against the Soviet Union fail?
In what respects had the challenges facing Nazi Germany changed by the end of 1942? Focus on the ESPRAT+G aspects of the Soviet Union and USA.
Did the resistance movements in occupied Europe play any significant role in the defeat of Germany?
Who were the main collaborators with the Axis Powers? What were their reasons?
Why did the Axis powers lose the war?
What were the immediate consequences of the war?
Why did the Cold War begin?
How did the Marshall Plan lay the groundwork for peace and economic opportunities in Europe?
The IB themes are:
Different types of 20th century wars
Origins and causes of wars
Nature of 20th century wars
Effects and results of 20th century wars
Key Topics, People and Actions
Phoney War
Maginot Line
Blitzkrieg
Battle of France
Dunkirk
Soviet Invasion of Poland and Finland
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Anti-Comintern Pact
Axis Powers-Tripartite Pact
Allied Powers
Luftwaffe
Wehrmacht
Battle of France
Battle of Britain
Battle of the Atlantic
Operation Barbarossa
German Tiger, Soviet T-34, American M4 Sherman tanks
British Spitfire, German Messerschmitt 109E, American P-51 Mustang airplanes
Air Power
Aircraft Carriers (projection of air power)
North Africa campaign
General Rommel
General Montgomery
General Eisenhower
General Charles de Gaulle
Resistance movements in occupied nations
Vichy Government
Final Solution
“Total War”
Italian Campaign
Operation Overlord (D-Day)
Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
United Nations
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Site Creator: David Carpenter
Updated: June 4, 2012
Some of the questions draw from Europe 1870-1991 by Terry Morris & Derrick Murphy
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