Unit Title Causes and Effects of the Second World War - Rise of Totalitarian Governments
CA Standard(s) covered 10.7 - The rise of totalitarian governments after the First World War.
Approximate completion date
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Unit Assignments
Fascism - Alternative assignment: Fascism/Communism Venn Diagram - Comparing and contrasting the political and social ideologies of Fascist and Communist governments
Nuremberg Laws SOAPS - SOAPS Essay
DBQ - Living Under Totalitarianism
Unit Project
World in Crisis Project - Completed in Unit 8
Unit Notes
Rise of Totalitarian Governments
Totalitarian Governments Alternative Assignment - Complete all the Essential Questions to know in complete paragraphs
Unit Exam
Effects of WWI and Totalitarian Government Test
Unit Terms to know
atheism
Bolsheviks,
chancellor
collectives (collective farms),
Comintern
command economy
Communist Party,
Fascism
five year plans
Gestapo
Kellogg-Briand Pact
kulaks
Maginot Line
NEP
Nuremberg Laws
soviet
totalitarian states
war communism
Weimar Republic
Unit People and Events to know
Leon Trotsky
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Heinrich Himmler
Francisco Franco
March on Rome
Great Depression
Great Purge
Essential Questions to know
How do totalitarian governments differ from democracy?
Why did authoritarian states rise in Europe after WWI?
How did the totalitarian leaders, like Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin use censorship and propaganda to support their rule?
What political and economic challenges did the Western world face in the 1920s and 1930s and how did various countries react to these challenges?
What are the similarities and differences between fascism and communism?