Students will evaluate primary source documents to understand the ideology of the time between key players of history.
Additional important standards that will be addressed will be:
SS.912.W.1.6: Evaluate the role of history in shaping identity and character.
SS.912.W.7.3 Summarize effects of World War I.
SS.912.W. 7.11 Describe the effects of World War II.
SS.912.W.7.4 Describe the causes and effects of the German economic crisis of the 1920s and the global depression of the and analyze how governments responded to the Great Depression.
SS.912.W.912.7.5 Describe the rise of authoritarian governments in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and analyze the policies and main ideas of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Francisco Franco.
SS.912.W.7.6 Analyze the restriction of individual rights and the use of mass terror against populations in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and occupied territories.
SS.912.W.7.7. Trace the causes and key events related to World War II.
SS.912.W.7.8 Explain the causes, events, and effects of the Holocaust (1933-1945) including its roots in the long tradition of anti-Semitism, ideas about race and nation, and Nazi dehumanization of the Jews and other victims.
SS.912.W.7.9 Identify the wartime strategy and post-war plans of the Allied leaders.
SS.912.W.8.6 Explain the background for the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948 and the ongoing military and political conflicts between Israel and the Arab-Muslim world.
Students will further investigate other genocides of the twentieth century including the Armenian Genocide, Cambodian Genocide, the Balkans, Rwanda Darfur. Students will delve deeper into these issues and explore the causes and effects of nationalist conflicts.
SS.912.W.9.3 Explain cultural, historical, and economic factors and governmental policies that created the opportunities for ethnic cleansing or genocide in Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda, and Darfur, and describe various governmental and non-governmental responses to them.
SS.912.A.6.3 Analyze the impact of the Holocaust during World War II on Jews as well as other groups.
SS.912.A.6.7 Describe the attempts to promote international justice through the Nuremberg Trials.
Additional Standard to align with Honors Holocaust Studies
SS.912.S.1.6 Distinguish fact from opinion in data sources to analyze various points of view about a social issue.
SS.912.S.2.10 Identify both rights and responsibilities the individual has to the group.
SS.912.S.7.5 Examine how individual and group responses are often associated with social problems.
SS.912.S.8.7 Define propaganda and discuss the methods of propaganda and discuss the methods of propaganda used to influence social behavior.
SS.912.P.10.4 Discuss psychological research examining race and ethnicity.
SS.912.P.10.3 Discuss the relationship between culture and conceptions of self and identity
SS.912.P.10.14 Examine societal treatment of people with disabilities and the effect of treatment by others on individual identity/status.
SS.912.P.10.6 Discuss how privilege and social power structures relate to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
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