Hello! Welcome to 10th grade World History.
In this Digital Unit you will learn about World War II.
Below are key points that you will go over in this unit over the span of six lessons.
In this Digital Unit you will learn about World War II.
Below are key points that you will go over in this unit over the span of six lessons.
HISTORY-SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTENT STANDARD
10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
- Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
- Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II.
- Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
- Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).
- Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
- Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
California COMMON CORE STANDARDS
Reading
9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
9-10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
Writing
9-10.2 Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes.
9-10.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing
products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
9-10.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
9-10.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
9-10.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
9-10.3 Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
9-10.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
Writing
9-10.2 Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes.
9-10.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing
products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
9-10.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
9-10.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
essential questions
1. Why do countries go to war with one another?
(Specifically in World War II)
2. What are the causes of World War II?
(Specifically what actions by Nazi Germany led to World War II)
3. How and why did Nazi Germany pursue racial purity?
(Specifically the Final Solution and Holocaust)
4. How did World War II affect the countries involved after it ended?
(Specifically politically, economically, socially)
(Specifically in World War II)
2. What are the causes of World War II?
(Specifically what actions by Nazi Germany led to World War II)
3. How and why did Nazi Germany pursue racial purity?
(Specifically the Final Solution and Holocaust)
4. How did World War II affect the countries involved after it ended?
(Specifically politically, economically, socially)
BIG IDEAS
1. The events that led to the breakout of World War II.
2. The roles of the major countries and their leaders involved in World War II.
3. The ideology behind Nazi Germany and reasoning behind their actions.
4. The aftermath and consequences of World War II on each country.
2. The roles of the major countries and their leaders involved in World War II.
3. The ideology behind Nazi Germany and reasoning behind their actions.
4. The aftermath and consequences of World War II on each country.
unit assessments
- Students will be able to locate the Allied and Axis powers on a blank map.
- Students will chronologically order important events on a timeline during World War II.
- Students will finish lesson handouts throughout the unit.
- Students will present a project describing each countries leader and their political, diplomatic and military impacts.
- Students will take a test at the end of the unit.
- Students will chronologically order important events on a timeline during World War II.
- Students will finish lesson handouts throughout the unit.
- Students will present a project describing each countries leader and their political, diplomatic and military impacts.
- Students will take a test at the end of the unit.