Welcome to-A Glimpse into World War II-Grade 10 Unit
This unit covers an in-depth study of the second world war.
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.
Essential Historical Questions
- What caused the world to engage in a war after the horrifying stories of fighting from World War I?
- What caused the United States to become involved?
- What was the holocaust?
- What caused the United States to become involved?
- What was the holocaust?
Big Ideas
- The beginning of the second world war.
- Hitler's rise to power.
- The United States entering the war.
- The two sides of power in the war.
- The end of the war.
- Hitler's rise to power.
- The United States entering the war.
- The two sides of power in the war.
- The end of the war.
Assessment Plan
- K-W-L chart regarding WWII
- Group exercises involving critical thinking in regards to all countries involved
- Written assessment in regards to primary sources, and overall understanding of the unit
- Written feedback in regards to enjoyment of the unit
- Group exercises involving critical thinking in regards to all countries involved
- Written assessment in regards to primary sources, and overall understanding of the unit
- Written feedback in regards to enjoyment of the unit