Explain why Americans came to believe that American involvement in World War I was a plan devised by profiteering industrialists.
Analyze the stress the Great Depression placed on the ability to the US government to react to foreign events.
Restate what was meant by the statement America First.
Analyze how strict neutrality prevented the United States from helping China in its war against Japanese aggression
INDICATOR UHS 5.1
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Compare and contrast President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s world view with that of Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
Videos:
Hitler Cohorts Lose in Election
The Rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany (GL)
Hitler's Papers: Black Market Brings Documents to Light (GL)
Enemies of Freedom (GL)
Turning Points: Freedom of the Press (GL)
1933: Hitler's First Speech to the Reichstag as Chancellor of Germany (GL)
Images:
Adolf Hitler and His Officials at a Ceremony in Berlin
Adolf Hitler: Chancellor of Germany (1933-1945) (Video Speech)
1933: Hitler's First Speech to the Reichstag as Chancellor of Germany (Video Speech)
Hitler's Speech to the Workers (Video Speech)
Hitler's Speech to the German State (Video Speech)
Pearl Harbor Speech to the Congress of the United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt December 8, 1941
Writing Prompt:
Censorship of Ideas
Concepts
World view
People/Places/Ideas/
Events/Things
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adolph Hitler
Nazism
Hitler’s May Day Speech (1937)
New Deal
Four Freedoms
FDR’s Declaration of War Speech
World View
Compare & Contrast
Read a text of a speech or article to identify key ideas and concepts of the author/speaker.
Set speeches/articles in the context of the time.
Identify audiences of speeches and articles.
Compare key ideas and concepts of a speech given by FDR and Adolph Hitler.
Synthesize a summary composition comparing how FDR saw the world and how Hitler saw the world.
INDICATOR USA 5.2
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Identify and describe key events that resulted in the United States’ entry into World War II
Videos:
Identify the purpose and conditions of sale stated in the Lend-Lease Act.
Identify the purpose and conditions of sale stated in the Cash and Carry law.
Describe reasons Germans would support Hitler in starting a European War and eventually a world war.
INDICATOR USH 5.4
CONTENT/CONCEPT
CRITICAL VOCABULARY
SKILLS
ASSESSMENTS
– only assessments that all teachers in a given course will agree to administer
Describe Hitler’s “Final Solution” policy and identify the Allied responses to the Holocaust.
(THE STATE OF INDIANA MANDATES THAT THIS INDICATOR BE TAUGHT EVERY YEAR IN THIS COURSE)
Videos:
Truman Doctrine President Harry S. Truman March 12, 1947 (Audio Only)
The Causes of World War II: The Early Days of the Nazi Party
Discovery Education Resources
Videos:
Refugees are Turned Away
Jewish Americans in World War II
Skill Builder:
Europe at the Peak of Axis Power
Concepts
Genocide
Anti-Semitism
Rules of War
Rules of Internment for Enemy Prisoners
People/Places/Ideas
Events/Things
“Undesirables”:
Jews
Mentally impaired
Physically impaired
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Slavs
Wannsee Conference
“Final Solution”
Crimes Against Humanity
Nuremburg Trials
Concentration Camp
Death Camp
Gestapo
POW camp
Liberation of Death Camps
Zionism
“Never Again!”
State of Israel
FDR
Harry Truman
Genocide
Mass Murder
Anti-Semitism
International Law
Laws of War
Holocaust
Explain the significance of the “Night of the Broken Glass” in terms of German treatment of European Jews.
Identify the categories of people labeled Undesirables within the Third Reich.
Describe the various attempts to use Undesirables as slave labor or to mass murder them.
Analyze the impact of the fact that the USSR had never signed the Geneva Agreements on the fate of captured Russian and German soldiers.
Analyze conditions and procedures in a Nazi Death Camp.
Describe the fate of most Jews sent to the Death Camps.
Describe efforts of various Europeans including the Danes to prevent the Nazis from killing European Jews.
Explain the role of the SS and especially the Gestapo in eliminating Undesirables.
Describe how the Allied Powers responded to the German liquidation of the Jews and others at the Nuremburg Trials.
Analyze reasons Harry Truman decided to recognize the state of Israel.
