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1 Unit Nine: World War II & the Cold War ( ) AP European History 1

2 Unit 9: World War II & The Cold War Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday March 27 March 28 March 29 March 30 March Unit Overview 2. Trump Appeal 3. DBQ: Dictatorships and WWII 4. Your brochure 5. Go over test 1. Brochure Work 1. Discussion Communism, Fascism & Nazism 1. Triumph of the Will 2. Weisner: Selling totalitarianism (and absolutism) 1. Weisner Debrief: Louis vs. the Nazis 2. World War II in 42 Maps 3. Timeline HW: McKay #1 & #2 HW: McKay #3 & #4 HW: Brochure due 3/30 HW: Weisner Readings HW: Map Quiz Monday April 3 April 4 April 5 April 6 April 7 1. Map Quiz 2. World War II Overview (Map discussion) 3. Genocide in history HW: McKay #5 1. Reading Quiz (1 5) 2. Debrief Genocide activity 3. Cold War intro 4. 3 Groups 3 positions HW: McKay #6 & online Sherman Reading 1. Debate Prep 2. Cold War: 3 Sides Who s to blame? 3. World War II to Cold War YouTube (10 min) 1. Debate thoughts 2. The Butter Battle Book 3. Containment Intro YouTube (13 min) HW: McKay #7 HW: McKay #8 April 10 April 11 April 12 April 13 April Edsitement - Containment 2. East vs. West 1. Decolonization Case Studies OR Ho Chi Mihn vs. Gandhi 2. Generalizations 1. Atlantic Article Jigsaw 2. Social Transformation LEQ 1. Unit Test HW: McKay #9 HW: McKay #10 2

3 Unit Objectives: World War II & The Cold War 1. Compare and contrast Fascism, Nazism and Communism. Point out 3 similarities as well as one fundamental unique characteristic that each possessed. 2. Explain how economic, political and social factors led to the rise of Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini. 3. Explain how the Nazi party used mass media & propaganda to gain support (rise to power) and legitimacy. 4. Discuss the policies Nazi Germany pursued, and explain how these policies led to World War II. 5. Explain how Germany and Japan conquered enormous empires in World War II and how the Allies defeated them. 6. Explain why World War II was followed so quickly by the Cold War. 7. Explain the causes of the Cold War from the Soviet and Western perspectives. 8. Identify the sources of postwar recovery and stability in Western Europe. 9. Define decolonization. Explain three factors that led to decolonization after World War II and how the Cold War influenced the process. 10. Describe how changes in social relations contributed to European stability on both sides of the iron curtain. 3

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6 AP Euro Daily Objectives Read # Objective(s) / Goal(s) for the Day Pre-class rating My effort Post-Class rating Pre & Post Class rating: 1 = I do not know about it yet. 2 = I know a little bit. 3 = I could teach on it! Effort Rating: 1 = I was distracted today. 2 = I kind of paid attention. 3 = I tried hard! 6

7 Chapter 27: Dictatorship and the Second World War ( ) Reading #1: Authoritarian States Chapter Intro (Page 896) How did communism and fascism change Europe s political landscape? Reading #1: Authoritarian States (Page 898) Point out 4 fundamental similarities as well as 2 differences between communism and fascism. Communism (Soviet Union) Fascism (Germany & Italy) 7

8 Reading #2: Stalin s Soviet Union (Page 900) 1. What were three key steps Lenin and then Stalin took to rebuild the Soviet Union following the Bolshevik s (under Lenin) victory in the Russian Civil war (1921)? 2. Complete the following on the Soviet Five Year Plan. What was it? When was it? Who resisted it? Why? Positive Results Negative Results Continued on the following page... 8

9 3. What was life like in the Soviet society under Stalin? Benefits Women Indoctrination 4. How did Stalin use terror to consolidate his hold on power? What were the effects of such terror? Essential Question: How did Stalin and the Communist Party build a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union? Give three examples. 9

10 Reading #3: Mussolini and Fascism in Italy (Page 908) 1. How did Italy move from a liberal constitutional monarchy in the early 1900s to an Italy under fascist control? 2. How did Mussolini use each of the following to consolidate his hold on power? Repression / Violence Compromise War & Alliances Essential Question: What were the characteristics of the government Mussolini established in Italy in the 1920s & 1930s? 10

11 Reading #4: Hitler and Nazism in Germany 1. Point out three beliefs held by National Socialism (Nazism). 2. What were three key ideas expressed in Hitler s Mein Kampf (My Struggle)? Hitler s Road to Power 3. Create a timeline of the key steps that brought Hitler to Germany s chancellorship in 1933? Continued on the following page... 11

12 State & Society in Nazi Germany 4. What steps does Hitler take to unify Germany under his control? Make note of three distinct means. Popular Support for National Socialism 5. Give three reasons why Nazism gained popular support? 6. Point out how Hitler acquired (or gained influence) in the following lands (Include the date). Rhineland Spain Austria W. Czechoslovakia Poland 1936 Essential Question on the following page. 12

13 Essential Question: What policies did Germany pursue that ultimately led to war in Europe? Reading #5 The Second World War (Page 920) 1. What territories had Germany acquired by 1940? 2. What 2 European states will stymie Hitler s ambitions? 3. What is Hitler s New Order? How will it guide his policies throughout Europe? 13

14 4. Who led Europe s underground resistance? How did Germany respond? 5. What was the Holocaust? 6. How was the Holocaust carried out in the following locations? Germany Poland Soviet Union 7. Why did people participate in the Holocaust? Questions continue on the following page... 14

15 8. Point out three ways Japan s territorial expansion in Asia was similar to Hitler s campaign in Europe? 9. Why did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor? 10. What role did each of the following play in the war in Europe and Africa? U.S. Great Britain Soviet Union Questions continue on the following page... 15

16 Allied Victory 11. What actions did the following powers take in 1944 and 1945 to secure an Allied victory in Europe? U.S. Soviet Union 12. Why did the U.S. choose to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Essential Question: How did Germany and Japan conquer enormous empires? How did the Allies defeat them? Questions continue on the following page... 16

17 Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Page 931) In what ways was the first half of the 20 th century an Age of Catastrophe? What would happen to the Grand Alliance (Allies) that had worked together to defeat Nazism? 17

18 Chapter 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus Reading #6: Postwar Europe & the Origins of the Cold War Chapter Intro (Page 934) 1. What were the origins of the Cold War? How did the Cold War affect international politics? Reading #6: Postwar Europe & the Origins of the Cold War (Page 936) Legacies of the Second World War 2. What were the human costs of World War II? 3. What actions did the Allies take to deal with the following? Germany War Criminals (in Germany) Denazification Peace Settlement & Cold War Origins 4. What U.S. / British actions created distrust between the U.S. and Great Britain and the Soviet Union? 18

19 5. What did the Soviet Union agree to at Yalta? 6. Why did Stalin refuse to allow for free elections in Eastern and Central Europe? West vs. East 7. Where did the Soviet Union consolidate its control? 8. What was the Truman Doctrine? Where was it first applied? Questions continue on the following page... 19

20 9. How did the 1949 Soviet nuclear test affect the U.S.? 10. What was the Marshall Plan? 11. How did two separate (East and West) Germanies get created? 12. What were NATO and the Warsw Pact? 20

21 13. How was a civil war in Korea related to the Cold War? 14. How did the Cold War play out in the U.S.? 15. How did science influence the following? Armaments Space Race Computers Green Revolution Essential Question on the following page

22 Essential Question: What were three reasons World War II was followed so closely by the Cold War? Reading #7: The Western Renaissance: Recovery in Western Europe (Page 944) 1. What were four factors that helped improve Europe economically in the 1950s and 1960s? 2. Why did Spain, Portugal and Greece lag behind economically from the rest of Europe? 22

23 Toward European Unity 3. Explain three factors that helped unify Europe. 4. Contrast Western Europe s consumer revolution with that in Eastern Europe. Essential (Challenge) Question: What were three sources of postwar recovery and stability in western Europe? 23

24 Reading #8: Development in the Soviet Union and the East Bloc (Page 948) 1. What was the East Bloc? 2. How were states in Eastern Europe as well as the Soviet Union held back economically? 3. How did the Soviet Union deal with the following: Private companies & agriculture Yugoslavian independence Revolt in East Germany Art 4. What were three changes Nikita Khrushchev made when he became premier of the Soviet Union in 1955? 24

25 Foreign Policy and Domestic Rebellion 5. How did the Soviet Union deal with the following? Hungary s 1956 attempt to leave the Warsaw Pact People fleeing East Germany Putting Nuclear Missiles in Cuba Essential (Challenge) Question: In what way was development in the Soviet Bloc different than that in Western Europe? Reading #9: The End of Empire 1. What was decolonization? When and Where did it take place? 25

26 Decolonization and the Global Cold War 2. What were three factors that brought an end to overseas European empires? Asia 3. How was tension resolved in the following areas? Indonesia French Indochina India / Pakistan China Middle East 4. How did the following states gain their independence? Egypt Israel 26

27 Africa 5. What difficulties arose in decolonization efforts in the following states? Belgian Congo French Algeria Portuguese Angola & Mozambique British South Africa 6. What is neocolonialism? Essential (Challenge) Question: What led to decolonization after World War II and how did the Cold War influence the process? 27

28 Reading #10: Postwar Social Transformations (Page 963) 1. Point out three ways social class structures changed in Europe following the war. 2. Point out three ways women s lives were changed following the war. 3. Point out two ways youth culture changed. Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Page 967) How had Europe changed by the 1960s? What would shake the West in the 1960s? 28

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