3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:Russia and the Former Soviet Republics
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:0
  • Grade(s):9, 10, 11, 12
Key Learning: Russia has been a region subject to the personalities of its leaders.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How did the desires for communism transform into Stalinism and untimately fail?
   
Concept: Geographical Influence
Concept: Early Russia
Concept: Communism/Stalinism
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How has the physical geography impacted its development? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the Byzantine Empire influence early Russia? (A)
How did the individual personalities of the Czars determine the changing development of Russia? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the plight of the lower classes contribute to the desire for revolution? (A)
How did Stalin redirect communism to create a totalitarian state? (A)
Vocabulary:

Siberia, Tundra, Steppe

Vocabulary:

Czar/Tsar, Autocrat, Eastern Orthodox, Romanov, Serfdom, Peter the Great, Catherine II, Nicholas II/Rasputin

Vocabulary:

Stalin/Stalinism, Lenin, Trotsky, Karl Marx, March/November Revolution, Bolshevik, Mensheviks, The Great Purge, Kulaks

Concept: The Cold War
Concept: Era of Change
Concept: Russia Today
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What did the western countries fear about communism that contributed to the Cold War? (A)
How did the Cold War manifest itself in other nations? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What reforms to the Soviet Union did Gorbachev make and how did it contribute to the end of communism? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How has Russia\'s role in the world been redefined? (A)
What challenges do Russia and the former Soviet Republics face? (A)
Vocabulary:

Gulags, Iron Curtain, Dissident, Cuban Missle Crisis, Collectivization, 5 Year Plans

Vocabulary:

Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Perestrioka, Glasnost, Black Markets, Coup, Baltic States

Vocabulary:

Putin, Chechnya, Chernobyl

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  • Siberia -
  • Gulags -
  • Czar/Tsar -
  • Stalin/Stalinism -
  • Putin -
  • Gorbachev -
  • Lenin -
  • Iron Curtain -
  • Yeltsin -
  • Autocrat -
  • Chechnya -
  • Tundra -
  • Dissident -
  • Perestrioka -
  • Chernobyl -
  • Steppe -
  • Eastern Orthodox -
  • Trotsky -
  • Karl Marx -
  • Romanov -
  • Glasnost -
  • Cuban Missle Crisis -
  • March/November Revolution -
  • Collectivization -
  • Black Markets -
  • Serfdom -
  • Coup -
  • Peter the Great -
  • 5 Year Plans -
  • Bolshevik -
  • Catherine II -
  • Baltic States -
  • Mensheviks -
  • Nicholas II/Rasputin -
  • The Great Purge -
  • Kulaks -