Student Learning Map

  • Topic:World War II & the Holocaust
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:20
  • Grade(s):11
Key Learning: The United States became the arsenal of democracy and played a major role in defeating the dictators of the Axis powers in World War II.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How did the United States become involved in the war, mobilize the nation for war and defeat the Japanese and the Germans?
   
Concept: Rise of dictatorship
Concept: Military events
Concept: Holocaust
Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why did the United States cling to isolationism in response to the rise of dictatorships in the 1930s?

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How did nationalism fuel the rise of totalitarianism? (A)

.How did the policy of appeasement contribute to the outbreak of war in Europe? (A)

How did the Soviet Union\'s non-aggression pact with Germany contribute to the start of hostilities? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

What strategies did the Alies employ to win the war in Europe and liberate the continent? (A)

What strategies did the United States use to turn the tide in the Pacific and defeat Japan? (A)

Why was Blitzkrieg effective? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why were Jews targeted for persecution and annihilation by the Nazis? (A)

What was Hitler\'s" Final Solution"? (A)

Why do you think the Nazi system of genocide was so effective? (ET)

Concept: Mobilizing for defense
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Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did the federal government\'s action influence civilian life during the war?

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How did the economy change during WWII?

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Why were Japanese Americans placed in internment camps? (A)

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Why do you think citizens were more supportive of this war than other 20th Century Wars? (ET)

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Additional Info:

History Alive, United streaming.com, Word wall, additional audio-visual materials, Skillbuilders: maps, charts, graphs, reading study guides, workbook exersices, timeline from Chapters 16 &17 in The Americans

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • Totalitarianism -
  • internment -
  • Holocaust -
  • Battle of Britain -
  • GI Bill -
  • RAF -
  • fascism -
  • genocide -
  • Battle of the Atlantic -
  • Kristallnacht -
  • Nazism -
  • Korematsu v. United States -
  • concentraton camp -
  • selective service -
  • Joseph Stalin -
  • Eastern Front -
  • ghetto. Elie Wiesel -
  • Benito Mussolini -
  • El Alamein -
  • Philip Randolph -
  • Francisco Franco -
  • Auschwitz -
  • Dwight D Eisenhower -
  • OPA -
  • NWLB -
  • Sudetenland -
  • Bloody Anzio -
  • Heinrich Himmler -
  • War Production Board -
  • Neville Chamberlain -
  • D-Day -
  • Josef Mengele. -
  • Omar Bradley -
  • War Bonds -
  • Anschluss -
  • appeasement -
  • George Patton -
  • rationing -
  • WAAC -
  • Battle of the Bulge -
  • nonaggression pact -
  • Harry S Truman -
  • WAVES -
  • Adolph Hitler. -
  • V-E Day -
  • WASP -
  • Rosie the Riveter. -
  • General Douglas Mac Artur -
  • James Doolittle -
  • Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway -
  • Admiral Nimitz -
  • kamikaze -
  • Iwo Jima -
  • Battle of Okinawa -
  • Manhattan Project -
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki -