Section outline

    • Thursday 9th and Friday 10th:
      1. Submit: Communism Formal Assignment (Friday)
      2. What is Fascism
       - slides

    • Friday 17th: 
      3 Topic - The Weimar Republic
      Learning Objectives: Be able to explain the various problems that the Weimar Republic was facing after WWI, causing instability.

      1. Today's Notes: "The Weimar Republic"
      - slides
      - organizer
      2. Mark update
      3. Begin: Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler (did not get this far)
      4. Homework: questions:

      Read DeMarco p. 84 – 87:How did Chancellor Bruning run the government after the election of 1930?
      p. 87 Ex. 4 a
      Read p. 90. In point form, list reasons why Hitler came to power.(both columns of text)
      Read Global Forces Pages 43-46, do #2 on page 45 and #16 on page 47

    • Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st:
      4 Topic - The Rise of Hitler
       Learning Objectives: Be able explain the steps to Hitler gaining power in Germany.
      We will finish yesterday's topic first

      1. Background slide discussion (not notes): "The Rise Of Hitler"
      slides
      2. NDSAP Twenty Five Point Plan analysis.
      3. Group Discussion: "Hitler Into Power"
      - we will discuss this material together, for deeper understanding, complete the critical thinking exercise at the end....this has been an essay question before

      3. Questions - election results De Marco, p. 87, 
      What happens at the Depression - which parties get more support??? Why
      What happens to the frequency of elections??? Why??

      De Marco - Read p. 90 - p. 95

      p. 90 Why didn’t the two left wing parties, the Socialists and the Communists, combine to defeat the Nazi’s?

      p. 93 How did the Nazi’s control the courts?

      p. 93 What was the Gestapo and what was its role?

      p. 94 What were the Socialist ideas that many in the Nazi’s shared?

    • Wednesday 22nd & Thursday 23rd:
      5 Topic - Hitler's Germany
      Learning Objectives: Be able explain the steps how Hitler consolidated his power in Germany and changed Germany to a totalitarian dictatorship.


      1. We will have a discussion on Hitler's Consolidation of Power and the Night of the Long Knives
      - here are some slides that I will use
      - here is a fact sheet for you with some critical thinking questions for you to complete as notes
      2. Homework:
      Read DeMarco p. 96 - 98
      1. What were the Nazi’s views towards women?

      2. What resistance did the Church make to Hitler and with what results?

      3. How were non-Jewish Germans encouraged to join the boycott against Jewish services?

      4. By 1935, what other forms of discrimination were being practiced against the Jews?

      5. How did the Nazi's ensure that the 1936 Olympic Games would be a triumph for Germany?

      Read Global Forces - p. 51 - 55

      Using the principles of propaganda, make a slogan that a government could use as cell phone text message to increase their popularity.

      Quiz Wednesday - Weimar Germany and the Rise of Hitler

    • Monday 27th: (Friday 24th  was a NID)
      1. Analyzing Propaganda
      2. Rise of Hitler Part II

    • Tuesday 28th - Monday 3rd:
      6 Topic - Antisemitism in Nazi Germany
      Learning Objectives: Be able to explain the roots of anti-semitism in Nazis Germany. Be able to explain the the increasing impacts on Jews living in Nazis Germany up to the beginning of Hitler's "Final Solution" - the Holocaust.
      1. Today's Notes - "Anti Semitism Under Hitler"
      - slides
      - organizer
      4. Homework: De Marco p. 99 - 100
      1 How did Hitler violate the Treaty of Versailles?

      p. 101 Ex. 6 a & b

      4 By 1939 to what extent had Hitler achieved autarky?

    • Tuesday 4th - Wednesday 5th:
      1. Formal Assignment - Nazi Propaganda

    • Thursday 6th:

      1. Causes of WWII Part1 (Made it to Spanish Civil War)