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“Instead of unity among the great powers – both political and economic – after the war, there is complete disunity between the Soviet Union and the satellites on one side and the rest of the world on the other. There are, in short, two worlds instead of one.” Charles E. Bohlen, 1947
Unit Thirteen: World War II and Aftermath
Chapter 28, 29, 30, 31, 33
Key Ideas: The end of World War I did not mean the end of upheaval for Europe and the new Soviet Union. Europe was shaken to its core by the carnage of the war. An entire generation of Europeans—those lucky enough to have survived the fighting—was disillusioned by the experience. A tumultuous and disputed settlement to the war left many people uneasy, even when prosperity apparently returned in the 1920s. Scientific discoveries and cultural innovations only added to the anxiety by challenging accepted ideas of the world order. The stock market crash and Great Depression displayed the disadvantages of the world’s interdependence by bringing suffering to untold millions. Benito Mussolini in Italy and Adolf Hitler in Germany created totalitarian dictatorships that fed off a fear of chaos. On the other end of the political spectrum, Joseph Stalin built his own dictatorship, one that aimed at destroying the established European order. It was truly an age of anxiety.
Though the conflict centered on Europe, the Great War shifted the political, social, and economic landscape of the entire world. In the long run, perhaps the greatest impact was felt in the colonies and former colonies of the Great Powers. Indians and Africans who fought in the war felt their contributions proved they were ready for independence. China and Japan, which had both been on the margins of the war, now believed themselves on par with the European powers. Pre-existing nationalist and independence movements in these regions were inflamed, and new ones arose. Latin America, on the other hand, found itself faced with a new imperialist threat after a century of independence: the United States. As states in these regions struggled to develop their identities, the global economic crisis of the Great Depression made the challenge even greater.
From the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the late summer of 1945, the people of the world suffered through fourteen years of horrible war and devastating deprivation. To an even greater extent than the Great War, the Second World War was truly a global conflict. Unfortunately, the number of dead and wounded would also be much greater in the second confrontation. Civilians also suffered to a much greater extent. Relations between imperialist nations and their colonies were strained, finally, to the breaking point. Gender relations were transformed once again by international warfare. To the horror of many, the end of World War II led directly into the uncertainty of the cold war and the ever-present nightmare of the atomic age.
Calendar of Activities and Assignments:
24-25 April: Introduce the unit – with quotes and images for students to consider. Images of art to consider, architecture, music – what does this period of history look like, sound like…students maintain a log of their observations to a variety of sources. Use your e text and read/listen to the Chapter Opener as well as the Place and Time. All of the information combined should expose a time period of considerable unrest – as old institutions are challenges – and a new world is born. It will happen in Europe – and it will happen around the world. Assign 28.1 (Photomontage Dadaism, Surrealism - 2 questions, Einstein - 2 questions)
26, 29 April: Read/listen to your e text, 28.1 Read/listen to your e text, 28.2 and 28.3. These sections will address the circumstances in European nations like Italy, Russia, and Spain – and then Germany.
Assign 28.1 (Unemployment 1928-1938, 4 questions) 28.2 (Mussolini – 2 questions, Joseph Stalin and Nikolai – 1 question). Assign 28.3 (Kristallnacht - 2 questions, Kristallnacht Direction primary source – 2 questions).
30 April, 1 May: Discussion of the parts of Fascism – PowerPoint, notes. Rise of the Nazi party discussion – voting information. Explore the multiple causes of Hitler’s rise to power.
2-3 May: Read/listen to your e text, 29.1, 29.2. Be sure to listen to the Chapter Opener and Time and Place. Focus on Chapter 29, Lesson 2. Read/listen to your e text, 29.3/29.4 What happened after the war in China and Latin America? Read posted article: Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang. Assign 29.2 (Gandhi Biography – 4 questions).
6-7 May: World at War DVD – Episode One – A New Germany, roughly 35 minutes with guide. Assign 30.1 (German and Italian Expansion – 4 questions, Munich Conference – 2 questions.) See posted historical evaluation of term: appeasement.
8 May: World at War, vol. 2) France Falls! What is next?
9 May: (World at War, The Final Solution) Read the speech of Heinrich Himmler. What did Himmler mean when he said, “We do not want, in the end, because we destroyed a bacillus, to be infected by the bacillus and to die”? World at War DVD selections dealing with the Warsaw Ghetto, guide to be completed. Assign 30.4 (Major Nazi Death Camps – 3 questions, Eyewitness to the Holocaust – 2 questions.)
10 May: Who won the war? Why did the Allies win the war?” and “Why did the Axis powers lose the war?” Turning points in the war. (World at War, vol. 3 and 5) Assign 30.5 (Human Cost to the War – 2 questions, Omaha Beach – 2 questions, Final Months of the War – 2 questions)
13-14 May: The Cold War. Consider some media. Was it really just a “war of words?” Some DBQ work. Consider The War of the World, by Niall Ferguson.
15-16 May: Text pages 688-692, 693-695. Life during the Cold War. Consideration of several documents. Some DBQ work. Consider The War of the World, by Niall Ferguson. Work on extended responses together.
17 May: Unit Test. (30 Multiple Choice questions, 5 short answer, 1 extended response)
Extended Response: How did conflict influence the political relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War? Make sure you write about at least three events throughout Chapters 31 and 33 that caused conflict, and how one of those events influenced their relationship for the better or for the worse.
Historical Terms and Concepts to Know Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?
Adolf Hitler, “lost generation,” Otto Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Werner
Heisenberg, Cubism, Picasso, Gauguin, Bauhaus, Depression, Keynesian economics, Reds vs. Whites,
New Economic Policy, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Five Year Plan(s), collectivization, the Great Purge, Fascism,
Mussolini, Nuremberg Laws, anti-Semitism, Kristallnacht, pogroms, Indian National Congress, Muslim League, (Mahatma) Gandhi, ahimsa, satyagraha, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Amritsar massacre, Sun Yatsen, May 4th Movement, Mao Zedong, Guomindang, Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), Long March, Maoism vs. Marxist-Leninism, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism , Gertrude Stein, Erich Maria Remarque, idea of progress, Walter Gropius, T.S. Eliot, British salt tax in India, Black Thursday - 24 October 1929, right to self determination, Beer Hall Putsch, Spartacist Uprising, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, The Spirit of Death Looks On, The Hollow Men, Paul Gauguin.
Axis, Allied powers, Manchuria, invasion of China, Rape of Nanjing, Tripartite Pact, appeasement,
Anschluss, Munich Conference, Nonaggression Pact , Warsaw Pact, Blitzkrieg, Rhineland, U-boats, Luftwaffe, the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, Stalin, Stalingrad, lend-lease program, “a date that will live in infamy,” D-Day, the Final Solution, Wannsee Conference, “comfort women,” Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, N.A.T.O., United Nations, “November crime,” Neville Chamberlain, Battle of Britain, “General Winter,” Stalingrad, Midway, Magic, Battle of Okinawa, Vichy government, “genocide,” Raphael Lemkin, Auschwitz, COMECON, United Nations Charter, Spanish Civil War, Ethiopia, Sudetenland, Ardennes, Maginot Line, “Peace in our time,” "scorched-earth," Panzer (Achtung Panzer), cash-and-carry, Stalin's "scorched-earth" policy, lebensraum, Anschluss, “Phony War”- sitting war, Reinhard Heydrich, Panzer, heavy industry, de-Stalinization, détente, dissident.