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Modern World HistoryDay 1Standard(s)MWH-7.1 Analyze the relative importance of economic and political rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, social class, militarism, and imperialism as underlying causes of World War I and World War II, including the role of nationalism and propaganda in mobilizing civilian populations around the world to support the two world wars.MWH-7.2 Analyze the ways that the responses of the governments of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to the economic and political challenges of the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the renewal of international hostilities in the years leading to World War II.Learning Targets/I Can StatementsI can explain the rise of Mussolini and Fascism in Italy and Italy’s role in WWII.Essential Question(s)Who was Benito Mussolini and how did he invent fascism and rise to power in Italy before WWII?Resources Activities or Read the article entitled “Benito Mussolini: Biography” and answer the following questions in complete sentences in your World History notebook:Briefly summarize Benito Mussolini’s life.How did Mussolini’s father influence Benito as a child?Why was Mussolini expelled from the socialist party in Italy during WWI?Who were the “Black Shirts?”Why was Mussolini popular to his people as “Il Duce?”Why did Italy invade Ethiopia in 1935?How did Mussolini view Hitler’s overtures for an alliance in the late 1930’s?What was the “Pact of Steel?”What two things did Mussolini do after the “Pact of Steel” that were influenced by Hitler?What happened to Italy in WWII?What was accomplished at the Casablanca Conference regarding Mussolini in 1943?How did Germany “save” Mussolini in 1943?What happened to Mussolini on April 28, 1945?How did Italians feel about the death of Mussolini?Modern World HistoryDay 2Standard(s)MWH-7.1 Analyze the relative importance of economic and political rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, social class, militarism, and imperialism as underlying causes of World War I and World War II, including the role of nationalism and propaganda in mobilizing civilian populations around the world to support the two world wars.MWH-7.2 Analyze the ways that the responses of the governments of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to the economic and political challenges of the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the renewal of international hostilities in the years leading to World War II.Learning Targets/I Can StatementsI can explain the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany during the 1930’s.Essential Question(s)Who was Adolf HitlerWhat was the Nazi Party?What happened at the Beer Hall Putsch?How did Hitler take over Germany?Resources Activities or Read the article entitled “Adolf Hitler” and answer the following questions in complete sentences in your World History notebook:Where and when was Adolf Hitler born?What happened to Hitler at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts after his father died?What did Hitler do in Vienna after the death of his mother?What happened to Hitler during WWI?Why did Germany lose WWI according to Hitler and many Germans like him?How was Hitler propelled through the ranks of the German Workers Party in 1920?What became the symbol of Hitler’s Nazi Party?What was the SA?What happened at the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923?What was “Mein Kampf?”What two things did Hitler expand on in “Mein Kampf?”What was the Aryan race?What was “lebensraum?”Describe the SS.Who was Eva Braun?Modern World HistoryDay 3Standard(s)MWH-7.1 Analyze the relative importance of economic and political rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, social class, militarism, and imperialism as underlying causes of World War I and World War II, including the role of nationalism and propaganda in mobilizing civilian populations around the world to support the two world wars.MWH-7.2 Analyze the ways that the responses of the governments of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to the economic and political challenges of the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the renewal of international hostilities in the years leading to World War II.Learning Targets/I Can StatementsI can explain the purpose of the Maginot Line that France built during the 1930’s with the aim of preventing another German attack.Essential Question(s)What was the Maginot Line?Why was it built?How did it work?Resources Activities or Read the article entitled “Maginot Line” and answer the following questions in complete sentences in your World History notebook:Where was the Maginot Line built?Name the rivers and frontiers that the line encompassed.Describe the main fortifications as well and the minor ones.How would Germany enter France in 1940?How did Andre Maginot oversee the construction of the defenses that bear his name?List three reasons that the French placed most of their largest fortresses in the northeast.Modern World History Day 4Standard(s)MWH-7.1 Analyze the relative importance of economic and political rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, social class, militarism, and imperialism as underlying causes of World War I and World War II, including the role of nationalism and propaganda in mobilizing civilian populations around the world to support the two world wars.MWH-7.2 Analyze the ways that the responses of the governments of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to the economic and political challenges of the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the renewal of international hostilities in the years leading to World War II.Learning Targets/I Can StatementsI can describe how Hitler was appeased at Munich in 1938.Essential Question(s)How did Great Britain and France avoid war with Germany in 1928 by agreeing to Hitler’s demands at the Munich Conference?Resources Activities or Read the article entitled “Hitler Appeased at Munich” and answer the following questions in complete sentences in your World History notebook:Name the four leaders who signed the Munich Pact on September 30, 1938.What did Neville Chamberlain declare about Munich upon his return to Britain?What was the Sudentenland?What percentage of Czechoslovakia’s coal, iron and steel, and electrical power were given to Germany?What happened to the western provinces of Bohemia and Moravia?What did the puppet regime set up by Germany in these regions do?Who was best remembered as the champion of the Munich Pact?What did Chamberlain believe about Hitler’s personality?After which two countries were occupied by Germany was Chamberlain forced out?Who succeeded Chamberlain as Prime Minister of Great Britain?Modern World HistoryDay 5Standard(s)MWH-7.1 Analyze the relative importance of economic and political rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, social class, militarism, and imperialism as underlying causes of World War I and World War II, including the role of nationalism and propaganda in mobilizing civilian populations around the world to support the two world wars.MWH-7.2 Analyze the ways that the responses of the governments of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to the economic and political challenges of the 1920s and 1930s contributed to the renewal of international hostilities in the years leading to World War II.Learning Targets/I Can StatementsI can describe the reign of Emperor Hirohito of Japan through WWII.Essential Question(s)Who was Emperor Hirohito and how did Japan become involved in WWII under his leadership?Resources Activities or Read the article entitled “Hirohito” and answer the following questions in complete sentences in your World History notebook:How did Hirohito’s portrayal of himself differ from what modern historians believe?When and where was Hirohito born?What did Hirohito do in 1934 and why was it notable?What happened to several thousand South Koreans and leftists after the earthquake of 1923?How many children did he have?What three things caused a crisis for Hirohito soon after he became emperor?Where did all prime ministers of Japan come from after 1932?Describe the Manchurian Incident of 1931.What happened in the city of Nanking, China in 1937?What were many Chinese women forced to do by the Japanese?What was the Tripartite Pact of 1940?What did Japan do to the United States on December 7, 1941?What happened at the Battle of Midway in 1942?Japan continued fighting until the U.S. used what kind of weapons on them in 1945?What happened to Hirohito’s power after WWII?When did Hirohito die? ................
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