Mr



Mr. Ramienski

World War II

Project

And Study Guide

Student Name: ______________________ Seat number: ___________

Period: ____________________________

Date Turned In: ____________________

Unit 3, Early Aggression

Day 0, Friday, 18 September 2015

Lesson 3, The Rise of Hitler,

Issue Date: Friday, 12 September 2015

Due date, Thursday, 24 September 2015

If turned in on Friday, 25 September 2015, -10%

If turned in on Monday, 28 September 2015, -20%

If not turned in by Monday, 28 September 2015, NO CREDIT “0”.

WWII PROJECT (Formerly HW15)

Directions: Identify the following Nazis.

1. You will form into 3 groups-each group will be no smaller than 5 -not larger than 7

2. You will elect a leader-a "PROJECT LEADER"

3. You will select 4 Nazis to identify.

4. You will work with the other students in your group, share information and become knowledgeable on all 20 Nazis.

5. You will have your leader to help with management and selection. He/she will split up the personalities making sure all are covered and you all have access to the information prior to the graded exercise on the due date.

6. You are allowed to cut and paste information from the internet

7. You are allowed to collaborate on this assignment

8. If no information is available, state so.

9. Be prepared for graded warm up/quiz on the due date

Value:

Project

A. 100 points, project grade.

1. Each personality card is worth 10 points=40 points

2. The graded exercise given on the due date will be worth 60 points.

3. Both grades will be added together for the project grade.

B. 100 points, leadership, management, participation grade-also a project grade

1. The student project manager will receive an additional project grade

a) The grade will be based on 100 points

b) 50 points will be based on ability to provide clear guidance and divide the work in an equitable manner

c) 50 points will be based on every student turning in a complete project on time –a penalty of -5 points will be assessed for each student failing to turn in a project on time on the due date.

2. Each student participant will receive a participation grade

a) 50 points on enthusiasm/supporting the group-turn nothing in turn in less than satisfactory work-get lousy grade

b) 50 points awarded by the student project leader-based on your cheerfulness, teamwork, imagination and getting things in on time

I. The Nazis

1. Max Amann 2. Martin Bormann 3. Philipp Bouhler 4. Adolf Eichmann

5. Hans Frank 6. Joseph Goebbels 7. Hermann Goering 8. Karl Hanke

9. Rudolf Hess 10. Heinrich Himmler 11. Adolf Hitler 12. Reinhard Heydrich

13. Rudolf Jung 14. Ernst Roehm 15. Alfred Rosenberg 16. Franz Xaver Schwarz

17. Gregor Strasser 18. Julius Streicher 19. Fritz Thyssen 20. Fritz Todt

II. Format:

Picture

a. Provide full name

b. Birth/Death dates

c. Place of Birth/place of death

d. Date Joined the Party

e. Party Job (if any)

f. Government Job (if any)

g. Interesting facts

III. Example:

STUDENT NAME: _____________________________________

11. Adolf Hitler

[pic]

a. Adolf Hitler

b. Birth/Death dates : 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945

c. Birth: Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, Death: Berlin Germany

d. Date Joined the Party: October 19, 1919, member number 555 (actually number 55)

e. Party Job (if any): Führer of the National Socialist Party, 29 July 1921 until death in 1945

f. Government Job (if any): German Chancellor 30 January 1933; Führer und Reichskanzler (leader and chancellor) 2 August 1934 until death in 1945.

g. Interesting facts: Activist, Writer, Painter, Politician; Married to Eva Braun; name "Adolf" comes from Old High German for "noble wolf". In the final days of the war, Hitler and his new wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin, as the city was overrun by the Red Army of the Soviet Union.

Last known relatives living in New York on Long Island.

Student Name: _________________________ Seat Number: _________

Period: _______________________________

Date: _________________________________

World War II Course

Nazi Leadership

THESE ARE "SAMPLE QUESTIONS" I MAY BE ASKING

Directions: Read and answer the questions

Value: 60 points – each question is worth 4 points

1. In 1938, he founded a state labor organization combining government firms, private companies and the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service), for the construction of the "West Wall", later renamed the "Siegfried Line", for the defense of the Reich territory. On March 17, 1940, he was appointed Reichsminister für Bewaffnung und Munition ("Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions"). After the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, he was appointed to manage the restoration of the infrastructure of captured Soviet territories. He was killed in a plane crash in 1942

2. After hearing Adolf Hitler speak, he joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). He later admitted: "it was political love at first sight". Hitler also admired him appointed him as head of Sturm Abteilung (Storm Section). He also joined with Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutz Staffeinel, in setting up Germany's concentration camps. Prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, he was placed in charge of the Luftwaffe and took credit for the quick defeat of France, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg in the summer of 1940. However, he failed to stop the British evacuation of Dunkirk.

3. German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and a senior official in Nazi Germany. He was prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in perpetrating the Holocaust during his tenure as Governor-General of occupied Poland.

4. He was Adolf Hitler's Sergeant; became chairman of the German Nazi party in 1922 and president of the Reichspressekammer (Reich Media Chamber) in 1933. He also led the publishing company Eher-Verlag, which, among other things, published the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.

5. It was during a speech that Hitler gave the purge of the Sturm Abteilung (SA) its name: “Night of the Long Knives” (a phrase from a popular Nazi song). In his speech, Hitler explained: "In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I become the supreme judge of the German people. I gave the order to shoot the ringleaders in this treason." Who was the leader of the SA, shot on Hitler’s orders?

6. Intellectually influential member of the Nazi party; he held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. He is also known for his rejection of Christianity. At Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and executed by hanging as a war criminal.

7. On January 20, 1942, he invited senior officials from state and party offices to a conference in Wannsee, Berlin. He revealed to them his plan for the "Final Solution,” where eleven million Jews would be held in transit ghettos, then sent east to form work gangs to build roads. Many would "...doubtless …fall away through natural reduction..." and those who survived would "...be dealt with appropriately..." He died on June 4 from "wound infection,” caused in an assassination attempt. Hitler believed this man was the truest Nazi-one with an iron heart.

8. Virulent anti-Semite newspaper publisher, he was the publisher of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm released other anti-Semitic books. He carried a whip to “hit” Jews”. After the war, he was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed.

9. Wounded twice during WW I, later became an airplane pilot. After the war, he joined the Freikorps, a right-wing organization of ex-soldiers for hire, involved in violently putting down Communist uprisings in Germany. At the University of Munich, he studied political science and came under the influence of the Thule Society, a secret anti-Semitic political organization devoted to Nordic supremacy. He was also influenced by Professor Karl Haushofer, a former general whose theories on expansionism and race formed the basis of the concept of Lebensraum (increased living space for Germans at the expense of other nations). After hearing Adolf Hitler speak in a small Munich beer hall, he joined the Nazi Party, July 1, 1920, becoming the sixteenth member. After his first meeting with Hitler, he said he felt "as though overcome by a vision." Deputy Führer and considered to be the number 3 man in Hitler's Germany after Göring. Mysteriously, he fled Germany in 1941 attempting to bring about peace between Germany and England. He would be the last Nazi to remain in Spandau prison, finally committing suicide in 1987.

10. Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. He was one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers. He remained with Hitler in Berlin to the very end, and following the Führer's suicide he served as the Third Reich's final Chancellor—albeit for one day. He allowed his wife, Magda, to kill their six young children. Shortly after, both committed suicide.

11. What position did Franz Xaver Schwarz hold in the Nazi party?

12. One version of the story has this publisher renaming Hitler’s political treatise to “Mein Kampf”. Another version has this man, Hitler’s secretary being the literal “writer” of the work-taking down Hitler’s dictation.. Select these TWO men.

13. Karl Hanke oversaw, with brutal fanaticism, the futile and militarily useless defense of which eastern German city during the final days of World War II?

14. Which Nazi did Martin Borman in effect replace when he became Head of the Party Chancellery?

15. Three of the following Nazis were not born in Germany. Which one was born in Egypt?

16. Which of the following Nazis was not born in the German state of Bavaria? Hint: he was Hitler’s personal lawyer and may be behind the story of Hitler’s “Jewish” roots”. He brutalized Poland during WWII.

17. What was Adolph Hitler’s real name?

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