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examine and interpret primary and secondary source documents;

analyze political cartoons, political advertisements, pictures, and other graphic media;

analyzing the Holocaust (Hitler’s “final solution”), its impact on Jews and other groups, and the postwar trials of war criminals.

using maps, globes, artifacts, and pictures to analyze the physical and cultural landscapes of the world and interpret the past to 1500 A.D. (C.E.);

using maps, globes, artifacts, and pictures to analyze the physical and cultural landscapes of the world and to interpret the past since 1500 A.D. (C.E.);

Despite initial Axis success in both Europe and the Pacific, the Allies persevered and ultimately defeated Germany and Japan.

The Holocaust is an example of prejudice and discrimination taken to the extreme.

What was the Holocaust?

Anti-Semitism

Aryan supremacy

Boycott of Jewish stores

Threats

Segregation

Imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in concentration camps and death camps

Liberation by Allied forces of Jews and others who survived in concentration camps

Anti-Semitism

Why did the Holocaust occur?

History of anti-Semitism

Hitler’s belief in the master race

Final solution: Extermination camps, gas chambers

Identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary sources to make generalizations about events and life in world history.

Use maps, globes, artifacts, and pictures to analyze the physical and cultural landscapes of the world and to interpret the past.

Analyze trends in human migration and cultural interaction.

Diagrams

Photographs

Maps and other visual images reflect changes over time.

The student will demonstrate skills for historical and geographical analysis and responsible citizenship, including the ability to a) identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary source documents, records, and data, including artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, journals, newspapers, historical accounts, and art, to increase understanding of events and life in the United States; b) evaluate the authenticity, authority, and credibility of sources; c) formulate historical questions and defend findings, based on inquiry and interpretation; d) develop perspectives of time and place, including the construction of maps and various timelines of events, periods, and personalities in American history; e) communicate findings orally and in analytical essays or comprehensive papers; f) develop skills in discussion, debate, and persuasive writing with respect to enduring issues and determine how divergent viewpoints have been addressed and reconciled; g) apply geographic skills and reference sources to understand how relationships between humans and their environment have changed over time; h) interpret the significance of excerpts from famous speeches and other documents; i) identify the costs and benefits of specific choices made, including the consequences, both intended and unintended, of the decisions and how people and nations responded to positive and negative incentives.

Specific groups that are the object of hatred and prejudice often face increased discrimination during wartime.

What was the Holocaust and who were its victims?

Jews

Gypsies

“Undesirables” (homosexuals, the mentally ill, political dissidents)

Identify, analyze, and interpret primary and secondary source documents, records, and data to increase understanding of events and life in the United States.

Formulate historical questions and defend findings, based on inquiry and interpretation.

Interpret the significance of excerpts from famous speeches and other documents.