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| | Unit Four:
World at War
The following assignments complement your reading selections from Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction.
Chapter Thirteen:
The Great War
Terms
The following terms have
been extracted from your textbook reading assignments. Using your
textbook, identify each of the following terms in your notebook.
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militarism
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trench warfare
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unrestricted submarine warfare
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total war
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rationing
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propaganda
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armistice
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self-determination
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Identifications
The
following identifications have been extracted from your textbook reading
assignments. Using your textbook, identify each of the following people,
places, and other items in your notebook.
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- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Armenian Massacre
- Triple Alliance
- Triple Entente
- Schlieffen Plan
- Central Powers
- Allies
- Western Front
- Eastern Front
- Fourteen Points
- Treaty of Versailles
- League of Nations
- Woodrow Wilson
- Georges Clemenceau
- David Lloyd George
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Visual
Summary |
Causes of World War I
Task: Students will
create a visual summary for each of the causes of the war including
detailed descriptions.
Materials Needed:
Research
Directions: Identify the
causes of World War I in the format of a bubble cluster/graphic organizer.
For each cause identified, provide a detailed description and a colorful
visual.
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Activity |
Understanding Trench Warfare
Task: Students will
learn what soldiers did in the trenches, both when they were fighting and
when they were not, and create a scrapbook display.
Purpose: To understand
the mix of boredom and terror that made up life in the trenches.
Materials Needed:
Research sources, pictures
Directions: Find a
variety of sources that describe daily life in the trenches: diaries and
letters written by soldiers in the war; photographs of trenches, and
narrative descriptions. For the scrapbook display, you will include some
of the following:
![bullet](../_themes/lisas-expedition/expbul1a.gif) |
Hand-drawn design/picture
of a trench |
![bullet](../_themes/lisas-expedition/expbul1a.gif) |
Short quotes from primary
sources describing the weather, rats, bombardment, loneliness,... |
![bullet](../_themes/lisas-expedition/expbul1a.gif) |
Clear graphic examples |
![bullet](../_themes/lisas-expedition/expbul1a.gif) |
Detailed written
descriptions |
![bullet](../_themes/lisas-expedition/expbul1a.gif) |
Evidence of research |
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Connections
to
Literature |
from
All Quiet on the Western Front
Task: Students will
learn more about the horrors of war, specifically trench warfare.
Materials Needed: Novel
Directions: Read the
novel or excerpt. Complete the following activities.
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Make a chart to note
sensory details--ones that appeal to the five senses--that bring
Bäumer's experiences alive.
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Pretend that you are Paul
Bäumer. Write a letter home to your family, describing your war
experiences and your state of mind.
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Visual
Summary |
Mind Notes
Task: Students will
research the significant world leaders during World War I.
Materials Needed:
Research on each the leaders; picture of the historical figure.
Directions: For each
historical world leader during World War I, research information about his
role and position during the war. affix the picture of the leader in the
notebook, then write a summary of the historical leaders position, views,
etc. as if the individual was thinking about those ideas (bubble
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History
from
Visuals |
Treaty of Versailles
Task: Students will
examine a chart to make interpretations regarding the provisions of the
Treaty of Versailles.
Materials Needed: None
Directions: Recreate the
chart in your notebook. Notice how the provisions are grouped then answer
the following questions.
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Which column shows
provisions limiting Germany as a colonial power?
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Which column shows
provisions limiting the military power of Germany?
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In what ways did the treaty
punish Germany?
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What two provinces were
returned to France as a result of the treaty?
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Imagine how ordinary
Germans might have felt about the treaty. Write a paragraph describing
their thoughts and feelings.
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Chapter Fourteen:
Revolution & Nationalism
Terms
The following terms have
been extracted from your textbook reading assignments. Using your
textbook, identify each of the following terms in your notebook.
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pogrom
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provisional government
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soviet
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socialism
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totalitarianism
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command economy
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collective farms
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kulak
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socialist realism
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civil disobedience
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Identifications
The
following identifications have been extracted from your textbook reading
assignments. Using your textbook, identify each of the following people,
places, and other items in your notebook.
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- Bolsheviks
- V. I. Lenin
- Rasputin
- Joseph Stalin
- Great Purge
- Kuomintang
- Sun Yixian
- Mao Zedong
- May Fourth Movement
- Mohandas Gandhi
- George Orwell
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Chapter Fifteen:
Years in Crisis
Terms
The following terms have
been extracted from your textbook reading assignments. Using your
textbook, identify each of the following terms in your notebook.
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theory of relativity
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existentialism
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surrealism
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jazz
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coalition government
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fascism
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Nazism
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lebensraum
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appeasement
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isolationism
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Identifications
The
following identifications have been extracted from your textbook reading
assignments. Using your textbook, identify each of the following people,
places, and other items in your notebook.
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- Albert Einstein
- Sigmund Freud
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Charles Lindbergh
- Weimar Republic
- Great Depression
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- New Deal
- Benito Mussolini
- Adolf Hitler
- Mein Kampf
- Axis Powers
- Francisco Franco
- Third Reich
- Munich Conference
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Notes |
The
following notes cover material for this unit. |
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Chapter
Sixteen:
World War II
Terms
The following terms have
been extracted from your textbook reading assignments. Using your
textbook, identify each of the following terms in your notebook.
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nonaggression pact
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blitzkrieg
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phony war
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Aryans
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Kristallnacht
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ghettos
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genocide
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Holocaust
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Final Solution
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kamikaze
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demilitarization
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Identifications
The
following identifications have been extracted from your textbook reading
assignments. Using your textbook, identify each of the following people,
places, and other items in your notebook.
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- Charles de Gaulle
- Winston Churchill
- Battle of Britain
- Atlantic Charter
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Pearl Harbor
- Battle of Midway
- Douglas MacArthur
- Battle of Guadalcanal
- Erwin Rommel
- Bernard Montgomery
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Battle of Stalingrad
- D-Day
- Battle of the Bulge
- Nuremberg Trials
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Notes |
The
following notes cover material for this unit. |
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