HISTORY 12

Interwar Years 1919-1939 Unit

• Assignment 2 – “Continuity vs. Change”
  • USA
  • Russia
  • Italy
  • Germany
    • Video notes:  “Weimar Germany”
    • Some key topic terms:
      • Socialists
      • November Criminals
      • Paul Von Hindenburg
      • Reichstag
      • Social Democrats/Independent Socialists/Spartacists/Friekorps (Free Corps)
      • Kapp Putsch
      • Rathenau Murder
      • Invasion of the Ruhr (by France) 1923
      • Passive resistance
      • Brown Shirts vs Red Front Fighters
      • Sturm Abteilung (SA)
      • Munich Putsch
      • Mein Kampf
      • Gustav Stresemann
      • Schutzstaffel (SS)
      • Rohm, Goebbels, Himmler, Speer
      • Reichstag Fire
      • The Enabling Act
      • The Night of the Long Knives
      • Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass/Crystal)
      • Lebensraum
      • Rhineland, Polish Corridor
      • Reichswehr, Wermacht, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine
      • Nuremburg Laws
      • Gestapo
      • Aryan Herrenvolk
      • Gleichschaltung
      • Dachau, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, Theresienstadt
      • Berlin Olympics (1936)
      • Treaty of Rapallo (Russia)
      • Rome-Berlin Axis, Pact of Steel (Italy)
      • Anti-Comintern Pact (Japan)
      • Non-Aggression Pact (USSR)
• Homework:  BLOG POST – analyze the accompanying cartoon (post response by this Friday); be sure to identify:
  • who (leaders/countries) is shown?
  • when was this about?
  • what is the event/what is happening?
  • why is this significant?
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• Readings for Wednesday:
  • Finish “Weimar Germany” video (if not finished in class Wednesday) – finish Wednesday night
  • “Hitler’s Germany” Moodle PDF (Topic 8) – Read THURSDAY morning (A)/afternoon (B)
  • *other PDF Articles and Videos optional
• Assignment 2 – Due week of Monday May 24