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1. The Rise of Fascism
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ NYLearns.orgUniversity at _ Buffalo Home_Login_Help _ _ _ Curriculum Educational Assessment Professional Additional _ Resources Development Links _ _ Learning Experience/Unit _ _ Printer Friendly Version Send to a Friend _ The Rise of Fascism _ _ Learning Context/ Introduction: The road to World War II begins at the Palace of Versailles following World War I. The peace treaty ending the First World War put into place the framework for the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy. This lesson will explore the variety of events and the people...

2. Holocaust Heroes
...and VCR, or DVD and DVD player Computer with Internet access Procedures 1. Begin the lesson with a discussion of World War II and the Holocaust. What caused World War II? What happened during the Holocaust? Students' ideas may include the following: + World War II was caused by the growing tide of fascism in Europe and imperialism in Japan. The United States entered the war when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. + Adolf Hitler and the Nazis sent six million European Jews to their deaths in organized killings known as the Holocaust. Families were separated and destroyed. 2. Watch Holocaust Heroes. Tell stu...

3. The ABC'S of Canadian History
...cutive citizenship - nazism - xenophobia controversy - opinion customs - optimism culture - pessimism conscription - petition consolidation - peace discipline - protectionism discrimination - restriction dispute - radical debt - refugee economic - recession external - rep by pop foreign - stalemate fascism - separation federal - sufferage globalization - suffragette holocaust - patriarchy imperialism - sedentary union - matriarchy reciprocity - seminary Evaluation Evaluation Attachments ? AssessmentGrid_ABC's.doc Copyright / Privacy Historica The Canadian The Canadian The Canadian Site created by 7th...

4. NLB eMuseum: Lesson Plan: Shadow Ball 1930-1940
..., Daffy Dean, Pepper Martin, Leo the Lip, Flash, Ducky, etc. Plain Prejudice: Discuss: Were Negro Leagues players as good as Major Leagues players? Why or why not? How do you know? Q: What was the ?old gentlemen?s agreement?? How did this affect baseball and society?s attitudes? Define and Discuss: Fascism Bottom of the Fifth: Q: How did Babe Ruth?s performance and the All Star team game in Japan help international relations? Q: What were the nations squabbling over? Why? Goodbye Baseball: Q: Why did the Yankees let Babe Ruth go? Q: Why did Babe Ruth turn down managing the Yankee farm team? Q: Why did...

5. BCTF LA2021: The Holocaust: A Mini Conference
...under the section ìlibrary resourcesî on each handout. 3. Teacher photocopies one copy of the eleven handouts for groups. Class Procedure: Periods 1 and 2: 1. Divide the class into eleven groups. 2. Assign each group one of the following topics: + The Rise of Hitler + The History of Anti-Semitism + Fascism in Canada + Resistance to Nazi Policies + Pre-War Jewish Life + Neo-Nazism + The Nuremberg Trials + The Final Solution + The Rescuers + The Response of the Churches + Refugees and Immigration Policies Note: Twenty-minute videotapes of Holocaust survivors' testimonies are available from the Holocaust...

6. Intolerance: A Lesson Plan
...o partners or groups and provide them with primary source documents relevant to examples of intolerance in Canadian history. Some examples could include: Evaluation 1. Chinese Canadian experience (head tax receipt, Right to vote, 1907 Anti-Asiatic riots) 2. Jewish Canadian experience (SS St. Louis, Fascism and anti-Semitism in Canada, Mackenzie-King Diary entry, Correspondence of Cairine Wilson) 3. War Time Internment (Ukrainian, German, Italian, Japanese) 4. Aboriginal Experience (Right to vote, Indian Act, Residential Schools, Treaty rights, Reserves, Cut-off Lands) 5. Women (Right to Vote, Persons...

7. Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation Project
...e words to define. Groups will then share their findings. WORDS: Using a dictionary (hard copy or online) define the following words or terms in the context of the story: Occident, Orient, adroit, mandarin, matriculation, articles, forebears, Federation, discriminatory, agitate, alleviation, canny, fascism, ethnology. PEOPLE: Use the links below to find out who the following people were and what they did: R.G. Menzies, John Williams, Confucius, Quong Tart, Cheok Hong Cheong, Dr. Sun Yat Sen. - Richard Sliwa's fan website of John Williams - 'R.G. Menzies' article part of 'Famous Australians' on the ABC...

8. The Great Depression and the Arts
...o undermine the system of checks and balances. Even the Keynesian experiment of deficit financing, which fueled the successful war economy, resulted in reliance on government spending as policy, rather than careful application of deficit spending as an emergency action. Nevertheless, at a time when fascism seemed to some like the most expedient solution to economic crisis, the New Deal proved that capitalism and democracy could adapt and survive. Home Teachers' Guide Lesson Plans Project Information Credits The Great Depression and the Arts N E W D E A L N E T W O R K

9. The Reichstag Fire - Judith Clark-Zaino
...ding how the legal election of 1932 devolves into the rigged election of 1933 that allows the Nazi party to gain control over the Reichstag. The focus of this lesson is to direct students toward understanding how a legally constructed republic with duly elected representatives can disintegrate into fascism. The results of the Reichstag fire and how they influenced the lives of individual Germans, members of the Communist party and Hitler's elevation to dictator through the Enabling Acts need to be examined. Students need to piece together how the faulty Weimar Constitution allowed all of this to occur...

10. Dr. Seuss and the Love of Reading
...hers.org/index.php?&screen=ShowRubric&rubric_id=885414& Significant Historical/Social Links 1930 (Escapism ) http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1930.htm http://www.foshay.k12.ca.us/Curriculum/TechAcad/Projects/ The%20Grapes%20of%20Wrath/lifestyles1930s/life%20style's.html 1940 (Fascism) http://www.rockhill.k12.sc.us/departments/research/1940.htm http://www.lbduk.org/fascism.htm http://www.wooster.edu/history/gshaya/links/europe20th/italyfascist.html 1950 (Pop Culture Explosion) http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/americon/courses/202pictures.html http://www.geocities.com/~johnnielacy/ 196...