Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Democracy Survives

Name: Roy Palacios

Content Area:
World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern
World

Grade Level: 10th

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

10.7 Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I.
10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
Big Ideas:

Understand the role of democracy and how undermining freedoms can lead to destructive consequences.
Understand how the economy plays in whether nations go to war; the driving factors behind nationalism in each country.
Seeing how all the different military and political players have influenced policy.
Unit Goals and Objectives:

Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior
to the outbreak of World War II.
Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union,
noting especially their common and dissimilar traits
Compare the German; Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China,
and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939.
Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (e.g., Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor
Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower).

Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and
the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians.
Unit Summary:

Students will understand the cause and effects of World War II. They will understand the role that
government plays in domestic and foreign affairs. They will see how the United States became a super power
of the world not by imperialism but because of the outcome of a major human conflict. Students will know
who the major movers and shakers of the war were. Students should have an understanding the role the
United States plays in the world affairs and how that role was forged as a result of allied victory in WWII.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:

Formative:

Summative:

Survey about what students

already know about post-WWI preWWII Society.

Guided Notes lecture on the rise

of National socialism.
Webercize Students will research
the role of isolatonism in the
United States, appeasement in
Europe, Japanese drives for
empire, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact.
Quiz
Graphic Organizer Students
choose a military or political leader
and put together 5 events that
describe who that person is.

Project Group project discussing

either: spread of democracy, twofront war, or isolationism in the
United States.
Exam cumulative exam.

Lesson 1
Student Learning
Objective:

Analyze the rise,

aggression, and human
costs of totalitarian

Acceptable Evidence:

Students will listen

to a lecture and
take guided notes.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization

Lesson Activities:

Survey on what students know about post-WWI,

pre-WWII period.

 Interaction

regimes (Fascist and

Communist) in
Germany, Italy, and the
Soviet Union, noting
especially their
common and
dissimilar traits.
Lesson 2

Student Learning
Objective:

Students will
analyze the role of
appeasement in
Europe and
Isolationism in the
United States.
Students will
discuss the
holocaust and Nazi
persecution.
Drive for power in
Japan, Italy, and
Germany.

Acceptable Evidence:

Students will
research and
complete a
webercize
researching
appeasement and
empires in Europe.
Quiz

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:

Webercize_- Students will answer questions that I

have provided. The answers to these questions
can be found on the websites I have provided.
Quiz- weekly quizzes to see where the students
are at

Lesson 3

Student Learning
Objective:

Acceptable Evidence:

Students put
Describe the political, together a graphic
organizer (concept
diplomatic, and
map) of any
military leaders
military or political
during the war (e.g.,
leader of this time
Winston
and give 5 events

Project Group project discussing either: spread

of democracy, two-front war, or isolationism in
the United States.
Graphic Organizer describes military or political
figure.
Exam cumulative exam on the unit.

Churchill, Franklin
Delano Roosevelt,
Emperor Hirohito,
Adolf Hitler, Benito
Mussolini, Joseph
Stalin, Douglas
MacArthur, Dwight
Eisenhower).

that influenced the

war o.s

Unit Resources:

Crash Course on World War II: I'm giving students the opportunity to cheat, sort of. Take 13 minutes and get
an overview of what we're going to be discussing.
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact-1939: Overview of Soviet-German non-aggression pact. Hitler initially made a pact
with Stalin not to invade Russia in an effort to avoid a two-front war. Hitler will violate this pact and is a prime
example of the manipulation tactics he would employ.
Sparknotes on WWII: Spark notes is great for providing study guides, self-tests, and great information about
potential essay questions.
History of the Holocaust: Information about Hitler's racial order and documentation of Holocaust victim
survivors. We cannot discuss World War II without the Holocaust, as the war was a catalyst for Nazi racial
purity.
Raping of Nanking : Overview of Japan's 1931 invasion of Manchuria. Essentially, the Japanese version of
their Holocaust
History of Communism: An easy to understand timeline about the Bolsheviks.
Japanese Internment Camps: After Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans in California were sent to internment
camps until the end of the war.
Interactive Map and Timeline: Understand what was happening in different regions in the world during WWII.

Very insightful and entertaining as well.

Nazi Policy of Racial Purity: Outline of racial purity policy and leading up to the Nazi's final solution.
Overview of Japanese involvement in World War II: Gives a fairly detailed account of Japans involvement in
WWII and the events leading up to the dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Useful Websites:

Timeline of Nazi Party:

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/nazirise.htm
Sparknotes.com overview of World War II:
http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/ww2/section1.rhtml
Policy of Appeasement in Europe:
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/appeasement
Overview of World War II (Hint: Take a look at the biographies)
http://ehistory.osu.edu/wwii/index.cfm
Timeline of World War II:
http://www.nationalww2museum.org/history/final/interactive_timeline.html
More Timelines!
http://www.datesandevents.org/events-timelines/16-timeline-of-ww2.htm