Creating a Google Drive Document for History Coursework

Log into your Google account. Select Drive from the top menu.




Click CREATE and select Document from the drop-down menu.




Click inside the box at the top where it says Untitled Document.




Type in YOUR NAME HISTORY COURSEWORK




Write your heading at the top left of the paper and begin typing your coursework. Label your answers as seen below.

Did most Germans benefit from Nazi rule?

Debate

These sources should be used as evidence in support of your argument.

Source A

Why children are important

When an opponent declares, `I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, `Your child belongs to us already.. . . What are you ? You will pass on.   Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp.   In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.

Hitler, speaking in the 1920s.

Source B

Girls from the Jungmadel BdN cheer Hitler.   Girls were always given the front rows in Nazis parades and rallies because they became hysterical and added to the atmosphere of fervour and adulation.

Source C Children were conditioned (brainwashed) into Nazi beliefs from an early age.   Here, a story book for small children stereotypes a Jew as a degenerate pervert.   Anti-Semitism came easily and naturally to children who had been brought up looking at this kind of picture.

Source D

Indoctrination at School

When Klauss got back from school at five o’clock he bullied me into helping him with his homework ...   Here is a maths problem picked out at random: ‘A plane on take off carries 12 bombs, each weighing ten kilos.   The aircraft makes for Warsaw, the centre of international Jewry.   It bombs the town.   On take off with all bombs on board and a fuel tank containing 1500 kilos of fuel the aircraft weighed 8 tonnes.   When it returned from the crusade, there were still 230 kilos of fuel left.   What is the weight of the aircraft when empty?’

A German father describes a question his child had to answer at school.   It is clearly designed to inculcate the Nazi principles of militarism and anti-Semitism as the child works, ostensibly, on his Maths.

Source E Unfit to be parents Children have been deliberately taken away from parents who refused to say they believed in Nazism...   Refusing to let your child join the Hitler Youth is regarded as an adequate reason to take the children away from their parents. Written by a schoolteacher in 1938. Source F A girl's job... `Tell me, Fraulein Liselotte, if I may call you Liselotte, you seem so charming, and kind.   What happens here? I mean, in general.   Naturally, I'm not just talking about the genetic part of it, but . . .' `But you're dying to know how we all go to bed together according to Nazi rules?' she broke in, smiling again. I was rather embarrassed.   I must have blushed. 'That isn't quite what I meant.   I want to know the routine here.' She became more serious. `All I can tell you is that we live in dormitories of six or twelve beds.  The girls who are ... chosen, are moved to another section, which deals with the legal details of the partnership, and of course any births which result from it.   Because we must remember that that's what we're all here for,' she ended quietly, looking away. 'A strange thing for your country to ask you to do, don't you agree?' German girls, meanwhile, had to grow up and become the good mothers of strong, violent Aryan boys.   Suitable Aryan girls were taken away to special camps, where they were married to perfect Aryan boys in a bid to improve the genetic stock.   This amazing passage is from P Neumann, Other Men's Graves (1958). Source G (1) Strength Through Joy statement (2nd August, 1938) As of August 1 (1938), the great savings programme for the People's Car 'Strength-Through-Joy' will begin. I herewith proclaim the conditions under which every working person, can acquire an automobile. (1) Each German, without distinction of class, profession, or property can become the purchaser of a Volkswagen. (2) The minimum weekly payment, insurance included, will be 5 marks. Regular payment of this amount will guarantee, after a period which is yet to be determined, the acquisition of a Volkswagen. The precise period will be determined upon the beginning of production. (3) Application for the Volkswagen savings programme can be made at any office of the German Labour Front and of 'Strength Through Joy', where further details can also be obtained. Factories and shops can submit collective orders. A Volkswagen for every German - let that be our aim. That is what we want to achieve. Will all of you help in that; it shall be our way of saying 'thank you' to the Fuhrer.

Source H

We all felt the same, the same happiness and joy.   Things were looking up.    I believe no statesman has ever been as loved as Adolf Hitler was then.    It’s all come flooding back to me.   Those were happy times.

A German farmer, Luise Essig, remembering life in Nazi Germany.

Source I

The perfect Nazi family

Source J

A Nazi race-hatred poster:

'The Jew - the inciter of war,

the prolonger of war'.

Genocide under the Nazis Timeline

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/nazi_genocide_timeline/index_embed.shtml

Read about the Nazi leaders.

Rudolf Hess:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhess.htm

Heinrich Himmler:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhimmler.htm

Joseph Goebbels:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgoebbels.htm

Hermann Göring:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWgoring.htm

Ernst Rohm:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERroehm.htm

Occupation of the Ruhr Cartoon

Using your mnemonic, interpret this cartoon! Think Tacos Can Actually Increase Creativity!

This is a German cartoon from 1923. The woman represents the French army. The words at the bottom say, "Hands off the Ruhr."

After you interpret the cartoon, answer the following question.

Are you surprised by this cartoon? Use your knowledge to explain your answer. 

Cambridge History Exam Scavenger Hunt!

Today you'll be completing a scavenger hunt to find out more about your Cambridge History Exams!

Follow the directions in order to complete your foldable and learn more about your history exam!


There are some paper copies of the exams if you'd prefer to look through those, but I do not have enough for the entire class. Come see me with questions or if you would like to see the paper copies.

Happy hunting!

Paper 1 Tab:

First and foremost, you need to know when you're taking these exams!

You'll be taking your Paper 1 exam on Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

To find out about how long it will take, how many questions and sections, check the following link:
Click here to look at last year's Paper 1.

Section A: Core Content Tab:

Scroll through the questions to figure out 1-3.
Click here to look at last year's Paper 1.

Choose questions about content that you know! Don't pick questions about things you've never heard of!

The skills needed will be found in here: Click here to look at last year's Paper 1.

Section B: Depth Students Tab:

What Depth Study are we studying now? That will help you answer #1.

To answer 2-4, Click here to look at last year's Paper 1.

For 5, Click here to check out Tips for Paper 1.

Paper 2 Tab

You'll be taking your Paper 2 exam on Friday, May 24, 2013.

To find out how long Paper 2 will take, how many questions, sections, and what you'll have to interpret, Click here to look at last year's Paper 2.

For Paper 2, you will choose the 20th Century Option, which will be about the Peace Treaties of 1919.

Click here to check out Tips for Paper 2.

Coursework Tab

Click here to look at the Coursework assignment.

You will complete your Coursework assignment in Mrs. Anzur's class during the months of January and February. You will have 6 weeks to complete your Coursework assignment. You are allowed to work on it outside of class and at home. Coursework must be typed! It will be counted for a grade in Mrs. Anzur's class as well as toward your Cambridge exam score.

Other Tips Tab

Click here for more tips about the Cambridge exam!

Boston walking tour brought to you by....

...Insight Guides Boston Step by Step! I owe a huge thank you to the authors of the Boston walking tour book I used. It had such helpful tours, tips, and maps that got me from historical site to historical site in Boston and the surrounding area. Much of my blog posting must be attributed to their insight (ha! get it, insight?) and information. Thank you, Insight Guides!

Click here for more information about the book I used.

A few more points of interest in Boston:

Public Garden: the oldest botanical garden in the United States, with expertly manicured flower beds and lots of squirrels scampering from place to place. As I walked through the garden, I saw a woman with her dogs, a leash in each hand, her arms held out, as each dog tracked and stared down a separate squirrel. I was afraid (and I think she was, too) that she would be drawn and quartered by her two terriers! In the Public Garden, you can take a swan boat ride (popular since 1877) around the lagoon. There is also a rather magnificent statue of George Washington on horseback. According to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington was the finest horsemen of the age (thanks, again, Insight Guides!).

Hatch Schell, Charles River, Esplanade: On our Friday night in Boston, my husband and I found our way to a pedestrian bridge to take us across the busy Storrow Drive to get to the Charles River. As we were crossing, we saw that there was a movie playing in the Hatch Shell. On Fridays in the summer (from what I surmise), they play free movies in the Hatch Shell for the people of Boston. People were scattered about the green on their blankets watching Happy Feet 2. What a fun Friday! The Hatch Shell is also where the Boston Pops play their concerts, most notably on the Fourth of July with accompanying fireworks show (which you can watch on TV from Phoenix, too!). We walked to a dock on the river where a number of other couples and families were enjoying a picnic dinner as the sun set across the river. It was quite lovely. On our way back to our hotel, we wandered through the Esplanade, a treed, grassy riverside park equipped with a lagoon and gondolas!

Photo taken from the top of the Green Monster

Back Bay Fens and Fenway Park: Looking for a spot for dinner, my husband and I wandered down Beacon Street until we stumbled onto Boston University and busy Commonwealth Avenue. While dining on some tasty pizza, I noticed the unmistakable lights of a baseball stadium -- Fenway Park! While we didn't take a tour that evening (there wasn't even a game that night, but the lights were on...), we returned on our last day in Boston to take an inside peek at America's smallest and oldest major league stadium (it is celebrating its 100th birthday this year, just like the state of Arizona!). From Fenway we walked along the Back Bay Fens, a "reedy marshland along the Muddy River," as my guide book states. The Fens are a part of the Emerald Necklace, nine green spaces in Boston designed by the same man who designed New York City's Central Park.

While I wasn't able to see every part of Boston, I did see a lot. I definitely know which areas I'll hit up next time I'm in town!