Wednesday & Thursday, November 30 & December 1

Good day, history students!

Please click here for your Do Now.

For those of you without an iPad, please take out a piece of paper and wait for my instruction.

Today we will be revisiting Abyssinia and how it led to World War Two. Please click here to complete the in-class activity.

From the conflict in Abyssinia, we will see the steps Hitler took and what the British and French did (or didn't do) about it. We will complete an additional timeline tracking the events of the 1930s until 1940, noting the conflicts in the League of Nations and Hitler's movements. This will give us a good idea of the mounting tension in Europe in the 1930s.

Click here for timeline template.

Your homework: Looking back at the 1930s, choose one event (other than Hitler coming into power in Germany) that could have prevented World War Two. Explain how things would have been different. This is due Friday (P1M & P2M) or Monday (P2G & P4G).

Reflect on what we learned today:

Why was the League of Nations such an epic failure?

How did the League of Nations contribute to the start of World War Two?

Monday, November 28

Welcome back, history students!

Because of the field trip to ASU tomorrow, we will be taking a brief hiatus. We will look at some videos that showcase some of the issues and trends we were studying in the 1920s and 1930s.

Tuesday & Wednesday, November 22 & 23

Hello, history students!

Today we will be finishing up our time spent with the League of Nations. The guiding question we will be investigating today is "Why did the League of Nations fail in the the 1930s?"

We will search out the answer to this question through three case studies, namely Manchuria, Disarmament, and Abyssinia.

For your DO NOW, please take out your KWL chart from a couple weeks ago. Please fill out the L column with what you have learned about Germany between 1919-1939. Take five minutes to complete this chart.

Through Guided Notes and a pretty rocking Keynote presentation, we will explore how the economic depression gave rise to the crises in Manchuria and Abyssinia, as well as the failure that was the Disarmament Conference.

Please click here for access to the Guided Notes and Keynote Presentation.

Your homework:

Complete the Guided Notes packet, including the final page  AND

Write a descriptive essay about going back in time. Change either the Manchurian or Abyssinian crises. Describe what the time period was like and how you changed everything. How would this impact the future?

Decline of the League of Nations in the 1930s

Economic Depression impacting all countries

Hitler

Japan and Manchuria

Mussolini and Abyssinia

Mussolini

Haile Selassie, emperor of Abyssinia

Friday & Monday, November 18 & 21

Guten Tag, Studenten!

For you Do Now, please analyze this British cartoon from 1930 for audience, purpose, and message. Click here to submit.

Today we will be analyzing Nazi treatment of youths and women, as well as evaluating whether or not Germans gained from Nazi rule. You will need your textbooks as well as handouts.

The handouts are attached here.

The presentation about Nazi ideology from last class is attached here.

After we look through our textbook, we will have a debate whether Nazi rule helped the Germans.

Your HW assignment: create a poster to represent some aspect of German we have studied between 1919-1939. Some options to choose from:

• a poster for Hitler Youth
• a poster against Hitler Youth
• a poster protesting the occupation of the Ruhr

Poster assignment and can be found here.

Wednesday & Thursday, November 16 & 17

Hello, history students!

Today is a new day.

For your Do Now, write your answer to this question:

• What was the most crucial event or issue that led to Hitler taking over as Chancellor and eventually Fuhrer?
• Please CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT ANSWER.

We will be looking into how Hitler maintain power and kept his opponents at bay, as well as analyze Nazi ideology.

Please click here to access today's handouts.

Nuremberg rallies

Nazi Propaganda

Today it is especially important that we reflect on the situation of Nazi rule in Germany:

What groups of people were treated unfairly? Why? Is this justifiable? Why did people go along with it? What groups were treated favorably? Why? Is this justifiable? Why did people go along with it?

Monday & Tuesday, November 14 & 15

Hello, history students!

Today we will be investigating how Hitler was able to gain and consolidate power in the 1930s. In order to do this, we need to continue to build on our knowledge of the Weimar Republic, its strengths and weaknesses, as well as our understanding of the Great Depression in the United States and how that impacted Germany.

For your Do Now, please Fling the Teacher! Click here to get started. Find Germany Lessons on the lefthand side (click it), then find 1920s Revision Game. Click it and have fun! You need to answer 15 questions correctly in order to fling the teacher. Once you have won, please get started on the next part of your Do Now.


Using your timeline we made last week, please write a paragraph explaining how the Weimar Republic helped pave the way for a ruler like Adolf Hitler. Please use some of our vocabulary, like communism, Reichstag, The Ruhr, hyperinflation, etc.

Click here for the worksheets we will be using in class and for homework.

Hitler after appointment as Chancellor

Next we'll work together as a group to chart how the U.S. Stock Market Crash could cause miners in Silesia (eastern Germany) to lose their jobs and become homeless. Through this investigation we will be able to see how the Depression affected Germany and created a path for Hitler and the Nazis to rise to power.

The Nazi Party identified specific issues with the Weimar government. They also offered solutions to those problems. On pages 152-157, we will look at the problems with the Weimar government and how the Nazis proposed to solve them. Additionally we will investigate the idea of negative cohesion; some people believed the Nazis gained support due to this phenomenon. People collectively disliked certain things about German society -- and so did the Nazis.

SS Troopers parading in celebration of Hitler's appointment as Chancellor

Finally, we will create a new timeline, focusing on the early 1930s and Hitler's rise to becoming the Fuhrer. We need to look at specific events that occurred to bring him to power, including his appointment as Chancellor, the Reichstag Fire, the Enabling Act, the Night of the Long Knives, the death of President Hindenburg, and Hitler becoming the Fuhrer.

Reichstag Fire, 1933

Members of the regular German army swear the oath of allegiance to the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler.

Your homework is to finish your timeline. Make it neat and presentable to add to the wall as we continue to build our timelines into the future. Also complete any part of the packet that you did not finish in class. This is due Wednesday (P1M & P2M)/Thursday (P2G & P4G).

For your ticket out, please answer this question: "In your opinion, what was the most crucial (important) issue or event that led to Hitler taking over as Chancellor and eventually Fuhrer in 1933/1934?"

Wednesday & Thursday, November 9 & 10

Good day, history students!

As you come in, please get BOTH textbooks!

Today we are going to find out what Hitler was up to during these exciting years of the Weimar Republic!

Monday & Tuesday we talked about the differences between Ebert's and Stresemann's administrations during the Weimar Republic. Each leader faced opposition, including Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers' Party.

As we will be studying how Hitler took the Chancellorship in 1933, we need to understand where Hitler came from in the 1920s. How did the Nazi Party gain power by the 1930s? Were they always powerful? Was Hitler always popular?


For your Do Now, please create another timeline. This timeline needs to span 1920-1930. Please label every year between 1920 and 1930. Leave plenty of space so you can fill in events as we talk about them today.

Next, with a partner, please discuss the question, "Who ran the Weimar Republic better, Freidrich Ebert or Gustav Stresemann?" Be sure to explain your answer. We will then discuss as a class.

As usual, we have more vocabulary to discuss today. Learning vocabulary like this helps us understand the important events and agreements that shaped history

Please click here to access the vocabulary from today and the rest of the unit.

We will be looking at a number of different pages in our textbooks today. In the big textbook, we will look at pages 148-151, 242-245, as well as pages 38 and 39 in the skinny textbook.

    

Through these pages we will investigate the events that carried Germany to follow Hitler in the 1930s. We will plot these events and information about them on our timelines. These timelines will help us understand how events transpired and in what order. This lets us see how things built on each other and peoples ideas and feelings changed over time.

P1M, P2G & P4G HOMEWORK: (1) Imagine you were in Munich as Hitler tried to take over the government. Write three different tweets describing what was happening. (2) Explain why the US stock market crash had such a large effect on the rest of the world.


P2M: (1) Imagine you were in Munich as Hitler tried to take over the government. Write three different tweets describing what was happening. (2) Explain why the US stock market crash had such a large effect on the rest of the world. (3) Knowing what you know now, would you have encouraged Dawes or Young to loan money to Germany? Why or why not?

Monday & Tuesday, November 7 & 8

Hello, History students!

This week we will be moving full steam ahead through the 1920s and into the 1930s. Before we can move on, we need to understand the events that happened in the early 1920s in Germany that paved the way for a powerful leader like Hitler.

Your Do Now: a vocabulary quiz! Please clear off your desks. We will have 5 minutes to complete this quiz.


Today we will looking at and understanding the threats to the Weimar Republic from both the left and right wings and other crises, like the Treaty of Versailles and an economic disaster.

 

Opponents to the Weimar Republic

Left Wing: Communists and Socialists, including the Spartacists.

Image from padresteve.wordpress.com

Right Wing: Freikorps

Image from dan cutlermedicalart.com

Click here for access to the vocabulary words for today and the past words from this unit.

Treaty of Versailles and the Occupation of the Ruhr

Image from internationalschooltoulouse.net

Image from internationalschooltoulouse.net

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

This is a British cartoon from 1921. Take a look at how the German is portrayed. What are the  Lloyd George and Briand saying to the German? What is this cartoon saying about how the Allies' attitudes toward Germany's economic problems?

Workers collected their wages in laundry baskets during times of hyperinflation. Image from guardian.co.uk

Weimar Republic under Stresemann

Achievements and  Problems

P1M, P2G, P4G: For your homework, you need to complete the packet comparing the Weimar Republic under the rules of Ebert and Stresemann.

P2M: For your homework, you need to write two letters. 

First, write a letter as Freidrich Ebert to Gustav Stresemann. Explain what the problems in Germany are and how Stresemann should try to fix them.

Second, write a response from Stresemann to Ebert. Explain what problems you have fixed and how you did it. Feel free to admonish Ebert for his handling of the Weimar Republic before you got into power.

Click here for your exit ticket.

Thursday & Friday, November 3 & 4

Hello, History students!

Today we will continue to delve into the depths of our Germany Depth study (Ha! Get it, depths of the depth study??)

For your Do Now, we will be reviewing our vocabulary from Tues/Wed. Please click here.

If you do not have an iPad, on a separate sheet of paper, please define republic, Reichstag, constitution, and democracy. Use each word in a sentence, too.

To understand what the Weimar Republic is, we need to know how it came to become the new government in Germany after World War One. We will look at pages 138 and 139 in our textbooks to show us diagrams and give us background information on this.

What happened to Kaiser Wilhelm II?

Who actually signed the Armistice with the Allies on November, 11, 1918?

Why did people in Germany believe that the new government, including Ebert, had "stabbed Germany in the back and caused the defeat in the war"?

Do you agree with them? Why or why not?

Who became the new President of the Weimar Republic?

We will spend time comparing and contrasting the constitution of Germany before and after World War One. The most important factors for us to understand are the differences in how representatives were chosen. Page 139 has a particularly good diagram of the new Weimar government. We will compare this with a diagram of the old government on http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar2.htm.

What are similarities between the governments?

What differences do you notice?

What might be most difficult for people to get used to as a new Republic?

Record these similarities and differences in your Venn diagram.

Before we start looking at the problems facing the Weimar Republic, we need to learn a few more words to help us understand the ideologies of all the different enemies of the Republic. Communist, Socialist, Left-wing, and Right-wing are words we hear so frequently. But what do they really mean? What did they mean to the Weimar Republic? Let's find out!

On pages 140 and 141, we will read about the threats facing the Weimar Republic, including issues from Left-wing and Right-wing opponents. You have a graphic organizer with your Venn diagram. In each column, as we read, write down the political opponents of the Weimar Republic and how they each opposed them and how they were handled by the Republic. This will help us understand how the government treated certain political opponents and predict the consequences of that treatment.

Your homework is to write a letter from the perspective of Friedrich Ebert to a friend living in France. How might he describe the political opposition he is facing from both the Left and the Right? Include how he might handle the issues, too.

This is due Monday (P1M & P2M) or Tuesday (P2G & P4G).

Click here for your exit ticket!

Tuesday & Wednesday, November 1 & 2

Happy November, History students!

We will be constructing timelines today, as well as checking our rough drafts, learning new vocabulary, and introducing the Weimar Republic.

For more information about the Weimar Republic, please see this website: http://www.johndclare.net/Weimar2.htm.

We will be using it to investigate the differences between the different German governments before and after World War One.