gRADE: 10TH cONTENT sTANDARDS: 10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II. 1. 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 2. 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 3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors 4. 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). 5. 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. 6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan bIG IDEAS: -What are the similarities and differences between 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? -What did the roles of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States play prior to the outbreak of World War II? -What were the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, and where did they take place? -Who were 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)? -What was the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews? How did it transform into the Final Solution and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians? -What was the human costs of the war (focusing particularly on the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan)? uNIT ASSESSMENTS: -Students will make group posters about the new regimes in Germany, Italy, or Japan. -Students will do a project in which they have to write a letter to the president discouragement intervention in European affairs concerning Hitler's Germany. -Students will create an info-graphic highlighting the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, and key strategic decisions. -Students will take a fill-in-the-blank test asking them to identify the corresponding political, diplomatic, and military leaders were during the war. -Students will write essays reflecting on Nazi policies concerning racial purity and the effects they had. -Students will create individual newsletters explaining the human cost of the war to their respective readers.