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Suggested Duration: about 8 days

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Big Idea: Advancements in Students should know RTM Core Social Studies Industrial Revolution Text Chapters 7, Create a chart of produced the that: Skills: • Originated in because 9, and 12. the inventors and of its natural resources and the Industrial Revolution, while • The Industrial • Map skills scientists of the IR, and improvement of advancements in science and Revolution began in • what their Interpretation of the engine Rules of a altered the lives of contribution was England and spread to charts and graphs • Spread to Europe and the U.S. in and people living in the new the rest of Western • Analysis and • Role of , , and other accounts and how it changed industrial cities. Though Europe and the interpretation of industries on factory life people’s lives. fueled the United States. political cartoons • Relationship to British Industrial Revolution and led • With the Industrial • Analysis and Movement Kikuyu tribe fable Create a political European nations to conquer Revolution came an interpretation • Rise of the and on imperialism cartoon on African and Asian lands in increased demand for based on synthesis demise of cottage industries imperialism from order to acquire resources, raw materials from of facts • Rising economic powers that either the wanted to control raw new economic systems like the Americas, Asia, • Notetaking and perspective of an were being and Africa. materials and markets African/Asian organizational skills throughout the world considered. native or an • Advancements in • Reading technology produced comprehension Technological advances imperialist. the Industrial • Research skills • jenny: James Standards: Revolution, while • Written and oral Hargreaves Labor advancements in expression of facts • : union/management 8.1.12; 8.4.12 science and medicine and concepts • Process for making steel: simulation in which altered the lives of students break up into 2 sides and people living in the Students will be able to: new industrial cities. Science and medical advancements negotiate a new • Cite scientific, • Development of smallpox • contract. Essential Questions: Agricultural technological, and vaccination: Edward Jenner were industrial • Discovery of Bacteria: Louis Create chart based on the family developments and Pasteur 1. Why did the Industrial unit. The Industrial explain how they comparing Revolution originate in Revolution had a brought about Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on capitalism, England? significant impact on and industrialized countries socialism, , 2. Why did the spread of the structure and social and • increase and . industrialism to Europe function of the family. environmental • Increased standards of living for many but not all and the United States • The Industrial changes accelerate Revolution placed • Improved transportation and imperialism? new demands on the • Explain the • Urbanization 3. How did the Industrial labor of men, women, emergence of • Environmental Revolution produce and children. capitalism as a • Increased education changes in culture and Workers organized dominant economic • Dissatisfaction of working class with working conditions society? labor unions to fight power, and the • Growth of the for improved working subsequent 4. How did the Industrial conditions and Revolution impact the development of The nature of work in the factory lives of women, workers’ rights. socialism and system children, and the • Capitalism and communism • Family‐based cottage family? market • Describe the industries displaced by the fueled the Industrial factory system 5. Why did workers evolution of the Revolution. • Harsh working conditions with organize into labor nature of work and increased the men competing with women unions? the labor force, for including its effects and children for wages 6. What was the role of some. on families, the status • labor that kept costs of capitalism and market low and profits • Some dislocations of women and competition in the high associated with children, and the Industrial Revolution? • Owners of mines and capitalism produced a labor union 7. What were some who exercised considerable range of economic movement control over the lives of their theories opposed to and political ideas, • Explain the rise of laborers capitalism? including socialism Industrial economies 8. Why did European and communism. and their links to Social effects of the Industrial countries participate in • Industrial nations in imperialism and Revolution imperialism and a race Europe needed • Women and children entering the workplace as cheap labor for colonies? natural resources and • Assess the impact of • Introduction of reforms to end 9. What were some markets to expand European economic child labor responses of colonized their economies. and power on • Expansion of education peoples to European • These nations Asia and Africa, with • Women’s increased demands imperialism? competed to control emphasis on the for suffrage Africa and Asia in competition for order to secure their resources and the The rise of labor unions own economic and responses of • Encouraged worker‐organized political success. colonized peoples strikes to demand increased • Imperialism spread wages and improved working conditions the economic, • Lobbied for laws to improve political, and social the lives of workers, including philosophies of women and children Europe throughout • Wanted workers’ rights and the world. collective bargaining between • Resistance to labor and management imperialism took many forms, including Capitalism armed conflict and • ’s intellectual • Role of market competition movements. and entrepreneurial abilities • Impact on standard of living and growth of the middle class • Dissatisfaction with poor working conditions and the unequal in society

Socialism and Communism • ’s The Communist Manifesto (written with ) and Das Kapital • Response to the injustices of capitalism • Importance to communists of redistribution of wealth

Forms of imperialism • Colonies • Protectorates • Spheres of Influence

Imperialism in Africa and Asia • European domination • European conflicts carried to the colonies • Christian missionary efforts • Spheres of influence in • East ’s domination of Indian states • Suez • America’s opening of Japan to trade

Responses of colonized peoples • Armed conflicts (e.g. Boxer and Sepoy Rebellion) • Rise of nationalism (e.g. first Indian nationalist party founded in mid‐)

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Big Idea: WWI was caused Students should know RTM Core Social Studies Causes of WWI Text Chapter 14 Analyze political by competition among that: Skills: • Alliances that divided Europe cartoons into competing camps industrial nations in Europe • WWI (1914‐1918) was • Map skills Primary and regarding who • Nationalistic feelings and a failure of diplomacy. • Interpretation of secondary was at fault for caused by • Diplomatic failures The war transformed charts and graphs sources on the causing WWI competition among • Imperialism European life, wrecked assassination of industrial nations in • Analysis and • Competition over colonies European economies, and Europe and a failure interpretation of • Militarism Francis Ferdinand Analyze primary planted the seeds for a of diplomacy. The political cartoons and secondary second world war. war transformed • Analysis and Major events All Quiet on the sources on the European and interpretation • Assassination of Austria’s Western Front assassination of American life, based on synthesis Archduke Francis Ferdinand Francis Ferdinand Standards: wrecked European of facts • United States enters the war Propaganda to understand economies, and • Notetaking and • Russia leaves the war posters the strengths and

planted the seeds for organizational skills weaknesses of 8.1.12; 8.4.12 Major leaders a second world war. • Reading each • Kaiser Wilhelm II Essential Questions: • After WWI, comprehension • Woodrow Wilson Read and quiz on international • Research skills • David Lloyd George • All Quiet on the 10. What were the factors organizations and Written and oral • Georges Clemenceau agreements were expression of facts Western Front to that produced WWI? develop an established with the and concepts Outcomes and global effects 11. What were the major purpose of avoiding • Colonies’ participation in the understanding of events of the war? trench warfare future conflicts. Students will be able to: war which increased demands 12. Who were the major • Explain economic for independence and the troops’ leaders? • End of the Russian Imperial, changing views causes, political 13. What were the Ottoman, German, and Austro‐ on war that causes, and major Hungarian outcomes and global events of the war occurred. • Enormous cost of the war in effects of WWI? • Identify major leaders lives, , and social Analyze and 14. What were the terms of the war disruption create of the Treaty of • Explain the outcomes propaganda Versailles? and global effects of posters to 15. What was the League the war and the Treaty of Versailles • Forced Germany to accept motivate others of Nations and why did Treaty of Versailles responsibility for war and loss to join the war it fail? • Describe the League of territory and to pay effort. 16. Why was the mandate of Nations and the reparations system created? mandate system • Limited the German military Create chart • League of Nations comparing and contrasting the League of Nations ideas listed in the • International organization 14 Points to the • Established to prevent future actual deal made wars in the Treaty of • United States not a member Versailles and • Failure of League because it how each did not have power to enforce addressed the its decisions causes of WWI.

The mandate system • During WWI, and agreed to divide large portions of the Ottoman in the Middle East between themselves. • After the war, the “mandate system gave Great Britain and France control over the lands that became Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine (British controlled) and Syria and Lebanon (French controlled) • The division of the through the mandate system planted the seeds for future conflicts in the Middle East

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Big Idea: Russians revolted Students should know RTM Core Social Studies Causes of the 1917 Text Chapter 14, Create a against their Tsar due to his that: Skills: • Defeat in war with Japan in section 5 propaganda 1905 autocratic rule, their military • Tsarist Russia entered • Map skills video that • Landless peasantry defeats in , and • Interpretation of Joseph Stalin: attempts to World War I as an • Incompetence of Tsar Nicholas poor economic conditions. Terror convert others to charts and graphs II The end result was the with sharp class • Analysis and • Military defeats and high History Channel communism and creation of the first divisions between the interpretation of casualties in World War I DVD the Soviet way of communist that and the political cartoons life under Stalin. ultimately became the . The • Analysis and Rise of Communism U.S.S.R. grievances of workers interpretation • Bolshevik Revolution and civil and peasants were based on synthesis war not resolved by the of facts • Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic Policy Standards: Tsar. • Notetaking and • Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor • Inadequate organizational skills 8.1.12; 8.4.12 administration in • Reading World War I led to comprehension Essential Questions: revolution and an • Research skills unsuccessful • Written and oral 17. Why did Russia erupt in provisional expression of facts revolution while government. and concepts fighting in World War • A second revolution I? by the Bolsheviks Students will be able to: • Cite the causes 18. How did communism created the and rise in Russia? communist state that ultimately became consequences of the U.S.S.R. the Russian Revolution

Access the SAS content at: Modern Europe (Level 3) www.pdesas.org Unit 4: The and World War II

Suggested Duration: about 12 days

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Big Idea: The unrest created Students should know RTM Core Social Studies Causes of worldwide depression Text Chapters 16 Document Based by the Treaty of Versailles that: Skills: • German reparations and 17 Questions on • Expansion of production and the effects of the Great A period of uneven • Map skills appeasement • capacities and dominance of Depression led to the rise of • Interpretation of Mein Kampf and its role in in the the United States in the global dictatorships in the Soviet causing WWII decade following charts and graphs excerpt Union, Italy, Germany, and World War I (the • Analysis and • High protective tariffs Japan whose aggression 1920s) was followed interpretation of • Excessive expansion of credit Schindler’s List or caused World War II and the by worldwide political cartoons • Crash of 1929 other appropriate Holocaust. depression in the • Analysis and video on the 1930s. interpretation Impact of worldwide depression Holocaust • High in • Depression weakened based on synthesis Standards: of facts industrial countries Primary and Western democracies, • • Notetaking and Bank failures and collapse of secondary source making it difficult for credit organizational skills documents on 8.1.12; 8.4.12 them to challenge the • Collapse of prices in world appeasement and threat of • Reading trade Essential Questions: totalitarianism. comprehension • Nazi Party’s growing the Holocaust

• The Depression in the • Research skills importance in Germany; Nazi 19. Why did the world 1930s provided • Written and oral Party’s blame of European Jews for experience depression opportunities for the expression of facts

in the 1930s? rise of dictators in the and concepts U.S.S.R. during the Interwar Period‐ 20. What political changes Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin Students will be able to: resulted from the Germany, Italy, and • Entrenchment of communism

worldwide depression? Japan. • Examine events • Stalin’s policies: Five‐year related to the rise, 21. Why did dictatorial • The Treaty of plans, collectivization of farms, aggression, and governments emerge Versailles worsened state industrialization, secret costs of in Germany, Italy, economic and dictatorial regimes in • Great Purge Japan, and the U.S.S.R. political conditions in the Soviet Union, after World War I? Europe and led to the Germany, Italy, and Germany during the Interwar Period‐ 22. How did these regimes rise of totalitarian Japan, and identify Adolf Hitler affect the world regimes in Italy and the major leaders. • and depression following World War I? Germany. • Democratic government • Cite causes and assess 23. What were the causes • Japan emerged as a weakened the impact of • Anti‐Semitism of WWII? world power after worldwide depression 24. What were the major WWI and conducted in the 1930s. • Extreme nationalism events of WWII? aggressive • Explain the economic • National Socialism (Nazism) • German occupation of nearby Who were the major imperialistic policies and political causes of 25. countries leaders of WWII? in Asia. A communist World War II as well dictatorship was as describe the major 26. Why did the Holocaust Italy during the Interwar Period‐Benito established in the events and identify occur? Mussolini Soviet Union by the major leaders of What are other • Rise of fascism 27. Vladimir Lenin and the war. examples of genocide • Ambition to restore the glory continued by Joseph • Analyze the causes, in the twentieth of Rome Stalin. events, and effects of • Invasion of Ethiopia century? • Many economic and the Holocaust. political causes led to Japan during the Interwar Period‐ World War II. Major Hirohito and Hideki Tojo • theaters of war Militarism • Industrialization of Japan, included Africa, leading to drive for raw Europe, Asia, and the materials Pacific Islands. • Invasion of Korea, Manchuria, Leadership was and the rest of China essential to the Allied victory. Economic and Political causes of WWII • There had been a • Aggression by the totalitarian climate of hatred powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan against Jews in • Nationalism Europe and Russia for • Failures of the Treaty of centuries. Versailles • Weakness of the League of Nations • Appeasement • Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism in Europe and the United States

Major events of the war (1939‐1945) • German invasion of Poland • Fall of France • Battle of Britain • German invasion of the Soviet Union • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor • D‐Day (Allied invasion of Europe) • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Major leaders of the war • Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. president • Harry Truman: U.S. president after death of Roosevelt • Dwight Eisenhower: Allied commander in Europe • Winston Churchill: British Prime Minister • Hirohito: Emperor of Japan • Hitler • Stalin • Mussolini • Tojo

Term to know • Genocide: The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group

Elements leading to the Holocaust • Totalitarianism combined with nationalism • History of anti‐Semitism • Defeat in World War I and blamed on German Jews • Hitler’s belief in the master race • Final solution: Extermination camps, gas chambers

Access the SAS content at: Modern Europe (Level 3) Unit 5: The www.pdesas.org

Suggested Duration: about 10 days

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Big Idea: The Cold War grew Students should know RTM Core Social Studies Outcomes of World War II Text Chapters 18‐ Google Docs out of a competition that: Skills: • Loss of empires by European 23 groups between the capitalist, • The outcomes of • Map skills powers presentation on • Establishment of two democratic United States and WWII included the • Interpretation of UN Declaration of selected topics superpowers: United States communist Soviet Union Human Rights on the Cold War war crimes trials, the charts and graphs and Soviet Union during World War II and division of Europe, • Analysis and • War crimes trials lasted for approximately 45 plans to rebuild interpretation of • Division of Europe, Iron Curtain Discovery Create a political years. The Cold War created Germany and Japan, political cartoons • Establishment of United Channel videos cartoon about a bipolar international and the establishment • Analysis and Nations on Korean War either the system where constant of international interpretation • The Universal Declaration of and Vietnam War Truman Doctrine threat of war existed. cooperative based on synthesis Human Rights or the Marshall organizations of facts • CNN Cold War Plan+ • The Universal • Notetaking and • Formation of North Atlantic video on the Treaty Organization (NATO) Standards: Declaration of Human organizational skills Berlin Wall Document and Warsaw Pact Rights was issued in analysis on • Reading Movies: 13 Days causes of the 8.1.12; 8.4.12 1948 to protect the comprehension Efforts for reconstruction of Germany “inherent dignity • Research skills • Democratic government and/or Charlie Korean War Wilson’s War Essential Questions: and…the equal and • Written and oral installed in West Germany and inalienable rights of expression of facts West Berlin all members of the • Germany and Berlin divided 28. What were the and concepts human family…” among the four Allied powers outcomes of WWII? • • Competition between Students will be able to: Emergence of West Germany 29. What were the war as economic power in postwar the USA and USSR laid • Explain the terms of crimes trials? the foundation for the Europe the peace from WWII, 30. How did the Allies Cold War the war crimes trials, Efforts for reconstruction of Japan promote • The Cold War the division of • US occupation of Japan under reconstruction of the influenced the Europe, plans to MacArthur’s administration defeated powers? policies of the USA rebuild Germany and • Democracy and economic 31. What were the and USSR toward Japan, and the development international other nations and creation of • Elimination of Japan’s military cooperative conflicts around the international offensive capabilities; guarantee of Japan’s security organizations created world cooperative after WWII? • The presence of by the United States 32. What events led to the nuclear weapons has organizations and the • Emergence of Japan as Cold War? influenced patterns of Universal Declaration dominant economy in Asia

33. What was the impact conflict and of Human Rights cooperation since • Explain key events of International Cooperative Organizations of nuclear weapons? • United Nations 1945 the Cold War, 34. What were the causes • NATO • Communism failed as including the and consequences of • Warsaw Pact an economic system competition between the collapse of the in the Soviet Union the American and Soviet Union? The Universal Declaration of Human and elsewhere. Soviet economic and Rights 35. How did the Cold War • Japanese occupation political systems and • Established and adopted by influence conflicts in of European colonies the causes of the members of the UN Eastern Asia after in Asia heightened collapse of • Provided a code of conduct for World War II? demands for communism in the the treatment of people under 36. What was the policy of independence after Soviet Union and the protection of their government containment? World War II Eastern Europe

37. What role did Mikhail • After WWII, the USA • Assess the impact of Beginning of the Cold War (1945‐1948) Gorbachev play in the pursued a policy of nuclear weaponry on • Yalta Conference and Soviet Cold War? containment against patterns of conflict control of Eastern Europe communism. The and cooperation since • Rivalry between the US and policy included the 1945 USSR development of • Describe conflicts and • Democracy and the free regional alliances enterprise system vs. against Soviet and movements in eastern dictatorship and communism Chinese aggression. Asia and how they • President Truman and The Cold War led to pertain to the Cold Containment policy • Eastern Europe: Soviet satellite armed conflict in War nations, Iron Curtain Korea and Vietnam • Describe the contribution of Characteristics of the Cold War (1948‐ Mikhail Gorbachev to 1989) the Cold War and • North Atlantic Treaty Soviet history Organization (NATO) vs. Warsaw Pact • Korean War • Vietnam War • Soviet‐Afghan War • Berlin Wall and significance of Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • Nuclear weapons and the theory of deterrence

Collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe • Soviet economic collapse • Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries • Tearing down of Berlin Wall • Breakup of the Soviet Union • Expansion of NATO

Mikhail Gorbachev • Glasnost and perestroika • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Last president of the Soviet Union