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- AP Euro Week 15 – Week 16
2nd and 3rd Weeks of April
Monday
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Welcome Back
Return Unit 7 Tests
Introduce new unit: World War II and Communism
Reading and Analysis: In the Garden of Beasts
Analysis: Fascism as a product of “victimization”
HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 891-898
1. What were some of the components of
Lenin’s “New Economic Policy” (NEP)?
2. What was the goal of Stalin’s “Five Year
Plan”?
3. What were some of the flaws of Stalin,
especially when compared to Trotsky and/or
Lenin?...But then, how did he become
dominant by 1927?
4. What is meant by the term “collectivization of
agriculture”?
5. What was the Gosplan?
6. ANALYSIS: Did Stalin’s “Five Year Plan” work?
Provide evidence.
7. Describe daily life under Stalinism.
8. What was the Great Purge? What were
gulags?
Tuesday
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NO CLASS
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What were some of the fundamental
principles of “national socialism”? Be sure to
add the “racial component” to this answer…
What “ingredients” in Germany led to Hitler’s
rise to power? (HINT: Be sure to discuss the
Lebensraum, depression, and “Left” division…)
Under the Nazi State, describe what
happened to:
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…opposing parties
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…traitors inside of his own party
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…professionals and educators
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…Jews (Nuremburg Laws)
Under the Nazi State, describe:
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…unemployment numbers
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…Volksgemeinschaft
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…Aryanization
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…lives of Nazi women
Thursday
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NO CLASS
Friday
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Out of the Ashes: Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany
Analysis: Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and an Analysis of
Leadership Styles
“Lightning Fast”: We Were Not Supposed to Think
“The Night of the Long Knives”: The War Drum Beats
Again
HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 907-912
1. What was the initial policy of appeasement?
2. To where did Hitler march first?
3. What is meant by the term Anschluss?
4. With which country did Germany sign a “nonaggression pact”?
5. Into which countries did the blitzkrieg storm?
6. What was Hitler’s New Order?
7. Describe Nazi occupation in France and
Poland / East Europe.
Wednesday – LATE START PLC
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From Lenin to Stalin: The Great Leap Forward
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Analysis: Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and an Analysis of
Leadership Styles
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HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 898-907
1. Describe Italy in the 1920s.
2. What promises did Mussolini make to the
Italians?
3. Define the Black Shirts through the lens of
fascism.
4. Define Mussolini’s “Return To Order” via the
Lateran Agreement and expansion in Africa.
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Monday
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NO CLASS
Tuesday
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World War II: “The Lights Have Gone Out All Over
Europe”: From the Blitz to the Front
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Video: “Hitler’s Perfect Children”
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The “Other” War: The Rape of Europa
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HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 912-914;
1. What countries comprised the Grand
Alliance? What was its goal?
2. Where were the “hinges of fate” military
battles / victories?
3. Why couldn’t the Nazis take the Soviet Union?
4. What happened to Mussolini?
5. The war ended when which armies closed in
on which location?
Wednesday
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NO CLASS
Thursday
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War’s End: The Legacy of Judgment
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Movie: Der Untergang (Downfall)
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Judgment: The Nuremburg Trials
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Movie: Conspiracy
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Judgment: The Holocaust: What We Did…and
Didn’t…Know
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HOMEWORK: S&D: pp. 924-933
1. Provide numbers for the “human costs” of
World War II. (Be sure to include DPs…)
2. Who were the “Big Three” that settled the
postwar world? What were some of the things
that were decided? (Yalta Conference
specifically…)
3. What was the Truman Doctrine?
4. What was the Marshall Plan?
5. Describe the Berlin Airlift crisis.
6. What was NATO? the Warsaw Pact?
7. What is meant by the term “Big Science”?
Friday
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NO CLASS
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“Pardon My Reach”: Settling the Postwar World and the
Showdown With Communism
Spotlight On: The Berlin Crisis
Reading and Analysis: Communism’s Appeal
Spotlight On: “Behind The Curtain” with the East
German Stasi
HOMEWORK: S&D: pp.