LG 9 (Unit 4)

Transformation and Tension

The Holocaust + Genocide

READINGS:
*=Requir Title
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Pages

Falk: Student
Workbook

57-59, 109-112, 113-116

Howarth: The World

Since 1900 First
Edition

120-124; 197-201; 206-214

Howarth: The World 113-116; 182-186; 190-197

Since 1900 Second Ed
*

Demarco: The World

This Century

154-155

Mitchner and Tuffs:

Global Forces

51-56; 124-125;

Catchpole: Map
N/A
History of the Modern
World

Vocabulary
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Anti-Semitism
Holocaust
Final Solution
Wannsee Conference
Einsatzgruppen
Nuremburg Trials

15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.

7. Atlantic Charter
8. Tehran Conference
9. Yalta Conference
10.
Potsdam Conference
11.
Casablanca Conference
12.
The Big Three
13.
Inter-Allied Tribunal
14.
Iron Curtain

Aryan Myth
Enabling Act
Nuremburg Laws
Herman Goering
Josef Goebbels
Heinrich Himmler
Schutzstaffel
Kristallnacht
Gestapo

Written Response Questions

1. Anti-Semitism was a basic principle of Hitlers Nazism.
A) Explain how this principle was applied in Germany between 1933 and
1939.
B) Explain how this principle was applied in Germany and German-occupied
lands between 1939 and 1945.
2. Much of Nazi ideology was based on the concept of the Master Race.
A) What did Hitler mean by the Master Race?
B) Explain how, Hitlers concept of the Master Race was put into practice
by the Nazis from 1933 to 1945.
3. Explain how the defeat of Germany in the Second World War led to the potential
for conflict in post-war Europe.

Focus Questions

Adolf Hitler
Speech of April 12, 1921
"Then someone has said: 'Since the Revolution the people has gained "Rights." The people governs.'
Strange! The people has now been ruling three years and no one has in practice once asked its opinion.
Treaties were signed which will hold us down for centuries: and who has signed the treaties? The people?
No! Governments which one fine day presented themselves as Governments. And at their election the people
had nothing to do save to consider the question: there they are already, whether I elect them or not. If we
elect them, then they are there through our election. But since we are a self-governing people, we must elect
the folk in order that they may be elected to govern us
And if we ask who was responsible for our misfortune, then we must inquire who profited by our collapse. And
the answer to that question is the Banks and Stock Exchanges are more flourishing than ever before.
Christian capitalism is already as good as destroyed, the international Jewish Stock Exchange capital gains
in proportion as the other loses ground. It is only the international Stock Exchange and loan-capital, the socalled "supra-state capital," which has profited from the collapse of our economic life, the capital which
receives its character from the single supra-state nation which is itself national to the core, which fancies itself
to be above all other nations, which places itself above other nations and which already rules over them.
The international Stock Exchange capital would be unthinkable, it would never have come, without its
founders the supra-national, because intensely national, Jews...
The Jew has not grown poorer: he gradually gets bloated, and, if you don't believe me, I would ask you to go
to one of our health-resorts; there you will find two sorts of visitors: the German who goes there, perhaps for

the first time for a long while, to breathe a little fresh air and to recover his health, and the Jew who goes
there to lose his fat. And if you go out to our mountains, whom do you find there in fine brand-new yellow
boots with splendid rucksacks in which there is generally nothing that would really be of any use? And why
are they there? They go up to the hotel, usually no further than the train can take them: where the train stops,
they stop too. And then they sit about somewhere within a mile from the hotel, like blow-flies round a corpse

While now in Soviet Russia the millions are ruined and are dying, Chicherin - and with him a staff of over 200
Soviet Jews - travels by express train through Europe, visits the cabarets, watches naked dancers perform
for his pleasure, lives in the finest hotels, and does himself better than the millions whom once you thought
you must fight as 'bourgeois.' The 400 Soviet Commissars of Jewish nationality - they do not suffer; the
thousands upon thousands of sub-Commissars - they do not suffer. No! all the treasures which the
'proletarian' in his madness took from the 'bourgeoisie' in order to fight so-called capitalism - they have all
gone into their hands. Once the worker appropriated the purse of the landed proprietor who gave him work,
he took the rings, the diamonds and rejoiced that he had now got the treasures which before only the
'bourgeoisie' possessed. But in his hands they are dead things - they are veritable death-gold. They are no
profit to him. He is banished into his wilderness and one cannot feed oneself on diamonds. For a morsel of
bread he gives millions in objects of value. But the bread is in the hands of the State Central Organization
and this is in the hands of the Jews: so everything, everything that the common man thought that he was
winning for himself, flows back again to his seducers
And the Right has further completely forgotten that democracy is fundamentally not German: it is Jewish. It
has completely forgotten that this Jewish democracy with its majority decisions has always been without
exception only a means towards the destruction of any existing Aryan leadership. The Right does not
understand that directly every small question of profit or loss is regularly put before so-called 'public opinion,'
he who knows how most skillfully to make this 'public opinion' serve his own interests becomes forthwith
master in the State. And that can be achieved by the man who can lie most artfully, most infamously; and in
the last resort he is not the German, he is, in Schopenauer's words, 'the great master in the art of lying' - the
Jew
There are only two possibilities in Germany; do not imagine that the people will forever go with the middle
party, the party of compromises; one day it will turn to those who have most consistently foretold the coming
ruin and have sought to dissociate themselves from it. And that party is either the Left: and then God help us!
for it will lead us to complete destruction - to Bolshevism, or else it is a party of the Right which at the last,
when the people is in utter despair, when it has lost all its spirit and has no longer any faith in anything, is
determined for its part ruthlessly to seize the reins of power - that is the beginning of resistance of which I
spoke a few minutes ago. Here, too, there can be no compromise - there are only two possibilities: either
victory of the Aryan or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew
And in the third place it was clear to us that this particular view is based on an impulse which springs from our
race and from our blood. We said to ourselves that race differs from race and, further, that each race in
accordance with its fundamental demands shows externally certain specific tendencies, and these tendencies
can perhaps be most clearly traced in their relation to the conception of work. The Aryan regards work as the
foundation for the maintenance of the community of the people amongst its members. The Jew regards work
as the means to the exploitation of other peoples. The Jew never works as a productive creator without the
great aim of becoming the master. He works unproductively, using and enjoying other people's work. And
thus we understand the iron sentence which Mommsen once uttered: 'The Jew is the ferment of
decomposition in peoples,' that means that the Jew destroys and must destroy because he completely lacks
the conception of an activity which builds up the life of the community. And therefore it is beside the point
whether the individual Jew is 'decent' or not. In himself he carries those characteristics which Nature has
given him, and he cannot ever rid himself of those characteristics. And to us he is harmful. Whether he harms
us consciously or unconsciously, that is not our affair. We have consciously to concern ourselves for the
welfare of our own people

And finally we were also the first to point the people on any large scale to a danger which insinuated itself into
our midst - a danger which millions failed to realize and which will nonetheless lead us all into ruin - the
Jewish danger. And today people are saying yet again that we were 'agitators.'
I would like here to appeal to a greater than I, Count Lerchenfeld. He said in the last session of the Landtag
that his feeling 'as a man and a Christian; prevented him from being an anti-Semite. I say: my feeling as a
Christian points me to my Lord and Saviour as a fighter. It points me to the Man who once in loneliness,
surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to the
fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as sufferer but as fighter. In boundless love as a
Christian and as a man I read through that passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and
seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders. How terrific was His fight for
the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more
profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a
Christian I have not duty to allow myself be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
And as a man I have the duty to see to it that human society does not suffer the same catastrophic collapse
as did the civilization of the ancient world some two thousand years ago - a civilization which was driven to its
ruin through this same Jewish people
And through the distress there is no doubt that the people has been aroused. Externally perhaps apathetic,
but within there is ferment. And many may say, 'It is an accursed crime to stir up passions in the people.' And
then I say to myself: Passion is already stirred through the rising tide of distress, and one day this passion will
break out in one way or another: and now I would ask those who today call us 'agitators': 'What then have
you to give to the people as a faith to which it might cling?'
Nothing at all, for you yourselves have no faith in your own prescriptions.
That is the mightiest thing which our Movement must create: for these widespread, seeking and straying
masses a new Faith which will not fail them in this hour of confusion, to which they can pledge themselves,
on which they can build so that they may at least find once again a place which may bring calm to their
hearts."

1. In the beginning of Hitlers speech, which government is he deploring?

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2. While the Germans were stripped of wealth after the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler saw wealth among them.
According to Hitler, who was wealthy and why?
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3. In Hitlers opinion, was the Marxist revolution successful in Russia? Explain.
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4. Describe Hitlers view of democracy.
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5. According to Hitler, how do races differ?
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6. According to Hitler, what is meant by the Jew is the ferment of decomposition in peoples?
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7. Explain whether or not Hitler believes there could be any decent Jewish people.
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8. According to Hitler, why did Christ have to shed blood upon the Cross?
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9. Why does Hitler believe that people were in need of his ideology?
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10. Having read the whole document, and having knowledge of the fact that the Nazi Party based a good
deal of its ideology on race, write a critical review of Hitlers point of view expressed in this document.
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LG 10 (Unit 4)

Post WWII Conferences + The United Nations; Cold War Begins:

Berlin Blockade and Airlift
READINGS:
*=Requir Title
ed

Pages

Falk: Student Workbook

121-135, 224-227

Howarth: The World Since 1900

First Edition

212; 224-229;

Howarth: The World Since 1900

Second Ed

195-196; 206-211

Demarco: The World This

Century

156-161

Mitchner and Tuffs: Global Forces 146-167; 174-180

Catchpole: Map History of the
Modern World

84-85; 88-89

Vocabulary (Define 26 Marks):

1. Bipolar world
2. Domino theory
3. Satellite states
4. Allied Control Council
5. Konrad Adenauer
6. Backyard
7. Buffer Zone
8. Truman Doctrine
9. Marshall Plan
10.
Berlin Blockade
11.
Berlin Airlift
12.
NATO
13.
Warsaw Pact
14.
Berlin Wall

15.
International Monetary
Fund
16.
World Bank
17.
Bretton Woods
18.
San Francisco Conference
19.
General Assembly
20.
Security Council
21.
Secretariat
22.
International Court of
Justice
23.
WHO
24.
UNESCO
25.
UNICEF
26.
Veto

Written Response Questions: Choose 4 to answer

1. How justified was the USSR in mistrusting the Western Powers in the period
1945 to 1950?
2. To what extent can the USSR be held responsible for the Cold War during the
years 1945 - 1949?
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3. Explain why relations between the USA and the USSR deteriorated into the Cold
War between 1945 and 1949.
4. Describe the situation in Europe between 1945 and 1949, which led to the Cold
War.
5. After 1945, the USA and the USSR considered Berlin to be a problem.
A) Explain why the USA and the USSR considered Berlin a problem after
1945.
B) Describe the effort made by the USA and the USSR to resolve the Berlin
problem after 1945.
6. The Berlin Blockade of 1948-1949 was the first major post war confrontation
between the Superpowers.
A) Explain the events that led up to this confrontation.
B) Explain how the confrontation was resolved.
7. To what extent has the United Nations been successful in achieving
international cooperation?

Focus Questions: Choose One

1. Evaluate the role of the United Nations in advancing international cooperation.
2. Examine critical developments of the Cold War including the division of
Germany and US policy of Containment.
Choose only ONE of the focus questions to do.

LG 11 (Unit 4)

Topics: Korean War; Hungary and Czechoslovakia

READINGS:
*=Requir Title
ed

Pages

Falk: Student Workbook

134-140

Howarth: The World Since

1900 First Edition

229-236; 247-248

Howarth: The World Since

1900 Second Ed

211-218; 228

Demarco: The World This

Century

171-173; 175-176; 212-214

Mitchner and Tuffs: Global

Forces

183-185; 186-188; 195-197

Catchpole: Map History of the 122-123

Modern World

Vocabulary
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

McCarthyism
Korean War
Douglas MacArthur
38th Parallel
Inchon Landing
De-Stalinization
Wadyslaw Gomulka
Imre Nagy

9. Hungarian Rising
10.
Alexander Dubcek
11.
Socialism with a Human
Face
12.
Prague Spring
13.
Brezhnev Doctrine
14.
Warsaw Pact
15.
Communist Bloc

Written Response Questions

1. Despite claims to equality, the USSR firmly controlled the Eastern European
states which lay within its sphere of influence.
A) Define sphere of influence.
B) Describe how the USSR firmly controlled the Eastern European states
during the
period 1945 to 1980.
2. Explain the causes of the Korean War and how it became a full-scale Cold War
conflict.
3. Describe the goals and outcomes of the 1956 Hungarian and 1968
Czechoslovakian challenges to the system imposed upon them by the Soviet
Union.
Focus Question
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1. Examine critical developments of the Cold War. The above Focus question must
be written in proper ESSAY FORMAT Or; As an annotated Timeline 1950 1970 or
a concept map

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LG 12 (Unit 4)

Topics: Space Race/Technology; Cuban Missile Crisis

READINGS:
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ed

Pages

Falk: Student Workbook

141-149, 151-154

Howarth: The World Since 236-244

1900 First Edition
Howarth: The World Since 218-219; 219-224
1900 Second Ed

Demarco: The World This

Century

175; 223-228

Mitchner and Tuffs: Global 188-191

Forces
Catchpole: Map History of 124-125; 146-151
the Modern World

Vocabulary
1. Cuban Revolution
2. Fulgencio Batista
3. Fidel Castro
4. Bay of Pigs
5. Cuban Missile Crisis
6. ICBM
7. MAD
8. Pre-emptive strike
9. Peaceful Co-existence
10.
Eisenhower Doctrine
11.
Sputnik

12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.

U-2 Incident
John Foster Dulles
Berlin Wall
Nationalization
Quarantine
Hot Line
Deterrence
Partial Test Ban Treaty
Proliferation
JFK
The Kremlin
Conventional Weapons

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Written Response Questions: Do 4

1. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a victory for President Kennedy. Assess the
accuracy of this statement.
2. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the high point of the Cold War.
A) Describe the developments which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis
and then U.S.
actions during the crisis
B) Explain how the crisis was resolved and what measures were taken
to preserve
world peace.
3. The urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base constitutes
an explicit threat to the peace and security of the Americas. President Kennedys
broadcast (1962).
A) Describe the steps taken by the United States to remove this
threat.
B) Explain the results of the steps taken by the USA.
4. To what extent did Khrushchevs policies reflect his stated desire for Peaceful
Co-existence.
Focus Question:
Research Assignment.
Purpose: In order to get a full understanding of what happened during the Cold War, it is
essential that we look closely at the following events that nearly lead to a third world war.
In order for this to happen, some research and time will be needed to get the information
across to the rest of the class. This will be a group (2-3 people) assignment. Once you
have selected your event, start early so that you are not leaving it to the last minute. If
you are not anywhere near this learning guide, you will have to go ahead with this
assignment and go back to the other learning guides once this assignment is finished.
Note: This task will not be onerous if each member of the group contributes equally.

1. Korea 1950-1953
2. Suez 1956
3. Hungary 1956
4. Berlin 1958-1961
5. U-2 Crisis 1960
6. The Caribbean (Cuban) Crisis 1958-1962
7. Vietnam 1964-1973
8. Indonesian Coup 1966
9. Czechoslovakia 1968
10. Berlin Wall
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A. Research the conflict looking at the following situations.

i) What was the conflict about?
ii) Where was the conflict? Use a map in your presentation.
iii) Describe what happened through the eyes of the United States and the Soviet Union.
(ideological differences between Communism and Democracy/Capitalism)
-concentrate on self-justification, assigning blame
-who was the aggressor and who started the conflict?
iv) What was the outcome of the crisis and was there a winner and a loser?
Note: Please see me about adapting your assignment if you are having a hard time getting the
information.
B. Presentation: You are going to be presenting your topic to the class or the teacher. A power point
presentation is preferred.
Please make sure that the following items are included in your presentation.
a summary sheet that you can hand out to all members of the class.
a map of the area.
clear and precise information on the topic

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Unit 4 Test

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