Totalitarian Nation Assignments

¢ NOTES:  Make sure you communicate with your team this weekend.  1 and 2 should be completed and ready to share on Monday.  You are each responsible for an assignment.  If you do not cooperate and produce for your group, I will grade you separately.  Get phone numbers and/or

emails!!

World History:    Totalitarian Nation              Dr. Steinberg

Assignment:

¢Your team will create a power point representing a totalitarian government

¢Your Government will conduct a ‘rally’ (in class) with your followers.  The class will be your ‘citizens’ you must indoctrinate.  Your rally (10 min) must communicate a national  identity the supports the purpose of your government.  Include the elements below:

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Leader, powerpoint/media specialist, researchers, art coordinator, lead presenter, Dictator

Required Elements

1.1.  State the objectives of your political party or government and how will you reach them. Include the time and place of this government. 20  (Are you trying to create national unity?  Conquer other lands?  Remove rivals?  Remove undesirable groups?

2.2.  Include the name and  motto, map, flag, and pledge of allegiance.  40

3.3.  Identify 5 Key laws that promote your objectives 20

4.Describe your Secret Police.  Name. Power.  Operations:  collecting information on opponents,  fear tactics, punishment, elimination  20

5.Write the lyrics for your national anthem 20

6.Write a leaflet with 3 short Articles about the current news (laws, events, people)  Create a Political cartoon that serves the purpose of creating a scapegoat or uses specific stereotypes 40

7.Design 2 Propaganda posters that have a clearly defined message and audience intent; use a persuasive strategy 40

Anti Semitism and the Coming War

HW:  p. 483:  Describe the Anti-Semitic Policies, Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht,,  Complete Reading Check. Answer:  4 

 

Trace at least 6 steps Hitler took to create a totalitarian Nazi State?  How did he finally isolate the Jews from the other Germans? 

 

¢P. 536-7 Germany’s Path…to War ; list the first steps he took to increase his military, etc and grab land.

1.Describe the Nazi youth camps.

HITLER YOUTH 10-18; started in 1926; pledge your life to Hitler by… 1939 at war

Describe the boys camp

What does each of the four pictures tell you about the Nazi Movement?  How did they show their

dedication? Do the Connection to the past, 1,2

 

 

Hitlers Bio. Read and Write your own bio of Hitler

HW:  Copy the main idea read p. 479  

Using the biographical handout and text book;  write a short biography of Hitler: 

 

Read 7 paragraphs 

 

WRITE TWO PARAGRAPHS

1.  Hitler grows up and forms his ideas and philosophy.

1.His Childhood,

2.his ideas:  anti-semitism

2.  Hitler becomes a leader and gains power.

1.the Nazi party,

2.Treaty of Versailles

3.Describe the Nazi Party

4.MeinKampf;

5.Enabling Act

6.Lebensraum=?

1.List Hitlers positive and negative characteristics as a leader

Draw his face next to your bio.

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Mussolin and Hitlers Strategies for Achieving Totalitarianism

Read 472
complete geography skills;

 

Read 472-73  Rise of Fascism

Notes:  list examples of Mussolinis Fascism in action: What actions were influential in consolidating his power?  What organizations?  What laws?  etc.

 

List examples that were similar to Hitler’s goals

Text: Rise of Dictators; Research on Internet

Read p.471 the Rise of Dictators 

copy main idea
Read Voices:  identify 3 words or phrases of Mussolini that describe totalitarianism;  

Read 471 answer reading check;
Read and define:1. totalitarian state (6 ideas), 2. fascism;

Choose to Research:
Genocide Watch:  genocidewatch.net/alerts; explore one of the countries on the interactive map:  Who is being subjected to persecution?  Why?  How many?  Refugees? 
List the 10 states/stages of Genocide below the interactive map.

OR.
Research "Who Really Burned Down the Reichstag"?  Hitler or the Communists?  3 sources.  Do they corroborate?  Are they reliable.

repost of documents and prompt!! and new HW:

Document 2:

“I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.”
-Nicholas II

Document 3:

“His character is the source of all our misfortunes. His outstanding weakness is a lack of willpower.” Sergei Witte

Document 4:

Kerensky, the leader of the government that took over from the Czar in 1917 said in his memoirs, Crucifixion of Liberty in 1934;

"The daily work of a monarch he found intolerably boring. He could not stand listening long or seriously to ministers' reports, or reading them."

Document 5:

Telegram dispatched by the Serbian Crown Prince, Alexander, to Russian Czar Tsar Nicholas II in the midst of the so-called July Crisis of 1914. 

“Yesterday the Austro-Hungarian Government presented to the Serbian Government a note about the murders at Sarajevo. Ever since this horrible crime was committed Serbia has condemned it.  We are willing to investigate the plot and we will severely punish any Serbians who are found to be involved. But, the demands from Austria-Hungary are unnecessarily humiliating for Serbia. However, they say we must agree to all of them in forty-eight hours or Austria-Hungary is threatening us with war. We are prepared to accept some of the conditions but we need more time and the

Austro-Hungarian army is already preparing for war.  We are unable to defend ourselves and we beg your Majesty to help us. The friendship which your Majesty has always shown toward Serbia gives us confidence that our appeal to your noble heart will be answered.”

-          CROWN PRINCE ALEXANDER Belgrade, July 24 1914

  

Document 6:

On 12 March 1917 Rodzianko, the President of the Duma, telegraphed the Tsar:

“The situation is getting worse.   Something has to be done immediately. Tomorrow is too late. The last hour has struck. The future of the country and the royal family is being decided.”  

Putting it all Together:

1.  In one well written paragraph (topic sentence, 4 middle sentences, conclusion, transitions) answer this question:

Based upon these sources, what is the cause of the Russian Revolution? Support with 4 pieces of evidence and cite them.

  HW:

HW:  Summarize Preview p. 463

(per. 1 )Read 465 inflation; describe the changing value of money.  What the inflation rate in Germany? Define:  Inflation
468  Complete Geography Skills  1,2 

Find out/google whether Hitler was saved from drowning by a priest!   
Is the source reliable?  Who wrote it?  from what perspective.
What is the context.  When and where was it created.
Corroboration:  Do other documents agree?  Are they reliable.  

see topinfopost.com and 2 other sources

Finally....Write a paragraph arguing that Hitler was saved or that there is no proof that this
was Hitler who was rescued.

 

DBQ Russian Rev: Documents and Prompt. You must have an argument/thesis.

Russian Revolution DBQ

Directions

Examine the primary source cartoon and primary source quotes below and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper.

 

         Document 1:

      

        From a Russian newspaper 1917

 

      

 

 

 

   

 

Document 1 Guiding Questions:

1.        This cartoon was published in 1917. How is this date significant to what was happening in Russia and WWI?

2.        What is the opinion of the Russian people toward Czar Nicholas? Use evidence from the political cartoon.

3.        What is the Czar doing? What do you see in the background? How can cartoons like this change public opinion?

4.        What two examples of symbolism in this cartoon?

Document 2 Guiding Questions:

1.        Provide 2 examples from Czar Nicholas’ reign that prove he really was not ready or equipped to rule?

Document 3-4 Guiding Questions:

1.        Provide one example of historical fact from Czar Nicholas’ reign that proves these quotes true.

Document 5 Guiding Questions:

1.        Why did Czar Nicholas agree to help Serbia?

2.        Why was this a poor decision?

3.        What happened in July 1914 that encouraged Austria-Hungary to set a 48 hour deadline?

Document 6 Guiding Questions:

1.        What is getting worse?

2.        How did the Czar’s response help lead to the revolution?

Putting it all Together:

1.  In one well written paragraph (thesis/topic sentence, 4 middle sentences, conclusion, transitions) answer this question:

Based upon these sources, what is the cause of the Russian Revolution? Support with 4 pieces of evidence and cite them.

You need a thesis statement in your topic sentence.   Then prove your thesis by using the sources for your evidence.

You may also use information from you text book.

 

If you didn't finish in class: summary of Russian Rev.

¢Russian Revolution

¢Objective: What were the conditions that brought about revolution in Russia?

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1.Unrest such as.…………………….. leads to revolution:

2.Conducting the War: The Czar of Russia was……………………….

3.The Russian military was……………………

4.Soldiers were sent to the front without……………. They were told to………………….

5.Between 1914 and 1916 t____________million Russian soldiers had been killed

6.Unrest at home: The Czar was an autocrat:  explain

7.His German born wife Alexandra was increasingly influenced by ___________

8.Rasputin was a ____________

9.While the Czar was off fighting the war his wife ______________________________She made no decisions without first consulting Rasputin

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¢Create a timeline of events from the Russian Revolution

¢March 8, 1917: 10,000 women…..

¢March 10: A general strike in Petrograd…..

¢March 12th:  The Duma sets up a …

¢…

¢April 1917: German military leaders ship Lenin back to Russia, in hopes that he…   

¢November 6th: The Bolsheviks seize the….

¢March 3rd, 1918: Lenin signs the

¢July 16th Nicholas II and his family

¢Directions:  answer questions below using suggested vocabulary.

¢VOCABULARY:

¢Germany      

Russia      

 Reds     

 Whites  

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk  

Czar Nicholas II

¢Czarina Romanov  

Rasputin Assassination  

Kerensky Government

¢V.I. Lenin  

Bolsheviks  

Trotsky War 

Communism  

Civil War  

Red Terror

¢Communism 

 Socialism  

Capitalism  

Soviets  

Propaganda  

Workers

¢Peasants  

Bread and Peace  

Individual liberties  

Power and Control  

Patriotism

¢Nationalize

USE above vocabulary.  Write complete sentences, no longer than 12 words.  You must use at lease 2 key vocabulary words in each answer. 
Procedure:  Read the question, reference pages in text, list key words, answer!
 

¢Question 1: Describe the Social Conditions of Russia after WWI under the Czar. Was his government popular?

¢Use pages 441, 442 and 443

¢Question 2: Power and Control: How were the Bolsheviks able to take control of Russia in 1918? What made them successful?

¢Use pages 445

¢Question 3: What is Bolshevism? Describe the new political system in Russia under Lenin’s leadership.

¢Use pages 443, 444 and yesterday’s assignment.

¢Questions 4: Diary Entry, October 1917: Imagine you were a wealthy capitalist in Russia in 1918. You live in Moscow, the capital city, and the Bolsheviks are marching in the streets. What are you feeling?  First person from your imagination.

Russian rev. continues/assessment

p.446 ASSESSMENT:   

Answer Picturing History

 

then....#2, 5, 6, 7 

 

What were the similarities between the Russian Revolution and the English, American, and French revolutions?

Red, Red, Reds.

p. 445-6 Triumph of the Communists and the Red Army.

Describe the Red Army; 

Describe Trotsky.  Describe the actions of Trotsky;

What was the Goal of the White Army? 

IN YOUR OWN WORDS, Explain communism. Give two examples how a communist country would operate its government, farms, factories, army, etc.

How did the communist party use the Cheka to keep power?