World History Mid Term Project

Working alone or in groups of 2-3, you and your partners are going to develop a presentation (powerpoint, prezi, other) where you answer the following question: what caused World War II?

World War II was not caused by any one factor, but a series of factors. In your PowerPoint you are going to examine 8 of these factors telling me

1) a brief background of the event and
2) how this factor lead to World War II

Lastly, you are going to pick which factor you think was most important in causing World War II and why.

The topics included are:


The Peace Treaties after World War I
Failures of the League of Nations
Abyssinia
Manchuria
Stock Market Crash
The Depression
The Rise of Hitler
Hitler's Foreign Policy
Appeasement
Mussolini
The Rise of Fascism in Japan
The Rise of Fascism in Italy
United States Isolationism
The Nazi-Soviet Pact
Fear of Communism

Each presentation should include: Group names, images, and a works cited page (minimum 12 slides).

You will be graded on:
1) Following Directions
2) using your own words (copy/pasting is dumb and you don't learn anything from it).
3) using appropriate sources and telling me where you got your work from and
4) effort


This is a big assignment (WORTH A TEST GRADE) and the LAST IMPORTANT ASSIGNMENT IN THIS CLASS. YOU WANT TO PASS/GET A GOOD GRADE? SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT MY DUDE.

Appropriate Pages for Midterm

Here are some sites you can use. Click around and you can find all sorts of information on different topics. You aren't limited to these sites, but they can help you:

Assignments, the Textbook - old fashioned but works!

http://johndclare.net/

http://www.historyonthenet.com/ww2/causes.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/causes-of-world-war-two/

http://blogs.bu.edu/guidedhistory/moderneurope/catherine-shen/

Treaty of Versailles:

http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/treaty-of-versailles
http://chapman2014.weebly.com/leading-to-world-war-ii.html

Failure of L of N:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/league-of-nations-failures/
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Collective-Security-The-1930s-and-the-failure-of-the-league-of-nations.html

Abyssinia/Ethiopia Invasion:
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/italy-1900-to-1939/abyssinia/
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2014/01/italys-invasion-ethiopia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/manchuriarev1.shtml

Manchuria:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/manchuria.htm
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1499.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/manchuriarev1.shtml

Stockmarket Crash and Depression:
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/essays/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/wwii/jb_wwii_subj.html
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/022516/economic-conditions-helped-cause-world-war-ii.asp

Hitler's Rise:
https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007671
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/hitlerpowerrev1.shtml


Hitler Foreign Policy:
RUT worksheet
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005203
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/hitlersaimsandactionsrev1.shtml
http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII2.htm

Appeasement:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/the-road-to-world-war-ii-how-appeasement-failed-to-stop-hitler-a-646481.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/chamberlainandappeasementrev1.shtml

December 6th-9th

Hey guys!

. I made this video clip for you to laugh at.

12/6
Read the following on Appeasement

Answer the following Questions:

1)Study Sources A-D and list four things British people thought about Appeasement

2) Using Sources A–E make a list of 'points for' and points against' the policy of appeasement

3)  Which of Sources A–D suggest Hitler would carry on as long as people kept appeasing him?

4) Complete this Cloze Activity using the reading

if finished, move on to next day's work

12/07 Tuesday READ Manchurian Crisis

1) create a timeline of important events related to Japan from 1853 to 1933.  Please include a symbol for each

2) Explain the cartoons on the 3rd and 4th pages.  What do they say about the League of Nations? Japan? What do you think the cartoonist thinks of everything going on?

Read this

3) If you had to pick the biggest successes of the league of Nations what would it be?  What about the biggest failures?

if finished, move on to next day's work

12/08 Wednesday READ Mussolini and Abyssinia

1) create a timeline of important events in Mussolni's life leading up to his death.  Include his rise to power and use symbols.

2) Japan, Germany, and Italy are all considered to be Fascist.  What does that mean? (you can look it up and second page of this reading may help) how are these countries different? Similar?

3) Do the Discussion Questions on the second page

4) Do the activity questions on page 59.

5) Do the activity questions on page 60.


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