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OUTER BANKS 7TH GRADE FIELD TRIP 03/21. STUDENTS MUST BE AT LIGON MIDDLE BY 5:00AM.

The World at War Suggested Content Overview
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Unit: The World at War

Suggested Content Overview

 

The Essential Standards and Common Core Standards for Social Studies focus on skills and concepts and do not specify content; however, common expectations regarding academic vocabulary and background knowledge may better facilitate the students’ mastery of key concepts and skills. To that end, consider including the following information while covering this unit.

 

Vocabulary:

  • Adolf Hitler
  • Allies
  • Anti-Semitism
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • Armistice
  • Axis
  • Battle of Britain
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Bolshevik Revolution
  • Central Powers
  • D-Day
  • Dictator
  • Fascism
  • Fourteen Points
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Great Depression
  • Holocaust
  • Josef Stalin
  • Kristallnacht
  • League of Nations
  • Manchuria
  • Marshall Plan
  • Militarism
  • Nazi Party
  • Neutrality
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Propaganda
  • Spanish Civil War
  • Superpowers
  • Totalitarianism
  • Treaty of Versailles
  • Trench Warfare
  • Triple Alliance
  • Triple Entente
  • U-boats
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • Weimar Republic
  • Western Front
  • Winston Churchill


 

Student Understandings:

  • The continued competition for resources and power led to the creation of divisive alliances in Europe in the early 20th Century.
  • In 1914, after the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, war broke out.  Nations quickly came to each other’s side and created a war that engulfed Europe and spread to other parts of the globe as well.
  • The war ended shortly before Russia departed and the United States joined, leaving behind millions of casualties, a new political map in Europe and fragile economic conditions around the world.
  • Out of these troubled times, dictators rose to seize power in countries like the newly formed Soviet Union, Germany, Japan and Italy.
  • Aggression by these nations led to a renewal of hostilities and the spark of another war.  This war would eclipse the 1st World War in terms of both devastation and treasure.
  • The war ended with the defeat of the Axis Powers and the creation of a fragile relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, two nations who had been allies during the 2nd war.

Mapping Skills:

On a map, students should be able to identify:

  • Berlin, Germany
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Estonia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Normandy, France
  • Poland
  • Sicily
  • Soviet Union
  • Yugoslavia

New Wake County Email policy
POSTED: 21/08/2013 at 1:55am  BY: Lester Francis Comments (0) Comment on Post

Just a reminder--beginning with the 2013-14 school year, all WCPSS students and staff must use WCPSS provided e-mail accounts for student to teacher e-mail communication.  There are a number of reasons why Wake County and other peer districts assign student email; a few of the reasons are:

* Students under the age of 13 are not legally allowed to create e-mail accounts with most major providers such as Google and Hotmail.

* Complies with Board Policy 2313, R&P 2313 and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

* Provides transparent communication between students and teachers.

* Allows intervention and investigations into e-mail harassment and/or cyber bullying.

* Honors Parent request to deny student e-mail.

* Teachers no longer required to keep up with a student's ever changing personal e-mail address.






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