Welcome to 10th Grade World History
California State Content Standards
10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war.
5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murders of six million Jewish civilians.
6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with the particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
Common Core State Standards
Reading
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RI.9-10.1 Cite Strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA.Lteracy.RI.9-10.7 Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums, determining which details are emphasized in each account.
Writing
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well chosen details, and well-structures event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem;narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject under investigation.
Big Ideas/Essential Historical Questions
1. Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, creates war in Europe
during the Blitzkrieg Attack.
- How was Germany's geographical location and
advantage during the war?
2. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ultimately brings the
United States into the war.
- Why did the United States become involved in World
War after being "neutral" for most of the war?
3. Under Hitler's reign around 11 million people lost their
lives during the Holocaust.
- Why would German soldiers and civilians go along with
Nazi persecution of Jewish people?
- How do ethnic, racial, or religious distinctions affect society today?
4. The Allied Powers defeated the Axis Powers during World War II.
- What was the significance of D-Day?
- How did the United States gain support for the war back home?
5. After World War II Europe and Japan were left in financial ruins, while the United States became the world leader?
- What role did the atomic bomb play in the downfall of Japan? What would have been an alternative?
Unit Assessments
California State Content Standards
10.8 Students analyze the causes and consequences of World War II.
3. Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors.
4. Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war.
5. Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the Final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murders of six million Jewish civilians.
6. Discuss the human costs of the war, with the particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan.
Common Core State Standards
Reading
CCSS.ELA.Literacy.RI.9-10.1 Cite Strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA.Lteracy.RI.9-10.7 Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums, determining which details are emphasized in each account.
Writing
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well chosen details, and well-structures event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem;narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject under investigation.
Big Ideas/Essential Historical Questions
1. Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, creates war in Europe
during the Blitzkrieg Attack.
- How was Germany's geographical location and
advantage during the war?
2. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ultimately brings the
United States into the war.
- Why did the United States become involved in World
War after being "neutral" for most of the war?
3. Under Hitler's reign around 11 million people lost their
lives during the Holocaust.
- Why would German soldiers and civilians go along with
Nazi persecution of Jewish people?
- How do ethnic, racial, or religious distinctions affect society today?
4. The Allied Powers defeated the Axis Powers during World War II.
- What was the significance of D-Day?
- How did the United States gain support for the war back home?
5. After World War II Europe and Japan were left in financial ruins, while the United States became the world leader?
- What role did the atomic bomb play in the downfall of Japan? What would have been an alternative?
Unit Assessments
- In class debate- students will be assigned a war leader and defend their reasoning for war.
- Quiz to determine students retention of significant World War II facts.
- Essay in letter format where students pretend they are soldiers who survived D-Day and are writing to their families back home.
- Group presentation where students describe and analyze ways in which civilians became involved in the war efforts from home.