This thorough activity on the rise of dictators and militarism in the interwar era is perfect for helping students to understand the events that led to authoritarian rule taking hold in Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union. The lesson features short readings on 16 events from the interwar era (1919-1939). These include: The Beer Hall Putsch Reichstag Fire Great Purge Spanish Civil War Italian invasion of Ethiopia Japanese invasion of Manchuria Nuremberg Laws Munich Conference Nanjing Massacre Kristallnacht ...and more. Students learn about each event and place them along a timeline based on each country. A lesson plan details several ways you can use the readings and timeline, including as stations, with students in pairs, grouped by country, in order by date, or by using the "drag-and-drop" Google Drive option. An analysis worksheet serves as a culminating activity to help students make connections and understand how these events led to authoritarianism and World War 2. A Google Doc for this is also included. Answer keys for the timeline and worksheet are included along with an online reading option with audio narration. You can also download this resource as part of my Complete World War 2 Unit Plan Bundle here. Thanks so much for checking it out!

Kids love glue, scissors, and engagement! Why not combine this love with learning about the types of government around the world? This mini-unit focuses on the four basic government systems: monarchy dictatorship democracy republic Students will complete a note-taking activity with a notebook foldable and then experience each form of government in a History Lab! Students are asked to build the tallest paper tower possible but there is a twist!!!! Each time they build the tower, they need to follow the directions of one of the four governments! A History Lab is a hands-on activity that allows students to experience history and not just read about it! In this mini unit you will find: Suggested activities ☀Powerpoint and PDF notes on the four forms of government ☀Notebook foldable template ☀History Lab that includes four stations with directions for the students, supplies needed, and Act It ☀Out Cards ☀Notebook processing activity asking students to rate each government ☀Culminating writing assignment ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Related Products ▶️ Three Branches of Government Leveled Readings and Task Cards - Differentiated ▶️ U.S Government Level Up! Gamify with Readings and Badges ▶️ Articles of Confederation Leveled Readings,Task Cards, and Notebook Foldables ▶️ Creating the Constitution Essential & Leading Questions and Bulletin Board ▶️ Interactive Notebook Flippables: Constitutional Convention ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ If you would like to see this activity and others being used in the classroom, head on over to my blog To Engage Them All! Also, follow my store so you can be updated on new items. All my items are 50% off for the first 48 hours!!!!

This worksheet features a primary source cartoon from World War 2 featuring Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito carving up the world. Students must analyze the cartoon and included caption, then complete 6 analysis questions.This is a great way to incorporate primary source Common Core strategies into a...

Mix things up by teaching with Videos VideoGraphic Organizers are interactive graphic organizers designed to use short video clips rather than readings to lead students through learning complicated topics. They include things like Venn Diagrams, Timelines and other graphic organizer activities that use the drag and drop graphical functionality of google slides to create immersive interactive worksheets. Distance Learning Done Right! Especially during distance learning, students can burn out on the immense amounts of reading they have to do. This type of activity will help engage students in a new way. Designed for Google Classroom Select "Make a copy for each student" in google classroom to turn these into interactive worksheets. In this Activity This activity consists of a Venn diagram comparing Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Students watch the video "Rules for Rulers" which lists three strategies that all powerful people must employ to gain and retain power. They then drag preset events, strategies and topics to the correct section of the Venn diagram and highlight them to match which rule they illustrate. Note: Each dragged topic is also a hyperlink to a 2-5 minute video explaining it. **Warning: This activity does link to videos on sensitive topics such as the holocaust and holodomor (If using it with younger kids, you may wish to modify some of the videos used).

This worksheet features a primary source cartoon from World War 2 featuring Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito carving up the world. Students must analyze the cartoon and included caption, then complete 6 analysis questions.This is a great way to incorporate primary source Common Core strategies into a...

Do you use Google Classroom? Do you use Crash Course? This is a great resource for you and your students which can easily be integrated into your online classroom. This resource is a hyperlinked Google doc with student comprehension questions and answer key. Economic Depression and Dictators: Crash Course European History #37 Episode Synopsis: We're still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of militaristic dictatorships in Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Spain, and the economic depression that set the stage for their rise Sources - Hunt, Lynn et al. Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford St. Martins, 2019. - Kershaw, Ian. Hitler, A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010. - Kotkin, Stephen. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941. New York: Penguin, 2017. - Slezkine, Yuri. The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. - Smith, Bonnie G. Europe in the Contemporary World, 1900 to the Present. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Want to know more about how to integrate Crash Course into your classroom? - Use my free 5 Tips to Make the Most of Crash Course World History (applies to US) Recommended Products: Interwar Bundle ... Coming Soon! - Crash Course European History #35 Russian Revolution & Civil War - Crash Course European History #36 Post-World War I Recovery - Crash Course US History #32 The Roaring 20's - *Crash Course European History #36 Economic Depression & Dictators Other Blended Bundles Crash Course World War I Bundle For more products like this one check out more of my products by clicking here ______________________________________________________________________ When you purchase this product be sure to leave a customer review so I can improve this product and you can receive credit toward future Teacher Pay Teachers purchase. You can do this by doing the following (1) Log into your teachers pay teachers account. (2) Click on Provide Feedback. Please be honest. Did this help? Are the directions clear? Could it be better? Want to know when more products like this one are available? To receive product updates click on the green Follow star next to my stores logo on the right hand of the screen. I am working on a variety of bundles and products for US, World, European History, and Geography. As well as tips for rules procedures. If you're interested click here. *Please remember that the developer of this product has a family and has invested time away from them to develop this product which will allow more time for you to spend with yours or on areas of your life you value. This product is not to be shared with others but solely to be used for your personal use in your classroom. Thank you

Students learn about the first three years of World War Two in this engaging lesson utilizing multiple learning styles. The lesson includes - a 2 page clear summary reading on the first few years of WWII and various Axis gains - a 1 page dramatic "blitzkrieg" primary source excerpt by Erwin Rommel on the piercing of the Maginot Line in France - a 2 page worksheet with a vocabulary matching activity and multiple comprehension & analysis questions based on the two readings - a documentary excerpt video link on the invasion of Poland and German blitzkrieg - a "Diagramming Early WWII" map activity, with instructions based on the readings This lesson offers prompts for great class discussions, with students debating morality of wartime alliances, hypothesizing rationales for various countries' actions, "fixing" the Allied Powers' early WWII mistakes, and predicting actions significant to the remainder of the war. Visual learners are aided by the engaging documentary excerpt and the map diagramming activity. Material covered includes: - Invasion of Poland and end of appeasement - Blitzkrieg and "total war" - Soviet/German Non-Aggression Pact - German penetration of the Maginot Line and invasion of France - Evacuation of Dunkirk - Charles de Gaulle, ”Free France,” and Vichy France - Erwin Rommel and North African campaign - London Blitz - Other Italian and German invasions/occupations/alliances from 1938-1941 A detailed three page teacher answer key is included. You may be interested in the following related resources: "Perspectives on a Dictator" Activity: Intro to WWII Rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany Causes of WWII: The Road to War Pearl Harbor and the U.S. Entrance to WWII https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Living-History GET FREE TPT CREDITS: If you use this product, please leave a review! Not only is it helpful for me, you can get feedback credits on future purchases! Simply go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. All new products are discounted at least 50% for the first 48 hours after posting - become a follower to catch these deals!

Wednesday night we had our ward's New Beginnings. It was a great night! Unfortunately we don't really have any new beehives coming in this year, so on that front it was a little anticlimactic, but we still wanted to give the girls a fun night and have a chance to talk a little bit about Personal Progress. I was reading 1 Nephi a few weeks ago and I came across a scripture where Nephi tells his brothers to "be strong." A little light bulb went off in my head, it was like one of those phrases that was perfect for me at that moment. At the beginning of January (like everyone else in the world) I joined a gym. I have been spending a lot of time there lately, trying to get strong. Along with my quest for physical strength I have also been trying to get stronger spiritually. I want to be strong. I want to be strong in every aspect of my life. I started thinking a lot about this. I knew that New Beginnings would be coming up and I thought it would be a perfect theme for our night. As a Young Women's leader, I hope that all of my girls will "be strong." I want them to "be strong" in their testimonies, in their beliefs, in their morals. I want them to "be strong" physically, mentally, and emotionally. I want them to be strong young women! When I thought of strength, Rosie the Riveter popped into my head as a visual image of strength, and especially a woman with great strength. I'm very much a visual person and I love that classic image. I suggested these ideas at our presidency meeting and everyone was on board. We ended up not using the 1 Nephi scripture, but rather one in the D&C because of context, but they both had the same idea. We used D&C 38:15: Therefore, be ye strong from henceforth; fear not, for the kingdom is yours. Me and the Beehives were in charge of decorations and decided to run with the whole red, yellow, and blue idea and to throw in polka dots where ever we could. One really fun thing we did was have a photobooth where you could dress up like Rosie the Riveter. Everyone loved it! Read on for more details about our New Beginnings and don't miss the free printables at the bottom! For the front of the room I knew I wanted to have a poster with our theme scripture. Some of the girls liked the idea of having weights too, and then at the suggestion of my mom's friend I also got some sunflowers. They are such a strong and beautiful flower. On Tuesday while I was gathering everything to head over to the church to set up, I was in my basement and saw our old yellow table, just sitting in the corner storing boxes and gathering dust and I thought, "I have to bring that! It's perfect!" so I loaded it up in my van (SO glad I have a humongous car and can do stuff like that at the drop of a hat). ^^We usually have our New Beginnings and Young Women in Excellence in the Primary Room. The idea of competing with the decorations and bulletin boards that are already up always stresses me out. So whenever I'm in charge of decorations I always suggest turning around and facing the back wall so we don't have to worry about those things. It's like a blank slate. The Mia Maids were in charge of the food. We tried to have some "strong" snacks. Everything was delicious. The Laurels were in charge of the program. Each Laurel gave a little message about one of the values and how it makes them strong. And then like I mentioned, we had an awesome time with the photobooth. I bought some butcher paper at the school supply store and printed the letters on an engineering print at Staples and then cut them out and glued them on. It turned out exactly how I hoped it would. One of the counselors in our bishopric works for HP and let us borrow a printer to print the photos right there which the girls thought was really fun. I brought a little crate to keep the polka dot fabric headbands and denim shirts in which we had next to a mirror. I'm really glad I remembered a mirror because, you know, teenage girls and cameras... Here are the invitations we used, printed 4 to a page. If you would like to download a blank version (add your own date, time, and ward), click here. For all of the text I used Futura, Condensed Medium. Here is the poster with our theme scripture. I made it 16x20, and had it printed at Sam's Club. Click here to download. And if you want the template for our program you can download it here.