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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= E1 Historical Knowledge, concepts, themes, and patterns Grade 9-Diploma "World War II and Post-War United States 1939-1961 Students understand major eras, major enduring themes, and historic influences in the United States and world history, including the roots of democratic philosophy, ideals, and institutions in the world. b.Analyze and critique major historical eras, major enduring themes, turning points, events, consequences, and people in the history of the United States and world and the implications for the present and future. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: Social Studies E. History

//What understandings are desired?//
•Traumatic global events such as World War II can help one better understand and make informed decisions about the present and future. •It is an important skill to critique world-wide social and political events (such as World War II), enduring themes, consequences, turning points, events, and people in the history of the United States and world. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •The use of primary and secondary sources are essential when studying and researching World War II and other events in history.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•How can the study of World War II help one better understand and make informed decisions about the present and future? •Why is it an important skill to critique World War II (or other historical eras), enduring themes, consequences, turning points, events, and people in the history of the United States and world? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •Why are primary and secondary sources important in terms of studying and researching World War II and other historical eras?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Terminology: Crystalnacht, Blitzkrieg, concentration camp, Antisemitism, holocaust, atomic bomb, Manhattan Project. •Sequence and timelines: The "big picture" of events from the rise and fall of Adolf Hitlers Nazi regime. || •Explain that history includes the study of the past based on the examination of a variety of primary and secondary sources and how history can help one better understand and make informed decisions about the present and future. •Trace and critique the roots and evolution of democratic ideals and constitutional principles in the history of the United States and the world using historical sources. •Use research (primary and secondary sources) to outline the events of World War II. •b. Analyze and critique major historical eras, major enduring themes, turning points, events, consequences, and people in the history of the United States and world and the implications for the present and future. •Consider possible outcomes of WWII if events had unrolled differently. •Be aware of the world-wide impact World War II had on a socio-political level. ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •Important events and people: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, General Dwight Eisenhower, D-Day, General George Patton.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**