Course Description

Welcome! This site is for students, parents, teachers and anyone else interested in the tenth-grade World History 2 Course at Santa Fe Prep.

The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Week 11: The Nazi Regime, Racial War and Genocide

Week of March 24-28, 2013
Welcome back to the last quarter of the school year.

This week is focused on how the Nazis took control of Germany, and then proceeded to transform the state and society for racial warfare.

Day 1: Monday, March 24
1. Review fourth quarter calendar project due dates (click here for more information).
- Document-based Question #3 (TBD)
- Independent Research papers and presentations (check sign up sheets!)
- Oral History Projects (click here for more information).
- Capstone Projects or final exams

2. Review previous key terms and persons from Week 10 (click here for more information).

3. Homework: Read primary source handouts on the Nazi seizure of power in groups, contextualize (using SOAPSTONE rubric), present and discuss:
a. Diary entries of Joseph Goebbels from January 29 and 30, 1933.
b. The Enabling Act (March 24, 1933).
c. Rudolf Diels' testimony for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
d. The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (April 7, 1933).

4a. Key terms: The Nazi Seizure of Power, The "Preussenschlag", Emergency Powers, Reichstag, The Reichstag Fire, "wild camps", the "Fuehrer", propaganda, GESTAPO, the SA, i.e., the "Brown Shirts," the SS, the "Horst-Wessel Lied", and "Gleichschaltung".
4b. Key persons: Chancellor Franz von Papen, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Frick, Herrmann Goering, Ernst Roehm,  Heinrich Himmler, and Rudolf Diels.

5. Question: How did the Nazis seize power? Make sure to explicitly use the primary sources above and your own knowledge to prepare your answer. Will be collected at the end of the week and returned in preparation for the next reading quiz on Monday, April 1.

Day 2: The Nazi Seizure of Power
1. In-class: Discuss the primary sources from the homework reading (see above) and discuss how the Nazis seized power in 1933.

2. Homework: Read the handout on Nazi euthanasia programs.
a. "The Fight Against Degeneration".
b. "Sterilization of 'Mentally Deficient' Children".
c. "The Euthanasia Program".

3. Key Terms: Volksgemeinschaft, The Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health, racial hygiene, eugenics, sterilization, euthanasia, and the T-4 program.
4. Key Persons: Reich Leader Philipp Bouhler and Dr. Karl Brandt.

4. Question: How did the Nazis attempt to racially transform German society? Make sure to explicitly use the primary sources above and your own knowledge to prepare your answer. Will be collected at the end of the week and returned in preparation for the next reading quiz on Monday, April 1.

Day 3: The Racial State
1. In-class: Discuss the primary sources on the Nazi racial programs and how the Nazis attempted to racially transform German society.

2. Homework: Read the handout by Christopher Browning, "One Day in Jozefow, and Eric Lichtblau's article from the New York Times, "The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking" (March 1, 2013).

3. Key Terms: "Final Solution", General Government, Ghetto, Trawniki and the Order Police.

4. Question: What happened in Jozefow and what, according to Browning, does the evidence suggest about German participation in the Holocaust?

5. Quiz #7 on Monday, April 1. Closed book and closed notes.



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