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GermanyhistoryGrade 11-12

Cold War (1945-1991): Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, including primary source video news recordings from the night the wall fell, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the events leading up to the fal…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Dachau Concentration Camp

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the story of the Dachau Concentration Camp, the experiences of camp prisoners throughout its his…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

German Unification: A Lost Opportunity: The Frankfurt Parliament of 1848-49

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the basis for the 1848 revolutions in the Germanic lands, the debates on German unification that…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Great War (1914-1918): Germany's Plan to Win: The Schlieffen Plan

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the different parts of the Schlieffen Plan, how the plan as a who was supposed to prevent a two-…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Imperial Germany (1871-1918): Otto von Bismarck & The Triple Alliance: Maintaining the Balance of Power

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Bismarck's foreign policy from the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 to the Iron Chancellor…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Imperial Germany (1871-1918): Otto von Bismarck's Domestic Policy: Paternalistic State Socialism

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the major elements of Otto von Bismarck's domestic policy for the German Reich during his time a…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Imperial Germany (1871-1918): Otto von Bismarck's Realpolitik: Forcing German Unification

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Otto von Bismarck's ideas behind "Realpolitik" as they related to unifying the German lands and …

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Imperial Germany (1871-1918): Peaceful Imperialism: Bismarck and the Berlin Conference of 1884

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Otto von Bismarck's reasons for calling the Berlin Conference of 1884, what provisions the Europ…

GermanyEnglish / Language ArtsGrade 11-12

Interwar Europe (1919-1939): All Quiet on the Western Front

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, including selections from All Quiet on the Western Front, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the story behind the main characters and plot of Re…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto (1848)

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, including a thorough examination of the Communist Manifesto itself, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Marx's ideas behind history …

GermanyhistoryGrade 11-12

Medieval Europe (476-1450): Charlemagne: Emperor of the Romans 800 CE

Through the investigation of selected primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the importance of Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance, how the Frankish king was able to e…

GermanyhistoryGrade 11-12

Protest Reformation: Thirty Years War and the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the basic story behind the Thirty Years War, why the war broke out and how the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) for…

GermanyHistoryGrade 11-12

Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther and the 95 Theses

Through an in-depth analysis of primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the basic outlines of Martin Luther's 95 Theses, his views on salvation and the Roman Catholic Church's …

GermanyArtGrade 11-12

Weimar Germany (1918-1933): Walter Gropius: The Bauhaus and Internationalism

Through an in-depth analysis of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain Walter Gropius's ideas behind internationalism, how the Bauhaus School in its different forms tr…

GermanyhistoryGrade 11-12

World War II (1939-1945): Operation Barbarossa: Germany's Invasion of the Soviet Union

Through the use of various primary and secondary sources, students in this lesson will identify, understand and be able to explain the major parts of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the objectives each part of…