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=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= E. History E1. Historical Knowledge, Concepts, Themes, and Patterns Grade 9 - Diploma "World War II 1939-1945" 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 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:** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: Social Studies.

//What understandings are desired?//
• the Holocaust was not the only example of mass murder seen during the war. • the conclusion of World War II led to superpower status for the United States. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * • initial U.S. involvement in World War II was slow to happen.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• How was the Holocaust not the only example of mass murder during the war? • How did the conclusion of the war and other events lead to the United States assuming the role of superpower? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • Why was the United States slow to enter World War II?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•__Important Events and People__: Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Pearl Harbor, The Great Depression, The Holocaust, Winston Churchill, The Marshall Plan, Lend-Lease, Gulag Labor Camps, Hoovervilles, stock market crash, genocides, final solution, Concentration camps, ghetto, Auschwitz, Harry Truman, VE Day, VJ Day, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton, George W. Bush, Timothy Giethner, General David Petraeus. •__Sequence and timelines__: U.S. involvement (1941-1945), Adolf Hitler (1933-1945), U.S. as Superpower (1945-2009?). || •demonstrate what events prevented the United States from entering World War II. •evaluate what events led to the United States being a superpower by the end of the war. •decide if the United States still can be considered a superpower today. •b. analyze enduring themes, turning points, events, consequences, and people in World War II and the implications to the present and future. •assume the role of an ordinary German soldier and think about how/why you would be able to stop/do nothing about the Holocaust. •recognize that Hitler killed 12 million people and is considered purely evil, but Stalin killed 30 million people and goes down in history as a great leader. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * •__Vocabulary__: Allied Forces, Axis Powers, European theater.

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe