Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain how the Nazis used antisemitism to foment hate and create a shared enemy in order to gain power prior to World War II. Clarification 2: Students will explain how events during the Weimar Republic led to the rise of Nazism (e.g., Dolchstoss, Ruhr Crisis, hyperinflation, the Great Depression, unemployment, the 1920’s Nazi platform, the Dawes Plan, the Golden Age, the failure of the Weimar Republic). Clarification 3: Students will recognize German culpability, reparations and military downsizing as effects of the Treaty of Versailles. |
