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| SS.912.HE.1.1: | Define the Holocaust as the planned and systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain why the Holocaust is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism. |
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| SS.912.HE.1.2: | Analyze how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism to create a common enemy of the Jews.Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain the origins of antisemitism and trace it from the Ancient World through the twenty-first century (e.g., Pagan, Christian, Muslim, Middle Ages, Modern era). Clarification 2: Students will explain the political, social and economic applications of antisemitism that led to the organized pogroms against Jewish people. Clarification 3: Students will examine propaganda (e.g., the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; The Poisonous Mushroom) that was and still is utilized against Jewish people both in Europe and around the world.
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| SS.912.HE.1.3: | Analyze how the Treaty of Versailles was a causal factor leading the rise of the Nazis, and how the increasing spread of antisemitism was manipulated to the Nazis’ advantage.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. |
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| SS.912.HE.1.4: | Explain how the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler.Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will compare Germany’s political parties and their system of proportional representation in national elections from 1920 to 1932. Clarification 2: Students will explain how the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Wehrmacht, the Gestapo and Hitler’s inner circle helped him gain and maintain power after 1933. Clarification 3: Students will explain how the following contributed to Hitler’s rise to power: Adolf Hitler’s Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler’s arrest and trial, Mein Kampf, the Reichstag fire, the Enabling Act, the Concordat of 1933, the Night of the Long Knives (the Rohm Purge), Hindenburg’s death and Hitler as Fuhrer.
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| SS.912.HE.1.5: | Describe how the Nazis utilized various forms of propaganda to indoctrinate the German population.Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain how opposing views were eliminated (e.g., book burnings, censorship, state control over the media). Clarification 2: Students will explain how identification, legal status, economic status and pseudoscience supported propaganda that was used to perpetuate the Nazi ideology of the “Master Race.” |
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| SS.912.HE.1.6: | Examine how the Nazis used education and youth programs to indoctrinate young people into the Nazi ideology.Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will explain the impact of the Hitler Youth Program and Band of German Maidens (German: Bund Deutscher Mädel). Clarification 2: Students will examine how the Nazis used the public education system to indoctrinate youth and children. Clarification 3: Students will explain how Nazi ideology supplanted prior beliefs. |
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| SS.912.HE.1.7: | Explain what is meant by “the Aryan Race” and why this terminology was used.Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Students will compare the meaning of Aryan to the Nazi meaning of Aryan Race. Clarification 2: Students will explain how the Nazis used propaganda, pseudoscience and the law to transform Judaism from a religion to a race. Clarification 3: Students will examine the manipulation of the international community to obtain the votes to host the 1936 Olympics and how the Berlin Games were utilized as propaganda for Nazi ideology to bolster the “superiority” of the Aryan race. Clarification 4: Students will explain how eugenics, scientific racism and Social Darwinism provided a foundation for Nazi racial beliefs. |
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This cluster includes the following access points.
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.1: | Recognize the Holocaust is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism, persecution, and murder on the European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.2: | Identify how the Nazi regime utilized and built on historical antisemitism including propaganda to create a common enemy of the Jews. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.3a: | Describe how the Treaty of Versailles was a causal factor leading the rise of the Nazis, and how the increasing spread of antisemitism was manipulated to the Nazis’ advantages. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.3b: | Recognize German culpability, reparations, and military downsizing as effects of the Treaty of Versailles. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.4: | Explain how the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and gained and maintained power in Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.5: | Recognize the Nazis utilized various forms of propaganda to indoctrinate the German population. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.6: | Identify how the Nazis used education and youth programs to indoctrinate young people into the Nazi ideology. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.7a: | Define “the Aryan Race” and why this terminology was used. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.7b: | Identify how the Nazis used propaganda, pseudoscience and the law to transform Judaism from a religion to a race. |
| SS.912.HE.1.AP.7c: | Explain how eugenics, scientific racism and Social Darwinism provided a foundation for Nazi racial beliefs. |
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