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Number: SS.912.HE.2
Title: Explain the significant events, public policies and experiences of the Holocaust.
Type:
Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Holocaust Education
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SS.912.HE.2.AP.1
Describe how the life of Jews deteriorated under the Third Reich and the Nuremberg Laws in Germany and its annexed territories (e.g., the Rhineland, Sudetenland, Austria) from 1933 to 1938.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.2
Identify the causes and effects of Kristallnacht and how it became a watershed event in the transition from targeted persecution and anti-Jewish policy to open, public violence against Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.3
Identify Hitler’s motivations for the annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland, and the invasion of Poland.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.4
Describe why immigration was difficult for Jewish people (e.g., MS St. Louis, the Evian Conference, immigration quota systems) from 1933 to 1939.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.5
Identify the effect Nazi policies had on other groups targeted by the government of Nazi Germany including, but not limited to, ethnic and religious groups, the individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities and homosexuals.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.6
Identify the various armed and unarmed resistance efforts in Europe from 1933 to 1945.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.7
Recognize the role that individuals played in the implementation of Nazi policies against Jewish people and other targeted groups, as well as the role of rescuers in opposing the Nazis and their policies.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.8
Describe corporate complicity as including, but not limited to, supporting methods of identification and record keeping, continuing trade relationships, financial resources, the use of slave labor, production for the war effort and moral and ethical corporate decisions (1930–1945).
SS.912.HE.2.AP.9
Identify how killing squads, including the Einsatzgruppen, conducted mass shooting operations in Eastern Europe with the assistance of the Schutzstaffel (SS), police units, the army and local collaborators.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.10
Recognize the origins and purpose of ghettos in Europe.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.11
Describe life in the various ghettos.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.12
Define “partisan” and explain the role partisans played in World War II.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.13
Describe the origins, purpose and conditions associated with various types of camps.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.14
Recognize death marches as the forcible movement of prisoners by Nazis with the dual purpose of removing evidence and murdering as many people as possible (toward the end of World War II and the Holocaust) from Eastern Europe to Germany proper.
SS.912.HE.2.AP.15
Explain the experience of Holocaust survivors following World War II.
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