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.
Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Strand: Holocaust Education
Date Adopted or Revised: 05/24
Status: State Board Approved
Related Courses
Related Access Points
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| 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. |
