SOTW 4: 27B - Germany's invasions

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

• Podcast:  Flight from invading Germans (Poland, Sept 1939)  written transcript included
• Podcast: Life after the German invasion of Poland  written transcript included
• Historical Film Footage of the invasion of Poland

Secondary Sources:

• World War II Timeline
• Polish Refugees
• WWII Encylopedia Britannica - interactive

Video Enrichment:
 Blitzkrieg unleashed:  2 minutes  (depicts war)
PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Online Lectures (full series): 

• World War II - An Open Harvard Course, Historical Study B-54 with professor with Charles S. Maier, PhD, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University

SOTW 4: 27A - Spanish Civil War

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link 

Primary Sources:

• George Orwell on the state of Anarchy in Barcelona, 1936
• Hemmingway's Dispatches from Spain NY Times Archives
• Pablo Picasso's Guernica

Secondary Sources:

• Franco and the Spanish Civil War

Video Enrichment:
Anarchists in the 1936 Spanish Civil War (8 minutes)

• American involvement in the Spanish Civil War (10 mins)

SOTW 4: 26B - Hitler's Rise to Power

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

• Mein Kampf - unabridged, translated into English by James Murphy in 1939, extensive translators introduction

Secondary Sources:

• Summary and questions for thought

Video Enrichment:

• Video exploring Hitler's path from mediocre student and failed artist to totalitarian dictator.  -45 minutes

• Part 2 -45 minutes 

SOTW 4: 26A - Black Tuesday

PARENTAL  DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of  strife and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page: Link

Primary Sources:

• A series of Financial Headlines spanning 1929
• FDR's Fireside Chat address - scroll to the bottom

Secondary Sources:

• A readable summary of the cause of The Market Crash

Video Enrichment:

• 30 second preview of The Crash of 1929 -American Experience
• PBS clip about the Crash of 1929 - 10 mins:

• Student presentation summary of the crash: (3 min)

6A - The Triple Alliance

 Narration/Outline/Notebook Page:   Link

Primary Sources:

• The New Vulgate  (none available, read why)

Secondary Sources:

• The War that Changed South America Forever

Board Game:  Strategy Game:  War of the Triple Alliance: Paraguay - 1865-1870
Video Game:  Age of Empires:  Triple Alliance Mod  for Age of Empires III

5B Abraham Lincoln is Shot!

PARENTAL DISCRETION ALWAYS ADVISED FOR VIDEO VIEWING, this part of history depicts a lot of war and violence.

Narration/Outline/Notebook Page:  Link

Primary Sources:

• Newspaper Article Reporting Lincoln's Assassination
• Newspaper Article Reporting on Lincoln's final hours.
• Newspaper Article Reporting on the Death and Funeral of Lincoln
• Photo depicting the execution by hanging of those charged in the death of Lincoln
• 13th Amendment abolishing slavery.

Secondary Sources:

• Interactive Website on Lincoln's Office

Video Enrichment: (82 minutes)

Edu-tainment Nonsense:  (2 minutes)  Disney's Hall of Presidents- Lincoln.

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Blank Timeline

I've put together a timeline document which can be used for tracking events during modern history times.

I recommend printing it on card stock, or heavy paper so you can print double page spreads of 100 years each, back to back like a booklet. 

First, print pages 1, 2 and 3.  Then feed page 2 back in to print page 4 on its back and feed page 3 back in to print page 5 on it's back.  Finally print page 6.

(You can do this in 2 steps:  Printing pages 1,2,3 and then replacing 2 and 3 in your page feeder and printing 4,5 and 6.)

For events that span decades, color in a bar representing the time and lable it directly on the colored bar.  For events that are brief mark an asterisk or other symbol on the timeline and note the details in the lined section at the bottom.  You can color code the bars and events by region.  This chart has enough space to place 30 concurrent events.