Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.10a
The Standard
- SS24.WH.10
- Evaluate the economic, global, political, and social consequences of World War II.
Analyze the role of major Axis and Allied leaders during World War II, including both political and military leaders.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify major Axis and Allied leaders and tell political leaders from military commanders. They explain how a leader's choices affected the war.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student identifies Hitler as an Axis political leader and Eisenhower as an Allied military commander. They link Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union to the eastern front and Eisenhower's Normandy command to a new western front.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may put Stalin on the Axis side because the Soviet Union signed a pact with Germany before the war. They may think Eisenhower was president or assume every wartime leader commanded troops in battle.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Sort Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, and Eisenhower by side and role. Choose one political leader and one military commander, then name a wartime choice each made and its effect.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Match leader cards for Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, and Eisenhower to Soviet invasion, British resistance, Moscow defense, and Normandy invasion cards.
Ask: How did Hitler's order to invade the Soviet Union differ from Eisenhower's orders for D-Day in role and result?
Sort cards for Hitler, Rommel, Churchill, and Eisenhower into four bins: Axis political, Axis military, Allied political, and Allied military.
Compare a June 1944 D-Day newspaper headline with Eisenhower's invasion order to see how military plans became public news.
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