Alabama Social Studies SS24.WH.9c
The Standard
- SS24.WH.9
- Summarize the conditions of the global Great Depression and explain how they led to the rise of totalitarian states and the weakening of democratic nations.
Analyze the rise of militarism in Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s and explain how it led to war.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify how leaders in Germany, Italy, and Japan built up their armed forces and used them in the 1930s. They explain how invasions and weak responses from other countries allowed fighting to spread.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can place Japan's takeover of Manchuria, Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, and Germany's move into the Rhineland on a timeline. They can explain how each country used force to pursue its goals and connect those actions to later wars.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the three countries planned every attack together, though Japan took Manchuria before they formed an alliance. They may also think war began everywhere in 1939, overlooking earlier fighting in Asia and Africa.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask students to name one military action by each country in the 1930s. Have them choose one action and explain how it led to fighting or made a wider war more likely.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups a blank 1930s world map and cards for Manchuria, Ethiopia, and the Rhineland; have them place and date each card.
Ask: Why might other countries' failure to stop the invasion of Ethiopia have encouraged further attacks? Require one specific example.
Run a card sort matching five events to Germany, Italy, or Japan, then have students put the cards in date order.
Project a 1935 newspaper headline about Italy's invasion of Ethiopia; have students write two sentences explaining why readers might fear more fighting.
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