Idaho Social Studies 9-12.US2.16
The Standard
Analyze American participation in the international response to the Holocaust.
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies · World War II 1939-1945
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace U.S. decisions about Jewish refugees and rescue during World War II. They use dated evidence to explain what the U.S. did, what it did not do, and how its actions fit with those of other countries.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain that the U.S. attended the Evian Conference but kept its immigration quotas, then created the War Refugee Board in 1944. They can distinguish refugee admission, rescue, and camp liberation, and support a claim about the limits of each.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think the U.S. admitted no Jewish refugees or learned of mass killings only when troops reached the camps. Others mistake the liberation of camps in 1945 for an earlier effort to stop the killings.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did the U.S. role change between the 1938 Evian Conference and the 1944 War Refugee Board? Name one action at each point and one limit of the response.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups dated cards for Evian, U.S. visa quotas, the War Refugee Board, and Buchenwald liberation to sort as admission, rescue, or liberation.
Ask students to write two sentences comparing U.S. refugee policy at Evian with its 1944 rescue work, using one dated fact for each.
Play claim check: teams use source cards to test three claims about refugee quotas, the War Refugee Board, and Buchenwald.
Show a current UNHCR resettlement chart and a wartime U.S. quota chart; ask students how admission rules affect who can enter.
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Related Standards
- 9-12.GOV.58
Identify and evaluate the role of the United States in international organizations, agreements, treaties, and humanitarian relief efforts.
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- 6-9.WH.5.4
Analyze the causes, events, and consequences of the Holocaust while exploring the impacts of discrimination and prejudice.
- 9-12.US2.20
Analyze the impact of events and policies on the Homefront during World War Two.
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