Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.6.4.B
The Standard
- MWH.C.6
- Evaluate the global transformation created by the World Wars.
- MWH.C.6.4
- Analyze the economic, social, and political conditions that resulted in World War II.
Explain how violations of the Treaty of Versailles and failure of the League of Nations, including unrealistic reparations demands and failed efforts at international disarmament, fueled a second global conflict.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.C.6.4
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how heavy reparations fueled resentment in Germany and how German rearmament broke the peace settlement. They trace how failed disarmament talks and weak League responses to aggression made another war more likely.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why Germany's reoccupation of the Rhineland mattered and why the League's response to Italy's invasion of Ethiopia fell short. They connect those events to reparations and failed disarmament without treating any one factor as the sole cause of war.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may say reparations alone caused the war or that the League had an army it chose not to use. They may also confuse failed international disarmament talks with Germany's decision to rearm.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: How did one German treaty violation and one League failure make war more likely? Include reparations or failed disarmament in your answer.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs event cards for reparations, disarmament talks, German rearmament, Manchuria, and Ethiopia; have them build an annotated cause-and-effect timeline.
After reading a brief account of League sanctions on Italy, students write why the sanctions failed to stop the invasion of Ethiopia.
Play a cause-and-effect match: students pair event cards with consequence cards, then defend one match about reparations or disarmament.
Print a UN sanctions committee fact sheet; students circle enforcement measures and compare them with the League's limited sanctions on Italy.
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