Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.6.6.B
The Standard
- MWH.C.6
- Evaluate the global transformation created by the World Wars.
- MWH.C.6.6
- Examine the background, causes, series of events, and effects of the Shoah (Holocaust), the state-sponsored systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
Describe the National Socialist Party’s (Nazi) seizure of unchecked power, its dehumanization of the Jews and other victims (e.g., people with physical disabilities and homosexuals), and the mass genocide of Jews and the Roma.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.C.6.6
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students trace how Hitler’s appointment, emergency decrees, and the Enabling Act let Nazis shut down opposition. They explain how propaganda and laws dehumanized Jews, Roma, people with disabilities, and gay men. They describe how Nazis murdered Jews and Roma through mass shootings and killing centers.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can put Hitler’s appointment, the Reichstag Fire Decree, and the Enabling Act in order and explain what each changed. They can use an example of propaganda or law to explain dehumanization. They can distinguish persecution from genocide and name ways Nazis murdered Jews and Roma.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Hitler won unchecked power in one election, rather than being appointed chancellor and then removing checks on his power. They may think all victims were killed in camps, overlooking mass shootings and the different ways groups were targeted.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: How did the Enabling Act remove a check on Nazi power? Name one way Nazis dehumanized targeted people and one method they used to murder Jews or Roma.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs dated cards for Hitler’s appointment, the Reichstag Fire Decree, and the Enabling Act; have them build a timeline and label each change.
Ask: How did the Nuremberg Laws turn antisemitism into law? Students cite one restriction from a printed excerpt and explain its effect.
Give pairs a four-item retrieval quiz matching the Reichstag Fire Decree, Enabling Act, Nuremberg Laws, and killing centers to their effects.
Have students find Congress’s lawmaking power in a printed U.S. Constitution and compare that safeguard with Germany after the Enabling Act.
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