UNIT 2 INTERWAR PERIOD 1919-1933

Document Gallery (V4)

Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt transformed their nations during the Interwar Period 1919-1939.

Using primary sources, create a document gallery that represents the political, economic and social policies, developments and events in the USSR under Stalin, Italy under Mussolini, Germany under Hitler or the U.S. under Roosevelt during the Interwar Period.

The objective of the document gallery is to tell a story about how these leaders impacted their nations through a series of documents.

Document Gallery

A document gallery is a collection of primary source documents - photographs, paintings, posters, political cartoons, artwork, letters, newspaper articles, diary entry, journal, memo, telegram, government report, advertisement, etc. that represents a topic. Use PowerPoint for the document gallery.

Leaders

Select one leader for the document gallery - Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt.

Political, Economic and Social Policies, Developments, Events

The document gallery must represent the political, economic, and social policies, developments and events listed in the chart included in these instructions on pages 2-5.

Primary Sources: Written and Visual Documents

Primary Source Documents

Using primary sources, provide written and visual documents that effectively represent each of the political, economic, social policies, developments and events identified in the chart. The documents must represent some aspect related to or associated with the policies, developments and events.

Written documents include letters, newspaper articles, a diary entry, journal, memo, telegram, government report, ads, etc. Visual documents include photographs, paintings, posters, political cartoons, artwork, etc.

Captions

Each document must include a caption that identifies and describes the document and how it is related to or associated with the policy, development, and event. You can copy and paste it from the source.

Source/URL

Identify the source of the documents by providing the URL (not jpeg) or hyperlink for each document and indicate it below the caption of each document.

Organization

Organize the document gallery similar to the chart on pages 4-7 and arrange the political, economic, and social policies, developments and events in the same order as indicated in the chart.

Evaluation

Refer to the Marking Criteria for the Document Gallery

USSR - Stalin 1928-1939

The documents must reflect and represent the nature of the policy, development or event.

Use a variety of documents to represent the policy, development, or event.

The number in brackets represents the required number of documents for the policy, development, or event.

Policies, Developments, Events

Political

Stalin’ Power and Authority

Economic

Modernization

Social

Totalitarian

Great Purges 1934-1939 purge party members/rivals

(3)

show trials (3)

purge military officers (3)

OGPU/NKVD (3) fear and terror

Collectivization Kolkhoz (3)

collective farms

Kulaks (3) targeted purged peasants

Ukraine Famine (3) forced collectivization

Industrialization Five-Year Plans (3)

heavy industry

gulag (3) slave labour

Cult of Personality (3) Stalin represents USSR leadership and authority

Youth Organizations (3) Komsomol Young Pioneers

Religion, Education, Healthcare, Housing, Russification (3) select any three and provide

one document each

Inquiry Question: Were Stalin’s purges an effective strategy to maintain power or a sign of paranoia?

Inquiry Question: Was Stalin’s economic policy of collectivization and industrialization successful in modernizing the USSR?

Inquiry Question: Was Stalin’s personality cult effective at promoting Stalin’s leadership?

Refer to the following sources for information about the policies, developments, and events:

Notes p.4-10 Global Forces Chapter 5 p.77-84 Twentieth Century History Chapter 27 p.129-138 Spartacus Educational The History Learning Site

The following are recommended web sites to obtain documents:

Soviet Archive Exhibit

Best of History Web Sites - Stalin

Soviet History

Spartacus Educational

Italy - Mussolini 1922-1939

The documents must reflect and represent the nature of the policy, development or event.

Use a variety of documents to represent the policy, development, or event.

The number in brackets represents the required number of documents for the policy, development, or event.

Policies, Developments, Events

Political

Consolidation of Power/Dictatorship

Economic

Autarky/Economic self-sufficiency

Social

Totalitarian

Acerbo Law June 1923 (3) electoral law

Matteotti murder June 10 1924 (3) political crisis for Mussolini

OVRA 1927 (3) fear and terror

Grand Council of Fascism 1928 (3) Fascist single party state

Lateran Accords February 1929 (3) agreement with Church

Battle for Wheat (3) policy of autarky/economic

self-sufficiency

Battle for Land (3) policy of autarky/economic

self-sufficiency

Corporate System (3) economic needs of the state

Youth Organizations (3) Balilla/Avanguardisti (boys) Piccole Italiane/

Giovani Italiane (girls)

Education (3) indoctrination of Fascists ideas

Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (ONP) /National Leisure System and Opera Nazionale della Maternita e dell'Infanzia /National Organization of Maternity and Infancy (ONMI) (3) promoting fitness battle for births

Inquiry Question: Which political development was the most significant for Mussolini’s dictatorship?

Inquiry Question: Was Mussolini’s economic policy successful?

Inquiry Question: Were the Fascist effective at promoting Fascists ideas on the youth?

Refer to the following sources for information about the policies, developments, and events:

Notes p.19-21 Article: Britannica – The End of Constitutional Rule Article: What is Fascism? p.16-19 Twentieth Century History Chapter 12 p.53 Encyclopedia Britannica New World Encyclopedia

The following are recommended web sites to obtain documents:

Alamy

University of Wisconsin-Madison

All that is interesting

Germany - Hitler 1933-1939

The documents must reflect and represent the nature of the policy, development or event. Use a variety of documents to represent the policy, development, or event. The number in brackets represents the required number of documents for the policy, development, or

event.

Policies, Developments, Events

Political

Consolidation of Power/Dictatorship

Economic

Great Depression/Autarky

Social

Totalitarian/Antisemitism

Reichstag Fire Feb 27 1933 (3) Reichstag Fire Decree emergency powers to suspend

rights

Enabling Act March 23 1933 (3) absolute power end of democracy

Gestapo April 26 1933 (3) fear and terror detention camps

Night of the Long Knives June 30 1934 (3) purge Nazi party

Hindenburg’s DeathAugust 19 1934 (3) Hitler Chancellor and

President Fuhrer

Public Works and Reich Labour Service (RAD) (3) employment and public works

Rearmament (3) conscription air force

German Labour Front (DAF) (3) May 2 1933 end unions/workers’ rights Strength through Joy (KDF)

Youth Organizations (3) indoctrination Hitler Youth (boys) BDM (girls)

Kristallnacht Nov 9-12 1938 (3) antisemitism attack Jewish businesses and

synagogues

Nuremburg Laws 1935-1939 (3) antisemitic race laws

Inquiry Question: Which political development was the most significant for Hitler’s consolidation of power?

Inquiry Question: Was Hitler’s economic policy successful?

Inquiry Question: Were the Nazis effective at the Nazification of Germany?

Refer to the following sources for information about the policies, developments, and events:

Notes p.31-34 The World This Century - Chapter 7 The Nationalist State p.93-103 Global Forces Chapter 3 p.47 & Chapter 4 p.55-58 Twentieth Century History Chapter 25 p.110-118 Alpha History – From Weimar Democracy to Nazi Dictatorship Alpha History – Nazi Germany

The following are recommended web sites to obtain documents:

Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Best of History Web Sites – Hitler

German History in Documents and Images

Alpha History – Nazi GermanyUnited States - Roosevelt 1933-1939

The documents must reflect and represent the nature of the policy, development or event.

Use a variety of documents to represent the policy, development, or event.

The number in brackets represents the required number of documents for the policy, development, or event.

Policies, Developments, Events

Political

New Deal

Economic

Great Depression: Relief, Recovery, Reform

Social

Reforms

Supreme Court 1935 (3) NRA ruled unconstitutional

1937 Reform Supreme Court (3) Roosevelt’s proposed law to

appoint five new judges defeated -“court packing”

Opposition to New Deal (3) Republican Party, businesses,

banks

First New Deal Emergency Banking Act (3) AAA (3) NRA (3) FERA (3) PWA (3) TVA (3)

Second New Deal NLRA/Wagner Act (3) WPA (3)

Fireside Chats (3) propaganda

Social Security Act (3) pensions, unemployment

insurance

Beer Act/Twenty-First Amendment and National Youth Administration (3) end of prohibition work and education for youth

Inquiry Question: Was Roosevelt’s attempt to reform the Supreme Court justified?

Inquiry Question: Was Roosevelt’s New Deal effective and successful in dealing with the Depression?

Inquiry Question: Was Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” with the nation effective?

Refer to the following sources for information about the policies, developments, and events:

Notes p.39-44 Global Forces Chapter 5 p.89 Twentieth Century History Chapter 26 p.119-127 History.com Spartacus Educational History on the Net – American – Great Depression – Roosevelt Years -https://www.historyonthenet.com/

The following are recommended web sites to obtain documents:

FDR Presidential Library

History on the Net - https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/1930-1939/2-fdr/index.html

Library of Congress

History.com – New Deal

Marking Criteria for the Document Gallery

A

100%

or

93%

the document gallery demonstrates an excellent understanding of the topic the documents effectively represent the political, economic, social policies,

developments and events the selection, quality and variety of documents is effective the captions are effective and accurate the questions are effectively addressed it is effectively organized

B

85%

or

79%

the document gallery demonstrates a very good understanding of the topic the documents effectively represent the political, economic, social policies,

developments and events with one or two exceptions quality and variety of documents is effective with one or two exceptions the captions are generally effective and accurate the questions are competently addressed it is effectively organized

C+

72%

document gallery demonstrates a good understanding of the topic most of the documents effectively represent the political, economic, socials

policies, developments and events the quality and variety of documents is effective with some exceptions the captions are mostly accurate but inconsistent some questions are addressed effectively it is effectively organized

C

66%

the document gallery demonstrates a satisfactory understanding of the topic some of the documents effectively represent the political, economic, social

policies, developments and events but others do not the quality of the documents is adequate but contains little variety the captions are adequate but not thorough the questions are not addressed with consistent quality it is adequately organized

C-

59%

document gallery demonstrates a limited understanding of the topic some documents do not effectively represent the political, economic, social

policies, developments and events the quality of the documents is questionable, the variety is minimal and the

number of documents is insufficient the captions are not effective or too minimal the questions are not effectively addressed or limited in quality it is not effectively organized

F49%

the document gallery demonstrates an inadequate understanding of the and does not meet the minimum requirements

I the document gallery cannot be assessed as it is incomplete

Example

EconomicCollectivization – Kolkhoz