MWH Unit 6: Genocide | Facing History & Ourselves

MWH Unit 6: Genocide

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Last Modified March 12, 2023
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Video

Hitler's Ideology: Race, Land, and Conquest

Scholar Doris Bergen discusses the ideologies of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Video

Antisemitism from the Enlightenment to World War I

Scholars describe the persistence of antisemitism in Europe from the Enlightenment through World War I and explain how new social, political, and pseudo-scientific justifications were created to perpetuate old prejudices.

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At Home Learning - Block 4 Thurs/Fri Blocks 1 and 7 next week
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Dismantling Democracy

Students examine the steps the Nazis took to replace democracy with dictatorship and draw conclusions about the values and institutions that make democracy possible.

Germans look on as the Reichstag building burns on February 27, 1933.
Video

The Armenian Genocide

During World War I, the Ottoman Turks carried out one of the largest genocides in the world's history. This film provides a historical overview of the Armenian Genocide and looks at its denial by Turkey that continues to this day.