Explore the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism and the humanitarian refugee crisis it provoked during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Holocaust
Interpreting the Works of Samuel Bak
In this unit students experience how art can serve as a tool to understanding history by analyzing paintings by renowned artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak.
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Holocaust
Resistance during the Holocaust: An Exploration of the Jewish Partisans
Deepen students’ understanding of resistance with these lessons that bring together the firsthand accounts of former Jewish partisans and historical context on the partisan movement.
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Holocaust
Resistance
Legacy
Teaching Who Will Write Our History
Invite students to reflect on why it matters who tells our stories as they view a documentary film about the profound courage and resistance of the Oyneg Shabes in the Warsaw ghetto.
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Holocaust
The Armenian Genocide
Teaching the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide: For California Educators
Designed for California 10th grade world history courses, this unit guides students through a study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide that focuses on choices and human behavior.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
The Nanjing Atrocities
Teaching the Nanjing Atrocities
Lead students through a study of the Nanjing atrocities, beginning with an examination of imperialism in East Asia and ending with reflection on justice in the aftermath of mass violence.
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Genocide & Mass Violence,
The Nanjing Atrocities
December 13, 1937 Gallery
The beginning of the Nanjing Atrocities occurred with the Imperial Japanese Army’s occupation of the then capital city of China, Nanjing. These images capture the early days of the military occupation as well as offer a geographic orientation to the city confines.
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Genocide & Mass Violence,
The Nanjing Atrocities
Expressions of Imperialism Gallery
The images in this gallery explore Japan’s imperialist pursuits and economic expansion into China through different visual mediums.
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Holocaust
Lesson 13: The Power of Propaganda/Formative Task
From A Teacher's Guide to Holocaust and Human Behavior: Five-Week Unit Outline, students analyze the following propaganda images used by the Nazis.
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Genocide & Mass Violence,
The Nanjing Atrocities
Meiji Period in Japan Gallery
The Meiji Period in Japan (1868-1912) included many institutional reforms attempting both to modernize as well as maintain their sovereignty. These images document efforts of modernization most evident in the military, civil government, education, and cultural institutions.
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Holocaust,
Propaganda
Propaganda Posters
Have students analyze these examples of Nazi propaganda using the Crop It teaching strategy.
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The Armenian Genocide
The Changing Geography of the Ottoman Empire (1300–1920)
Maps showing the growth and contraction of territory controlled by the Ottoman Empire from 1300 through 1920.
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