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Diagnostic Assessment: Rubric

 

Directions: Please check the statements which apply to you.

 

Unit 24: Essential Understandings

  • Students will understand why the League of Nations failed to provide a lasting peace.
  • Students will understand how the occupation of the Ruhr Valley caused one of the worst cases of inflation in modern history.
  • Students will understand how the Great Depression spread from the United States to Europe.
  • Students will understand why fascism appealed to many Europeans in the 1920s.
  • Students will understand the importance of propaganda in the 20th century.
  • Students will understand the key elements of political transition in the USSR between Lenin and Stalin.
  • Students will understand the role of the Spanish Civil War in the rise of fascism.
  • Students will understand the significance of the Enabling Act.
  • Students will understand the key characteristics of the Nazi State in 1933-1939.
  • Students will understand the role of terror in governing totalitarian states.
  • Students will understand the rationale behind and the mechanism of Nazi Anti-Semitic policies.
  • Students will understand the influence of totalitarianism on leisure and daily lives.
  • Students will understand the revolutionary developments in art, literature, and science.

 

Unit 24: Students' Knowledge

  • Students will know who John Keynes, FDR, Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, and Stalin were and what ideas they introduced.
  • Students will know what the New Deal, the Dawes Plan, totalitarianism, fascism, Nazism, anti-Semitism, Kristallnacht.
  • Students will know what role was played by technology in the rise of dictatorial regimes.
  • Students know main differences between totalitarian and authoritarian states.
  • Students will know how and why Adolf Hitler came to power.
  • Students will know why the Enabling Act became the crowning step of Hitler's "legal seizure" of power.
  • Students will know the basic justifications of Nazi anti-Semitism.
  • Students will know why terror and propaganda were key aspects of totalitarian rule.
  • Students will know why most German people supported the Nazi party in the 1930s.
  • Students will know why Kristallnacht signified a new phase in Nazi policies.
  • Students will know the effects of new technology on culture.
  • Students will know how artists responded to the challenges of the 20th century.
  • Students will know how the new scientific development led to cultural uncertainty.

 

Unit 24: Students' Skills

  • Students will be able to evaluate the historical impact of Keynes, FDR, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and Stalin.
  • Students will be able to describe totalitarianism, fascism, Nazism, anti-Semitism, Kristallnacht.
  • Students will be able to explain the policies of the New Deal and the Dawes Plan and the uncertainty principle of science.
  • Students will be able to compare and contrast Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, and Stalin's Soviet Union. 
  • Students will examine political development of Germany after the Great Depression.
  • Students will assess the importance of the Enabling Act on German politics.
  •  Students will critique the idea of Aryan supremacy.
  • Students will watch an excerpt of The Fatal Attraction of Adolph Hitler and examine its themes.
  • Students will evaluate Hitler's influence on Germany's economy.
  • Students will speculate why Nazi cruelty towards Jewish people was tolerated by Germans.
  • Students will explain why modern totalitarian states would not have happened without radio, printed press, and cinematography.
  • Students will explore the art of Dali and Picasso.

 

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