1. Failure of Diplomacy: 1935-1939 From Appeasement to War
History of the Modern World
Failure of Diplomacy:
From Appeasement to War
Mrs. McArthur
Walsingham Academy
Room 111
1. Flapper-symbol of rebellious Jazz Age youth who rejected old waves in favor of new exciting freedoms.
Prohibition-ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
Speakeasies-illegal bars
Checkpoint, pp. 885-Some people embraced rebelliousness and experimentation, symbolized by the new sound of jazz. Meanwhile, others supported the Prohibition amendment, and fundamentalists supported traditional Christian ideas.
2. Infographic: Popular Culture in the Jazz Age-She embodies a rejection of traditional values and a new way of doing things. More people had access to electricity, telephones, radios, and the movies. They were also able to travel more because of faster and more affordable cars.
3. Harlem Renaissance-African-American cultural awakening
The New Literature: Checkpoint, pp. 887-by writing about the horrors of modern warfare and moral emptiness, and by experimenting with new styles of writing.
4. Biography-pursuing a career in science and winning Nobel prizes were not what a woman was expected to do.
New Scientific Theories: Checkpoint, pp. 888-Atomic research changed the Newtonian view of science and led to the development of atomic weapons, the discovery of penicillin paved the way for antibiotics, and Freud’s ideas revolutionized psychology.
5. Modern Art and Architecture: Checkpoint, pp. 889-Artists rejected traditional representations and began to look for new and modern ways of expression.
Analyzing Art-It uses lines, shapes and colors to portray a feeling of movement.
6. Pablo Picasso, pp 890-Mother and Child is a realistic representation of a scene, while Still Life With Violin is a cubist representation broken into abstract angles and shapes, rendering the objects almost unrecognizable. Picasso’s style ranged from realistic to abstract and cubist and back to representational. He also ventured into different media like sculpture.

2. World War II and Its Aftermath
Section 1: From Appeasement to War, pp
Witness History Audio: The Desperate Peace
Aggression Goes Unchecked
When the aggressive actions of dictators in Japan, Germany, and Italy went virtually unchallenged, these regimes grew bolder. The Western policy of appeasement and widespread pacifism fed the ambitions of the three countries, which formed a pact not to interfere in each other’s expansion.
Notes: Listen to the Witness History audio. Then read aloud the main idea for each subheading in this section and show the related visuals.
After listening to the Witness History audio, ask, “What is the main idea of Chamberlain’s speech?” (He believes he has achieved and agreement that means lasting peace with Germany.) Ask students to predict how long the peace will last.
When showing Color Transparency 174, use the lesson suggested in the transparency book to guide a discussion.
Spain Collapses into Civil War
When conservatives led by Francisco Franco revolted against the new reformist government in Spain, a civil war broke out that drew help from Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union. Franco’s rebels won, and he set up a fascist dictatorship.

3. Section 1: From Appeasement to War
German Aggression Continues
Hitler annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland in his quest to bring all German-speaking people in to the Third Reich. Britain and France were not willing to go to war over either move.
Europe Plunges Toward War
When Germany seized the rest of Czechoslovakia, Britain and France decided they would move to stop Hitler if he attacked Poland. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin made a pact with Hitler that they would not interfere with each other in annexing parts of Eastern Europe. Two days after German forces invaded Poland, on September 3, 1939, World War II began.
Notes: Listen to the Witness History audio. Then read aloud the main idea for each subheading in this section and show the related visuals.
After listening to the Witness History audio, ask, “What is the main idea of Chamberlain’s speech?” (He believes he has achieved and agreement that means lasting peace with Germany.) Ask students to predict how long the peace will last.
When showing Color Transparency 174, use the lesson suggested in the transparency book to guide a discussion.
Color Transparency 174: Wonder How Long the Honeymoon Will Last?

4. World War II and Its Aftermath: Section 1
Color Transparency 174: Wonder How Long the Honeymoon Will Last?

5. World War II and Its Aftermath: Section 1
Progress Monitoring Transparency

6. Assignments 1-2 Test Preparation-Chp 28 Use resources on pp. 918-920
Prepare practice essay ed
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7. Assignment 3
Read text, pp , identifying 8 new terms and answering 4 Checkpoint questions.
Take Section Auto-test
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8. Assignment 4
Answer captions on pp. 925 and 929 questions. Study PP slides.
Complete Map Skills Activity, pp.928 answering questions.
Complete Note Taking Activity: Sequence of German Aggression, pp. 927
Vocabulary:
CHEKA: A secret police force that used terror to root out counter-revolutionaries. By 1919 forced labor camps also created.
Commissars: communist party officials assigned to army and other institutions to teach party principles and ensure loyalty.
Checkpoints:
pp. 844: The Reds used foreign intervention as a rallying point, supplied their troops by taking crops from peasants, trained the Red Army using terror tactics, controlled the center of Russia.
pp. 845: In the government Lenin set up, the Communist party, not the people, controlled the government. The economy under the NEP allowed some capitalist ventures.

9. Assignment 5
Read text, pp , identifying 5 new terms and answering 2 Checkpoint questions.
2 Infographics: Surviving the Blitz and The Holocaust,, answering Thinking Critically questions.
Notes: Book Club ’s House Lecture: 3-4:00 PM Tues. 3/2
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