Nationalism and the Aftermath of World War I
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Language
English — USSubject
- History
- Social Studies
Grade
9–12Duration
Two 50-min class periods- Democracy & Civic Engagement
Overview
About This Lesson
In this lesson, students will begin to examine how the facets of human behavior they have learned about in previous lessons—including stereotypes, prejudice, and antisemitism—influenced people and events in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. They will start with a brief review of World War I and an examination of the relationship between war and national pride. Then they will consider how Germany’s surrender in 1919 and the terms imposed on the nation by the Allied powers and the Treaty of Versailles shocked Germans, who felt alienated, angered, and humiliated by the conditions of the treaty, and how this contributed to conditions that would provide fertile ground for the rise of the Nazi Party in the decade that followed.
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