Monday, March 25, 2013

For extra credit, click on the picture to watch a documentary profiling the psychological analysis of Adolph Hitler in 1932.  Following your viewing, submit a 1 page, double-spaced paper that includes the following:  3 events from Hitler's life that influenced his decision making as Fuhrer and 2 predictions by the psychologists that ended up being true.



Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Russian Revolution/Totalitarianism
Study List

Russian Revolution - Causes of Russian Revolution          Rasputin
                                Czar Nicholas II role                       Bolsheviks
                                V.I. Lenin                                       Bloody Sunday
                                Russian Civil War                           Reds v. Whites
                                Results of Russian Revolution

Totalitarianism (Stalin) - Totalitarianism                           Nickname
                                     Great Purge                              5 Year Plan
                                     Collective Farms                       Communism
                                     Ways to ensure obedience        Gulags

Totalitarianism (Hitler) - NAZI                                       Fascism
                                     Nickname                                Anti-Semitism
                                     Lebensraum                             Ways to ensure obedience

Related Activities - Conditions for Germans following WWI
                             German attitudes towards Weimar Republic
                             Similarities between Hitler & Stalin (Fascism & Communism)
                             1932 Reichstag Election
                             Hitler & Stalin relationship
                             Hitler & Stalin family background

Feel free to continue watching the video, Hitler in Color, to gain a better perspective on Hitler's rise to power.






Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Plastic surgery has a humble beginning.  Harold Gillies probably never envisioned the multi-billion dollar industry it has become today.  Instead, check out the following video to see plastic surgery as Gillies intended and explore its roots from the trenches of WWI.






WARNING: The following video contains graphic images.


Friday, March 1, 2013

Things to Know for WWI

Terms/People/Concepts

Francis Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princep
Woodrow Wilson
Georges Clemenceau
Arthur Zimmermann
4 Causes of WWI
Propaganda
No man's land
Stalemate
Reparation
Armistice
New nations created after WWI
Schlieffen Plan
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Total war
Treaty of Versailles
14 Points
Zimmerman note
Trench warfare
Conditions in trench warfare
War guilt clause
Lusitania
Effects of Treaty of Versailles on Germany
Self-determination