Total War and Its Ideologies, 1914-1945: Social Studies Unit 6, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Total War and Its Ideologies, 1914-1945 is Unit 6 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 2) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 12 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 111 pages.

• The Triple Alliance/Triple Entente treaty-obligation chain
• Necessary vs. contributing causes of WWI’s outbreak
• Ranked causal argument for WWI’s outbreak
• Persuasive techniques in WWI/WWII propaganda
• Transfer of propaganda technique across historical and contemporary contexts
• Bureaucratic administration of the Holocaust
• The limits of bureaucratic explanation for the Holocaust
• Continuity and change in total-war home-front mobilization, 1914-1945
• Permanence of wartime government mobilization powers
• The necessary-vs-contributing causal-ranking method applied beyond WWI
• Unit-specific vocabulary: total war, propaganda, totalitarianism, fascism, genocide, bureaucracy
• Causal argument essay on the origins of WWI

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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