California State Standards
10.5.3. Explain how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war. 10.6.3. Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians.
10.7 Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I.
10.7 Students analyze the rise of totalitarian governments after World War I.
- Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control (e.g., the Gulag).
- Trace Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights (e.g., the Terror Famine in Ukraine).
- Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes (Fascist and Communist) in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting especially their common and dissimilar traits.
Common Core Standards
Reading
CCSS.RH. 10.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS.RH. 10.2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.RH. 10.9. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Writing
CCSS. WHST. 10.6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS. WHST. 10.9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
CCSS.RH. 10.1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
CCSS.RH. 10.2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
CCSS.RH. 10.9. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
Writing
CCSS. WHST. 10.6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
CCSS. WHST. 10.9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Essential Historical Questions
This unit seeks out these essential questions:
· What is a peaceful protest? What is a violent protest?
· What makes a strong leader?
· Why do people strive for a utopian society? Can it be achieved?
· How can killing innocent people for a greater cause be justifiable?
· What makes people kill others for their beliefs?
· How does political and economic instability cause a revolution?
· What is a peaceful protest? What is a violent protest?
· What makes a strong leader?
· Why do people strive for a utopian society? Can it be achieved?
· How can killing innocent people for a greater cause be justifiable?
· What makes people kill others for their beliefs?
· How does political and economic instability cause a revolution?
Big Ideas
· Russia Revolution had a major affect on the outcome of World War I due to Russia pulling out of the war.
· The economic and political instability led to reform movements towards totalitarian regimes.
· The weak leadership of the Czar led to the Communist uprising led by Lenin.
· The unintended consequence of strong government regulation within Communism created a strong central power Stalin took advantage of to create a totalitarian regime.
· In order to keep total control of their government Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler used suppressive tactics and aggression at the cost of human rights.
· The economic and political instability led to reform movements towards totalitarian regimes.
· The weak leadership of the Czar led to the Communist uprising led by Lenin.
· The unintended consequence of strong government regulation within Communism created a strong central power Stalin took advantage of to create a totalitarian regime.
· In order to keep total control of their government Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler used suppressive tactics and aggression at the cost of human rights.
Assessment Plan
· At the end of the unit, the students will take a multiple choice and written response test. The test will include multiple choice question and a couple written response answers.
· Students in the written response will connect all the major events of the Russian Revolution as a whole instead of one particular individual event.
· Students will be tested on the key terms they learned throughout the unit.
· Students in the written response will connect all the major events of the Russian Revolution as a whole instead of one particular individual event.
· Students will be tested on the key terms they learned throughout the unit.