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Using Images to Understand the Interwar Period

World History Teachers Blog

Among the 45 images are Hitler and Mussolini shaking hands in Germany, Japanese aircraft carrying out air raids over China, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek sitting with the chairman of the Yunan provincial government, and four Italian soldiers taking aim in Ethiopia in 1935.

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The Global Nature of World War I: China & Africa in the War

World History Teachers Blog

The urgent need for manpower in the war led the French to begin negotiations with the Chinese government for Chinese laborers as this essay from the Guardian notes. The thread includes interesting links and a trailer for a movie from Yellow Earth Productions called "Forgotten" about China during the war.

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Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum

A Principal's Reflections

survival depends upon racial purity, survival depends upon seizure of territory or survival depends on nullifying or eliminating anti-social groups who undermine society and government) Utilizing the archives of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum through online access of the collections, students will cite in MLA format their sources.

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The Root of Haiti's Misery From The New York Times

World History Teachers Blog

The French forced the Haitian government to accept a loan out of which they could pay the reparations. The essay is an ideal assignment for world history students studying the unit on revolutions in the 1700 and 1800s. How was Haiti able to pay reparations?

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To Make Assignments More Meaningful, I’m Giving Students a More Authentic Audience

ED Surge

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. In prior years, this unit culminated with an essay in which students responded to the essential question.

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Ten Historians: 10 Different Interpretations on Who Started WWI

World History Teachers Blog

And a number of historians like John Rohl - emeritus professor of history, University of Sussexe, put the blame on Austria Hungary and Germany. He argues that "the war broke out as the result of a conspiracy between the governments of imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary to bring about war."

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. History class. Victoria was in my U.S.