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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Women in the Weimar Republic
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life in the Weimar Republic.
![Poster for Women's Day, March 8, 1914, demanding voting rights for women.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-02/Frauentag_1914_Heraus_mit_dem_Frauenwahlrecht.jpg?h=3818de31&itok=CNoaJGZQ)
The Bubbling Cauldron (UK)
This graphic organiser asks students to demonstrate their understanding of the conflicts and tensions in the Weimar Republic.
![A woman takes a basket of banknotes to buy cabbage at a market during the 1933 hyperinflation in Weimar Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image11_Medium_res.jpg?h=743bf4af&itok=TikJcpxP)
Isolating Homosexuals (UK)
Find out how Hitler strengthened enforcement of Paragraph 175, a law that made homosexuality a crime in Germany.
![Crackdown on Communists and Social Democrats: arrested in the SA-barracks on Friedrichstrasse, April, 1933](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_CrackdownOnCommunistsSocialDemocrats_%20FH223594.jpg?h=b4b77820&itok=qioklvs6)
"Restoring" Germany's Civil Service (UK)
Read a letter exchange between Adolf Hitler and President Paul von Hindenburg regarding a law that suspended Jews from positions of civil service in Nazi Germany.
![Germans look on as the Reichstag building burns on February 27, 1933.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_ReichstagFire_%20FH229429.jpg?h=40d6a7d7&itok=PBcAxqXk)
Targeting Jews (UK)
Learn about the Nazis' boycott of Jewish-owned businesses, including a firsthand account from a German Jew.
![SA members in 1933 stand in front of a barricaded Jewish shop, holding signs in both German and English urging the boycott of Jewish businesses.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_BoycottOfJewishBusinesses_FH229436.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=rrEd3_YP)
Letter to Parents and Guardians (UK)
Inform parents about what their students will be experiencing in the weeks to come during their study of Holocaust and Human Behaviour.
![Picture of teacher in classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2023-03/2019_UK_Classroom_FH2177573.jpeg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=Zs3pE68x)
Shaping Public Opinion (UK)
Read about the far-reaching efforts of Joseph Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda to generate enthusiasm for the Nazi party.
![On the night of January 30, 1933, SA men paraded with torches through Berlin to celebrate Hitler’s appointment as chancellor.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_TorchlightParadeCelebratingHitler_%20FH229432.jpg?h=cb9047e7&itok=WsHG6GG0)
Letter to Students (UK)
Read aloud this letter with your class before you embark on the unit Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour.
![Photography for Facing History and Ourselves web site and publications.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2017_FH256005.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=fQbWKce6)
Colonising Poland (UK)
Learn about the Nazis’ plan to rearrange the population of Poland, which resulted in the displacement of more than a million ethnic Poles and Jews.
![An exhibit at a Berlin school persuades Germans to help colonize the Warthegau area of Poland. The exhibit says “The land calls you!,” and the painting shows a settler’s car passing by a Polish border sign that has been knocked down.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_ExhibitGermanysColonizationPoland_%20FH229464.jpg?h=83b6248d&itok=71GQUBqx)
An Inspector Calls USSR Poster
This poster was created for the 1945 world premiere of An Inspector Calls at the Leningrad Comedy Theatre in Moscow.
![Simple illustration of a silhouetted woman against a cityscape that is comprised of soot from chimneys](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/AIC_USSR_Poster_Medium_res.jpg?h=1d36513c&itok=K2rjuqQJ)
The Holocaust - Bearing Witness
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Use these slides to introduce students to the enormity of the crimes committed during the Holocaust and look closely at stories of a few individuals who were targeted by Nazi brutality.
![Jewish women and children walk toward gas chambers.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/GasChambers_FH229475_teaser.jpeg?h=2cea9ccb&itok=kOPay9PM)