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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.
Education in the Weimar Republic
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life in the Weimar Republic.
![A crowd of women standing in line at a polling station in the Weimar Republic in 1919, the first year women were allowed to vote.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image12_Medium_res.jpg?h=7627bb82&itok=YljeUuli)
Hyperinflation and the Great Depression
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life 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)
What did the Nazis Believe?
Check-in on students' comprehension of the Nazi Party Platform with these true/false questions.
![The Parade of the Political Administrators in Nuremberg, Germany.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1933_GermanPartyDay_%20FH229691.jpg?h=193b5c49&itok=QZdPclXH)
1932 Election Results
Share this data on the elections in Weimar Germany to prompt discussion about politics in Weimar and the rise of the Nazi party.
![Adolf Hitler has his hand placed on a young girl in a white dress as he speaks with her](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch04_Image17_Medium_res.jpg?h=8f85ebe8&itok=4T71wftn)
Photo Analysis of Prewar Jewish Life
Complete a Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World activity using photographs of Jewish life in Europe before World War II.
![Family portrait with children, parents, and grandparents. Taken circa 1930-1940.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Group_portrait_of_a_prewar_Jewish_family_FH260052.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=WLbJ7yIT)
Democracy to Dictatorship Reading Analysis
Use this handout in a Stations activity that asks students to explore several aspects of life in the Weimar Republic.
![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)
Station 1: Polling Data / Roosevelt's Response
Students explore America's response to Kristallnacht by examining an opinion poll and considering the president's response.
![Black and white photo of mass demonstration.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/AP_3811161102_Medium_res.jpg?h=00d1719e&itok=Ou9eNaS0)
Station 2: Responses to Kristallnacht
Students explore America's response to Kristallnacht by analyzing a photo and newspaper headlines.
![Black and white photo of mass demonstration.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/AP_3811161102_Medium_res.jpg?h=00d1719e&itok=Ou9eNaS0)
Station 3: The Quota System
Students analyze infographics depicting America's quota system during the refugee crisis provoked by Nazi persecution.
![Black and white photo of mass demonstration.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/AP_3811161102_Medium_res.jpg?h=00d1719e&itok=Ou9eNaS0)
Essential Quote Worksheet
Students use this handout to complete a collaborative activity about the Wagner-Rogers debate.
![A group of children in 1930s era clothing stare and point at the Statue of Liberty.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/709729_Medium_res.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=xQn8csDM)
Wagner-Rogers Debate Documents
Students use these primary source documents to take part in a debate about the 1938 Wagner-Rogers Bill.
![A group of children in 1930s era clothing stare and point at the Statue of Liberty.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/709729_Medium_res.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=xQn8csDM)