Enduring+Understandings

1. Geography affects politics.
 * Because European countries share multiple borders (unlike the United States, which is bordered by two oceans), what happens in one country affects its neighbors. (This is true with the US and Canada and Mexico)

2. Politics affects geography.

Examples:
 * British PM Neville Chamberlain sacrificed Czechoslovakia's sovereignty to appease Hitler.
 * Borders change depending on the ruling nation.
 * Names of towns and cities are changed to reflect the victor.


 * **Łódź Ghetto/****Ghetto Litzmannstadt**
 * Terezin/**Theresienstadt**
 * **Oświęcim**/Auschwitz
 * Czechoslovakia is now Czech Republic and Slovak Republic

3. European History is older than US History.
 * USA is a relatively young country by comparison.

4. Religion influenced multiple areas of society.
 * Jews were barred from certain professions/universities.
 * Christian/Islam dominated society.
 * There was no neutral society.
 * Jews lived in a separate part of town; the Jewish Quarter (idea: Google Earth for Jewish Quarter in Prague?)
 * Nazism took cues from Church doctrine (4th century and on) thru the Middle Ages to Protestant Reformer Martin Luther to persecute the Jews.
 * burn their synagogues
 * yellow star

5. Jews are a religion (not a race) [we could argue Jews are a nation, the point is we are not a race]

6. Nazism used pseudo-science (Eugenics) to develop a new form of antisemitism: RACIAL antisemtism
 * Religious
 * Economic
 * Racial
 * Anti-Israel(?)

7. T will understand that the Holocaust was a Jewish event with universal implications. (Shulamit Imber, YV)

8. T will understand that the events of the Holocaust demand that they do something (REFINE THIS)

9. T will use a variety of resources to teach about the Holocaust, and assess student understanding. (RUBRIC? EVIDENCE OF UNDERSTANDING)

10. T will understand that there were various ways of identifying and living as a Jew.
 * no monolithic Jewish existence
 * geographic (in and among countries)

11. Individual decisions affect history. ([])