Journal Prompt:

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• Journal Prompt
• Hungry men are angry men.

• What does this quote mean?
• 2. Do you agree? Why or why not?

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Step 1

• Fill in a Grocery list for your family that will
  provide enough food to feed the entire family for
  one week.
• Determine how much food your family needs each
  week.
• Fill in Column B

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Key Understanding

• Political choices are often determined by key
  issues facing that society.

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Lesson How (and why) did the Nazi Party rise
to power?
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Guided Questions

• What key issues were Germans facing at the time
  of the election of 1932?
• What put Germany in the economic position it was
  in?
• What key issues, if any, exists today that
  influenced the 2008 Presidential Campaign?

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3 Reminders

• The Treaty of Versailles (which ended WWI) left
  Germany with a huge bill (reparations) that it
  could not pay. Any money Germany had, went to
  making those reparations and NOT into rebuilding
  or into stabilizing their own economy.

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• 2. The Great Depression (1929) affected
  countries worldwide and the U.S. was no longer
  able to loan Germany the money it needed to
  rebuild, make reparation payments, or put into
  their economy.

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• 3. Germany faced devastating economic ruin
  and hyperinflation. There wasnt a country
  willing or able - to help.

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• Guten Tag!

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Step 1
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Week 1
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Week 2
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Week 3
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Week 4
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• What changes in grocery purchases did your family
  make over the four week period?
• How might these grocery changes affect how you
  are able to live your life?
• What things might you do to change the situation
  that your family is in currently?

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Unemployment
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• A letter that cost 20 marks to mail in early 1922
  cost 320 billion marks by the end of 1923.

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• Wages were paid daily, or even more than once a
  day, so that workers could spend their money
  before it became worthless.

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• What effect is this hyperinflation and
  unemployment having on your family?
• How will it influence your vote?

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The Election of 1932

• What government actions will help your familys
  situation?
• What does Germany need? What will make it better?
  Is there any way out of this situation?
• Should Germany continue paying reparations
  (Treaty of Versailles) for WWI or is the penalty
  too much?

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Election of 1932

• Your family will look at 3 partys platforms and
  determine which one to vote for.
• Be able to explain your choice.

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Election of 1932
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• In the July 31, 1932 election, the National
  Socialist Party (Nazis) won 230 seats in the
  Reichstag (Germanys parliament), making it
  Germanys largest political party.

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Task

• Write a campaign slogan for your choice of
  political parties in Germanys election of 1932.
• Be sure the slogan addresses key issue(s) facing
  Germans in 1932.

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Examples of slogans

• He Kept us out of War.
• Woodrow Wilson
• A chicken in every pot and a car in every
  garage.
• Herbert Hoover
• Change we can believe in.
• Barak Obama

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Share Out

• Slogans

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Key Understanding

• Political choices are often determined by the key
  issues facing that society.

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Guided Questions

• What key issues were Germans facing at the time
  of the election of 1932?
• What put Germany in the economic position it was
  in?
• What key issues, if any, exists today that
  influenced the 2008 Presidential Campaign?