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Unit 7 Overview

Unit 7 Overview

Just 20 years after the end of the First World War, the world faced another, even more devastating global conflict, one in which great violence was aimed at civilian populations.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.

Key Ideas

Think about the following questions as you watch the video


  1. 01:48 How does the scale of the First World War compare to that of the Second World War, according to the video?
  2. 03:00 What were some problems left by the First World War that contributed to the Second World War?
  3. 05:04 What kinds of intellectual ideas and economic situations helped to drive the rise of nationalism in this era?
  4. 06:15 What were some horrors of the Second World War that resulted from this extreme nationalism and from authoritarianism?
  5. 07:35 What does the data about the number of democracies in the world show for the period from 1930 to 1944?
  6. 09:18 What did the Nuremberg laws do?