Access Point Number | Access Point Title |
SS.912.W.7.AP.6 | Recognize that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany used mass terror and restriction of individual rights in order to control their people. |
Name | Description |
Part 2: From Refugees to Embassies: Ambassador James G. McDonald | Through a two-part gallery walk activity students will view historical documents and investigate diplomatic efforts of governments and nongovernmental organizations to aid refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Students will also learn about the diplomatic career of James G. McDonald preceding and including his service as the first U.S. Ambassador to the new State of Israel. |
Part 1: From Refugees to Embassies: Ambassador James G. McDonald | Through a two-part gallery walk activity students will view historical documents and investigate diplomatic efforts of governments and nongovernmental organizations to aid refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Students will also learn about the diplomatic career of James G. McDonald preceding and including his service as the first U.S. Ambassador to the new State of Israel. |
Name | Description |
Portraits in Patriotism - Tatiana Menaker: Secondary School | Born in 1949, under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, Tatiana Menaker grew up in communist Soviet Union (now the Russian Federation), witnessing first-hand the inequalities that occurred under Stalin’s rule. “Refuseniks,” Tatiana and her family applied for permission to emigrate and became “Refuseniks” when they were denied permission to emigrate. Eventually, Tatiana engineered a plan that would allow her and her family to escape the Soviet Union. |