Boston International School (2019-20)
Grade 8 - Individuals and Societies
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Unit 1 - Hitler's Germany
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EQ1L3: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ1: What is Anti-Semitism?
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EQ2L3: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ2: What was the Nazi Party Platform?
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EQ3L3: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ3: How did the Nazis use propaganda?
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EQ4L3: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ4: How did the Nazis come to power?
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EQ6L1: Fear and Indoctrination
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ6: In what was were the Nazis totalitarian?
EQ7L1: Lebensraum and Appeasement
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ7: What was Nazi Foreign Policy?
EQ8L2: Resistance and Refugees
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ8: What was the Holocaust?
EQ1L1: Judaism
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ1: What is Anti-Semitism?
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EQ2L1: Judeo-Bolshevism
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ2: What was the Nazi Party Platform?
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EQ3L1: Posters and Books
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ3: How did the Nazis use propaganda?
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EQ4L1: The Great Depression
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ4: How did the Nazis come to power?
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EQ5L1: Autarky
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ5: What was Nazi Economic Policy?
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EQ6L2: Night of Broken Glass
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ6: In what was were the Nazis totalitarian?
EQ7L2: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ7: What was Nazi Foreign Policy?
EQ8L3: De-Nazification
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ8: What was the Holocaust?
EQ1L2: Social Darwinism
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ1: What is Anti-Semitism?
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EQ2L2: Mein Kampf
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ2: What was the Nazi Party Platform?
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EQ3L2: Films and Speeches
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ3: How did the Nazis use propaganda?
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EQ4L2: The Enabling Act
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ4: How did the Nazis come to power?
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EQ5L2: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ5: What was Nazi Economic Policy?
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EQ6L3: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ6: In what was were the Nazis totalitarian?
EQ8L1: Death Camps
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ8: What was the Holocaust?
EQ8L4: Summary
Unit 1: Hitler's Germany
EQ8: What was the Holocaust?
Unit 2 - Stalin's Soviet Union
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ9L3: Summary
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ9: What is Capitalism and Communism?
EQ10L3: Summary
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ10: What were the Russian Revolutions?
EQ12L1: Gulags and Show Trials
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ12: In what ways was Stalin totalitarian?
EQ13L1: Collectivisation
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ13: What were Stalin's economic policies?
EQ14L1: Winter War
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ14: What was Stalin's foreign policy?
EQ9L1: Adam Smith
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ9: What is Capitalism and Communism?
EQ10L1: Russian Revolutions of 1917
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ10: What were the Russian Revolutions?
EQ11L1: Death of Lenin and Exile of Trotsky
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ11: How did Stalin come to power?
EQ12L2: Stalinist Propaganda
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ12: In what ways was Stalin totalitarian?
EQ13L2: Five Year Plans
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ13: What were Stalin's economic policies?
EQ9L2: Karl Marx
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ9: What is Capitalism and Communism?
EQ10L2: Russian Civil War
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ10: What were the Russian Revolutions?
EQ11L2: Summary
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ11: How did Stalin come to power?
EQ12L3: Summary
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ12: In what ways was Stalin totalitarian?
EQ13L3: Summary
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ13: What were Stalin's economic policies?
EQ14L2: Mongolia-Japan Border Conflicts
Unit 2: Stalin's Soviet Union
EQ14: What was Stalin's foreign policy?
Unit 3 - World War Two
Unit 3: World War Two
Global Contexts Project Rubric
EQ16L1: Marshall Petain VS the Resistance
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ16: What is resistance and collaboration?
EQ17L2: Summary
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ17: How do you maintain morale?
EQ19L1: Rise and Fall of Japan
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ19: What are economic advantages?
EQ15L1: Understanding Global Contexts
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ15: What is the New Grading System?
EQ16L2: Summary
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ16: What is resistance and collaboration?
EQ18L1: Operation Barbarossa and D-Day
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ18: What are strategic errors?
EQ19L2: Summary
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ19: What are economic advantages?
EQ15L2: Summary
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ15: What is the New Grading System?
EQ17L1: The Battle for Britain
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ17: How do you maintain morale?
EQ18L2: Summary
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ18: What are strategic errors?
EQ20L1: The Manhattan Project
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ20: What are ethics?
EQ20L2: Summary
Unit 3: World War Two
EQ20: What are ethics?
Unit 4 - Dawn of the Cold War
Unit 4:Dawn of the Cold War
EQ21L3: Summary
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ21: What are Human Rights?
EQ22L3: Summary
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ22: What is partitioning?
EQ24L1: The UN and China
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ24: What are Proxy Wars?
EQ24L4: Summary
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ24: What are Proxy Wars?
EQ26L1: Secret Speech?
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ26: What is Historiography?
EQ21L1: The United Nations
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ21: What are Human Rights?
EQ22L1: Wartime Conferences
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ22: What is partitioning?
EQ23L1: Berlin Airlift Crisis
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ23: What was the Berlin Blockade?
EQ24L2: Postwar South Korea
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ24: What are Proxy Wars?
EQ25L1: Who to Blame for the Cold War?
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ25: What are long/short term causes?
EQ26L2: Putin's Memory of Stalin
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ26: What is Historiography?
EQ21L2: The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ21: What are Human Rights?
EQ22L2: Marshall Plan and COMECON
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ22: What is partitioning?
EQ23L2: Summary
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ23: What was the Berlin Blockade?
EQ24L3: Postwar North Korea
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ24: What are Proxy Wars?
EQ25L2: Summary?
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ25: What are long/short term causes?
EQ26L3: Summary
Unit 4: Dawn of the Cold War
EQ26: What is Historiography?
Unit 5 - AP Preparation
Cuban Missile Crisis
AP Preparation
Vietnam War (part 1)
AP Preparation
Resistance to Soviet Control
AP Preparation
MAD Theory
AP Preparation
Vietnam War (part 2)
AP Preparation
Fall of the Soviet Union
AP Preparation
Space Race
AP Preparation
Vietnam War (part 3)
AP Preparation