Session Number
D-4
Grade Level
Grade Levels: HS
Start Date
4-3-2016 1:40 PM
End Date
4-3-2016 2:40 PM
Description
A critical turning point in modern warfare—aviation, civilian casualties, and population displacement during the Spanish Civil War and World War II—led to the Nuremberg Tribunals and UN Declaration of Human Rights, foreshadowing contemporary debates about bombing, drones, refugees/immigration, and interventionist foreign policies. This session will span World History and US History, drawing from free archival primary sources (graphic and textual) that reveal changing perceptions of warfare.
Children bombing _ Human Rights 1 day.pdf (750 kB)
Geneva Conv _ human rts sliwon 1 day.pdf (586 kB)
Nurermberg UN Dec _ Human Rights 1 day.pdf (676 kB)
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, European History Commons, Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons, United States History Commons
Session D-4: From Guernica to Nuremberg: Teaching Human Rights Themes in mid-20th-Century History
A critical turning point in modern warfare—aviation, civilian casualties, and population displacement during the Spanish Civil War and World War II—led to the Nuremberg Tribunals and UN Declaration of Human Rights, foreshadowing contemporary debates about bombing, drones, refugees/immigration, and interventionist foreign policies. This session will span World History and US History, drawing from free archival primary sources (graphic and textual) that reveal changing perceptions of warfare.