About This Lesson
This Role Play has students in groups of four where each person is Italy, France, Great Britain, or the Soviet Union. For each German aggression (rearmament, remilitarizing the Rhineland, Anschluss, annexing Sudetenland, and annexing Czechoslovakia) the nations must take a position about whether they will invade or not, and if three of them agree, they go to war against Hitler. But given their different situations at each stage of Nazi agression, they probably won't. It illustrates how appeasement actually happened. It ends by explaining the Nazi-Soviet Pact and how the invasion of Poland started WWII. Includes many maps and a political cartoon at the end!
I used this lesson last year. The students got into the lesson and loved trying to get other countries to side with them.