World War II

Students will review what they learned about Navajo Code Talkers by creating a pamphlet and fulfilling 9 academic and creative requirements (including writing something using Navajo Code). A sample layout and points distribution are included. This would...

Students will review World War 2 (WW2, WWII) by analyzing the arguments for and against the decisions FDR made regarding the attack at Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb, and the internment of Japanese-Americans. They will create a pamphlet...

Students will learn about, or review, the main WW2 (WWII) conferences (Munich, Cairo, Casablanca, Atlantic, Potsdam, Tehran, and Yalta) by completing a research chart, answering two questions, matching primary source quotes to their conferences, and...

Students will review the people and events of World War 2 (WWII, WW2) by creating a timeline out of political cartoons. There is a 2 part written academic portion to this assignment for each cartoon followed by an opinion task. A selection of websites...

Students will compare and contrast the D-Day accounts of an American soldier landing at Normandy and a French civilian from World War 2 (WW2, WWII). They answer 14 questions then compare and contrast the accounts (3 additional questions). The answers are...

This WW2 (WWII) writing activity review asks students to take on the role of news reporter during the war and write a cumulative RAFT. Allowing for suspension of disbelief, the student is moved from unit to unit and must report on Pearl Harbor, the...

Students will play true, false, fix to review the events and people of WW2 (WWII) by reading 45 statements and determining which are true and which are false. They will then complete 3 other tasks with the material. This is best done in pairs or triplets...

Students will read about the liberation of the concentration camp Majdanek during World War 2 from the perspective of a journalist and answer 10 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. Four websites have been included after the reading for students...

Students will read a passage on the Nuremberg Laws and anti-Semitism in Germany between the wars, a sample selection of the Nuremberg Laws and anti-Semitic measures, and answer 15 discussion questions. The reading passage and questions reference...

Students will learn about Truman's presidency and the start of the Cold War with this PowerPoint (you can also use it as a gallery walk) and note guide with comprehension tasks. The topics covered include containment, NSC-68, the Red Scare, the Fair...

Students will learn about, or review, the people and events that led to the start of WW2 (World War 2, WWII) by organizing 15 items on a timeline. They will complete 4 tasks for those items and extension tasks for 7 of the timeline items using provided...

Students will review the places and events of World War 2 (WW2, WWII) in Europe by completing these three maps. The first map has 10 tasks for students to complete related to the events and alliances of the war. The second map covers WW2 political...