World War II

Students will learn about the women who served during WW2 (WWII) as code breakers by watching a 6 minute video, visiting 4 websites, and answering 14 questions (academic, opinion, and creative). The answers are included and this would work for both US...

Students will visit 3 websites and answer 25 questions to learn about the Nuremberg Trials from the end of World War 2 (WW2). Four questions are connected to an embedded 4 minute video from an American soldier who was a guard during the Trials. There are...

  Students will get an overview of different Holocaust resistance movements and rescue efforts with these 5 activities. They will first complete a webquest on Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement (17 questions) and a webquest on Jewish led...

Students will read 13 quotes about different aspects of WW2 (WWII), answer 22 questions, and analyze 6 images. This would be great for a sub and the answers are included where appropriate.   Sample questions include:--How do Churchill’s...

Students will read and analyze 20+ primary sources from WW2 (WWII) covering a variety of wartime events, perspectives, speeches, and people such as V-E Day, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, concentration camps, battles, FDR's speeches, Dunkirk, the debate over...

Students will read and analyze excerpts of the majority and 2 dissenting opinions of Korematsu v. US by answering 14 questions of varying degrees of difficulty. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a sub...

Students will analyze and review the amendments to the Constitution with these 5 activities. The Bill of Rights is included as the "I Have Who Has" file and as a comprehension activity (understanding the amendments in everyday terminology, via image, and...

Students read and analyze excerpts from the Atlantic Charter and the end result of the Tehran Conference during World War 2 (WW2). There are 16 questions between the two documents. An answer key is included where appropriate and this would work for a...

Students will read President Truman's Executive Order 9981 on equal treatment and opportunity in the military and answer 8 questions (some are text based and some require students to draw their own conclusions). They will also analyze four World War 2...

Students will read about America's role in helping Greece and Turkey recover and rebuild after World War 2 (WWII, WW2) as per the Truman Doctrine, define a variety of academic terms, write summaries from selections of the text, and respond 25 questions...

Students will read and analyze the historical background and a primary source excerpt from an account of the World War 2 (WW2, WWII) evacuation at Dunkirk. They will answer 16 questions, complete a comprehension task, and if time allows answer one more...

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the people and events from WW2 (WWII) with these editable tests (3 to choose from). The questions are multiple choice, short answer, identifications, matching, and image analysis.  The answer keys are...