World War II

Students will read and analyze FDR's Quarantine Speech from 1937 by answering 24 questions (a mix of academic, opinion, and creative). The speech has been modified to fit on one piece of paper front and back. An answer key is included where appropriate...

Students will read and analyze FDR's Four Freedoms Speech from 1941 by answering 25 questions (a mix of academic, opinion, and creative tasks). The speech has been modified to fit on one piece of paper front and back. The answers are included where...

Students will read and analyze the speeches Truman gave on V-E Day and V-J Day at the end of World War 2 (WW2, WWII). There are 21 questions between the 2 speeches, 5 compare and contrast questions, and 2 creative tasks. The answers are included where...

Students create two one pagers to review WW2 (WWII), one for the home front and one for battle fronts. There 8 templates for students to choose from ranging from completely blank to having a spot for each piece of information. Topics students must cover...

Students will read 2 articles from the National World War 2 (WW2) Museum and answer 45 questions about the long term and short term causes of Pearl Harbor. They will then complete 5 comprehension/extension tasks (sorting chart, comparing and contrasting...

Students will learn about the people, events, causes, effects, and more from WW2 (WWII) with these 70+ activities, projects, primary source resources, timelines, maps, PowerPoints, and tests covering: Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Holocaust, the Atlantic...

Students will complete true, false, fix to review what they learned through a year of American History/U.S. History (including but not limited to colonization, the Revolutionary War, Washington to Jefferson, the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson, Antebellum...

Students analyze 18 documents, answer 15 historical context questions (a few documents are included in one question), complete a sorting chart, and write a DBQ essay to review the home front of WW2 (WWII). There are 8 essay prompts for students to choose...

Students analyze 14 documents, answer 14 historical context questions, complete a sorting chart, and write a DBQ essay to review the causes of, or road to, WW2 (WWII). There are 10 essay prompts for students to choose from (one allows for the class or...

Students review key people and events from WW2 (WWII) by matching 20 historical pictures to a caption or dialogue exchange. This includes a teacher information page which explains the activity in its entirety. This is best done as a gallery walk, the...

These are 375+ focus questions, thinking prompts, essential questions, objectives, guiding questions, review questions, writing prompts, even test or essay questions that you can use for all of U.S. History (American History). They would work as part of...

Students will learn about the events at Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WW2 with these 7 resources. They will get an overview of its causes (long term and short term) and will compare and contrast 3 points of view. The effects of the bombing...