World War II

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 analyze 3 different points of view of that day. The effects of the...

Students review key people and events related to US History by matching 20 historical images to a caption or dialogue exchange for the following topics: Exploration, Revolutionary War, Washington to Jefferson, Westward Expansion, the Civil War,...

Students will read FDR's address to Congress asking for a declaration of war after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor during World War 2 (WW2, WWII) and answer 13 questions. The answers are included where appropriate. This would be great for a...

Students read an account of the Trinity Test from the Manhattan Project, a Japanese account of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, answer 18 questions, and complete a creative task. It also includes an alternate point of view/summary activity...

Students will read a primary source on the Doolittle Raid of World War 2 (WWII, WW2) as one of America's responses to Pearl Harbor and answer 10 questions of varying levels of difficulty. They will then analyze 3 propaganda posters and 2 political...

Students will read about America's role in helping Europe rebuild and recover after World War 2 (WWII, WW2) as per the Marshall Plan and answer 14 questions. There are also 3 extension tasks for students to choose from. The reading is two pages, an...

Students will read and analyze Executive Order 9066 about Japanese Internment during World War 2 (WW2, WWII) by answering 9 questions. There are then 7 discussion questions which students could pair up to discuss and answer before having a whole class...