1) In groups of 3-4, create a huge mind-map of WWII that includes - at the very minimum - the terms on the list below. Going beyond: includes more than the events listed below.
2) For each term, create an information bubble that includes:
a) Title
b) Date/ range of dates (including the month)
c)Description/explanation of the event/term (who, what, where)
Going beyond: add relevant illustrations or pictures, maps, diagrams - organized to show chronology
3) Connect the terms/events together and along the lines, describe how the terms/events relate.
Going beyond: add multiple logical connections.
4) Note: Some terms have additional words in brackets. Ensure that these terms are incorporated into your mind-map. Highlight them so the teacher can easily find them.
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Must Haves (use as a checklist):
1) Washington Naval Conference
2) Dawes Plan
3) Locarno Pact
4) Kellogg-Briand Pact
5) Young Plan
6) Invasion of Abyssinia
7) Manchurian Crisis
8) Stresa Front
9) Spanish Civil War
10) Nanking Massacre
11) Phony War
12) Remilitarization of the Rhineland
13) Sudetenland (appeasement, Chamberlain)
14) Munich Conference (appeasement, Chamberlain)
15) Nazi-Soviet Pact
16) Blitzkrieg (Churchill, lebensraum, Luftwaffe):
b. Denmark
c. Norway
d. Netherlands
e. Belgium
f. France
17) Dunkirk (Charles de Gaulle)
18) Vichy France
19) Battle of Britain/ Operation Sealion (Luftwaffe, Sptifire, Radar)
20) The Blitz
21) Operation Barbarossa (lebensraum)
22) El Alamein (Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel, Bernard Montgomery)
23) Operation Torch (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
24) Lend Lease (Franklin Roosevelt)
25) Battle of the Atlantic (U-boat)
26) Battle of Stalingrad
27) Invasion of Sicily
28) Operation Overlord (Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, Juno)
29) Operation Market Garden
30) Battle of the Bulge (Messerschmitt)
31) Pearl Harbor
32) Battle of Coral Sea
33) Battle of Midway
34) Battle of Leyte Gulf (Island hopping)
35) Iwo Jima
36) Hiroshima bombing (Manhattan Project)
37) Nagasaki bombing
5) You should have a draft/layout of your web completed before working on the final large paper roll (so you don’t waste paper).
RESOURCES
TRY OUT OUR NEW HISTORY DATABASE ( login: charles, password: best)
War begins in Europe: Sept. 1, 1939 to May 1940 Battle of Britain War in the Balkans/Battle of North Africa more: video, images, simulation strategy exercise Battle of the Atlantic more: intelligence , u-boat Battle of the Pacific (Part I) more: American propaganda , slide show Germany in retreat more: primary source, Socialist bias, timeline more: 1930's Canada, video,
- invasion of Poland and new blitzkrieg
- winter war, and phony war, fall of Norway
- fall of the low countries, fall of France, Dunkirk, Vichy France , El Kebir tactics
- Operation Sea Lion: why? What was necessary for German success? British
advantages vs German advantages win
- US lend-lease & role of US prior to Dec. 1941
- British home front preparations
- Blitz; importance of British win
more: images, propaganda video, radio clips, audio interviews
- events in the Balkans and Italy & Germany vs Britain; why? What happened?
- North Africa background and Italy vs Britain; goals of both countries
- Germany gets involved, Battle of El Alamein; Casablanca Conference
- US gets involved, Operation Torch; importance of allied win and what happened next?
Eastern Front
- Operation Barbarossa background: Nazi-Soviet Pact, why did Germany attack; overall plan
- problems for the Germans; tactics of the Russians, atrocities (Einsatzgruppen)
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of Kursk, Siege of Leningrad; Russian advances through 1945
- goals of both countries & importance; use of submarines and convoy system; German
- sinking of Graf Spee, Hood, Bismarck
- why did the allies win; new technology; importance of win & allied strategy
- goals of Japan including. expansion through the 1930's (Manchuria, Failure of the League of Nations, Lytton Commission)
- atrocities including Rape of Nanking
- Pearl Harbour
- Battle of Coral Sea & Midway
- background to D-day; why was it done? Why then? Teheran Conference; German defenses, allied preparation; means of deception
- D-day invasion (more)
- Battle of the Bulge, bombing of Dresden; V1 and V2 attacks (more); German surrender; Potsdam Conference
Battle of the Pacific (Part 2)
- allied tactic of island hopping; overall allied strategy
- Battle of Leyte Gulf & fire bombing of Tokyo
- atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; was it necessary? Why was it done?
role of the Soviet Union; Japanese surrender
Discrimination against the Jews
- background discrimination through the 1930's; establishment of labour camps
- Wansee Conference and Final Solution; establishment of execution camps
- Outcomes, Nuremburg Trial
TIMELINE RESOURCES
| Asia and the Pacific |
| Asian Mainland |
| Pacific Islands |
| Pacific Naval War |
Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers & the Second World War
Eastern Europe 1939 - 1940 - 1941
1942 - 1943 - 1944
1945
Perry-Castañeda Library World War II Maps
Theatres of War ( maps)
