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World War II Assessment
In learning about the emergence of the Second World War, you will be completing a research project. You will be at liberty to choose what topic you would like to focus on, how you would like to go about designing the project, and whether or not you would like to work with someone else.
Please see the list of topics attached. If you do not see something that interests you, come see me- possibilities are endless.
You have four options for your project. Please let me know which one you decide to do.
Option One: Video Documentary
If you can create a PowerPoint, you can do this. Since this tends to be people’s number one choice, I do break down and teach you how to do this step by step. In a nutshell, you are narrating images collected about your chosen topics. I have many examples to show.
Option Two: Tri-Fold Presentation Board
Here you are to place information researched on a tri-fold presentation board. Keep in mind that on posters like this, you put basic information on the board and include graphics. Because of this, you would be required to turn in supplemental research.
Option Three: Website
If you got used to placing information online, they you may wish to design your own website (or wiki) dedicated to your chosen topic. The website should be presentable with plenty of information, graphics and links.
Option Four: Research Paper
This option is to be done individually. If you choose to write a research paper, you will need to create an outline, a detailed report, bibliography and a couple graphics on your chosen topic.
Topic Ideas by Lesson
The following were discussed in class, but can be researched more in depth.
Lesson One: Isolation to Involvement
1. Germany in the 1930’s
2. Creation of the Nazi Party
3. Rise Adolf Hitler
4. Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
5. Japanese invasion of Nanjing
6. Rise of the Axis Dictators
Lesson Two: Pearl Harbor
1. Women’s Army Corps
2. Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor: Their perspective
3. Executive Order 9066: Japanese Internment
4. Collection of Survivor Stories
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. The surprise attack on the island of Oahu
Lesson Three: The Home Front
1. Bracero Program
2. 442nd Regimental Combat Team (Japanese Americans in WWII)
3. Women in the Workforce
4. African American’s and the Double V Campaign
5. Urban and Zoot Suite Riots
6. Korematsu v. The United States court case
7. American Propaganda
8. Hispanic’s in World War II
Lesson 4: European Front
1. Key Battles (Stalingrad, Paris, Berlin, Normandy, etc.)
2. The use of Navajo codes
3. D-Day Survivor Stories
Lesson Five: The Holocaust
1. Iwo Jima
2. Okinawa
3. Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb
4. Effects of the Atomic Bomb
5. VJ Day
6. Weapons and Method of Japanese Fighting
7. Island Hopping
8. Bataan Death March (Australia)
Lesson Seven: Effects of World War II
1. The Death of Adolf Hitler
2. Roles of the United Nations
3. The Yalta Conference
4. Potsdam Conference
5. Geneva Conventions
6. Nuremberg Trials
Remember: just because this is history, does not mean it is inevitable.
Lib Guide:
http://gettysburghs.libguides.com/americanhistoryii
The following were discussed in class, but can be researched more in depth.
Lesson One: Isolation to Involvement
1. Germany in the 1930’s
2. Creation of the Nazi Party
3. Rise Adolf Hitler
4. Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms
5. Japanese invasion of Nanjing
6. Rise of the Axis Dictators
Lesson Two: Pearl Harbor
1. Women’s Army Corps
2. Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor: Their perspective
3. Executive Order 9066: Japanese Internment
4. Collection of Survivor Stories
5. Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. The surprise attack on the island of Oahu
Lesson Three: The Home Front
1. Bracero Program
2. 442nd Regimental Combat Team (Japanese Americans in WWII)
3. Women in the Workforce
4. African American’s and the Double V Campaign
5. Urban and Zoot Suite Riots
6. Korematsu v. The United States court case
7. American Propaganda
8. Hispanic’s in World War II
Lesson 4: European Front
1. Key Battles (Stalingrad, Paris, Berlin, Normandy, etc.)
2. The use of Navajo codes
3. D-Day Survivor Stories
Lesson Five: The Holocaust
- A particular concentration camp- See me for a list. (Dachau, Auschwitz, Chelmno, Buchenwald, Warsaw, Belzec, Flossenburg, Bergan-Belson, etc.)
- The Wannsee Conference and beginnings of the Final Solution
- The SS (Schutzstaffel )
- Leaders of the Holocaust: Hitler, Himmler, Eichmann and Goebbels
- Types of camps (Forced Labor, Death, Ghettos, etc.)
- The Nazi Medical Experiments
- Children of the Holocaust
- Hitler Youth
- Liberation of Concentration Camps
- Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Squad)
- Victims of Nazi Persecution
- Jewish Resistance
- Nuremburg Trials and the Survivors
- A timeline of Genocide- then and now.
- A Collection of Survivor Stories
1. Iwo Jima
2. Okinawa
3. Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb
4. Effects of the Atomic Bomb
5. VJ Day
6. Weapons and Method of Japanese Fighting
7. Island Hopping
8. Bataan Death March (Australia)
Lesson Seven: Effects of World War II
1. The Death of Adolf Hitler
2. Roles of the United Nations
3. The Yalta Conference
4. Potsdam Conference
5. Geneva Conventions
6. Nuremberg Trials
Remember: just because this is history, does not mean it is inevitable.
Lib Guide:
http://gettysburghs.libguides.com/americanhistoryii