People
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Patton
Douglas MacArthur
Erwin Rommel
Richard Ira Bong
Robert Oppenheimer
Audie Murphy
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
Ernest E. Evans
Lt. Col. John Malcolm Thorpe
Fleming Churchill, or “Mad Jack”
Douglas Bader
Juan Pajota
Lydia Litvyak
Tommy Prince
Tony Stein
Events/Misc
Sinking of the Bismarck
Japanese Internment Camps
USS Indianapolis
USS Enterprise
Manhattan Project
Potsdam Conference
Jewish Partisans/ Resistance Fighters
Battles
Pearl Harbor
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Leyte Gulf
D-Day
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Stalingrad
Groups
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
442nd infantry
Spies of WWII
Kamikaze Corps
Women in the Military – WACS, WAVES, SPARS
Hitler Youth
Holocaust
Evian Conference
Wannsee Conference
Kindertransport
Oskar Schindler
World War II Project
* Your project will consist of the following 5 parts:
1. Research Steps – Each day in the library/classroom/homework time you will be asked to complete specific research steps. Each of these steps will be graded according to its accuracy, thoughtfulness, and effort you demonstrate. The steps include the following:
Defining the Information You Need,
Discovering Possible Resources,
Locating and Evaluating Resources,
Drawing Out Relevant Information,
Synthesizing the Information,
Reflecting On The Research Process.
2. Summary Paragraph – After completing a sufficient amount of research about your topic, you will be required to write a paragraph which summarizes what you have learned. The paragraph should focus on the key questions and the overall impact of your person/battle/event.
3. Final Product – You will need to create a product which best helps to illustrate what you have learned. With teacher approval, you will have a choice of which product to produce.
Some possibilities include:
Video/Movie Map
Powerpoint/Keynote Newspaper
Website Scrapbook
Poster/Diorama Interview/Skit
Song/Poem
4. Presentation – You will need to plan a brief presentation to the class. In your presentation you will share your final product and what you have learned about your product.
5. Bibliography – You will need to create a bibliography page listing the sources you used for your project. You need to have at least 3 sources – one online source, one database source, one text (book) source.
Key Questions
People:
1. How did their background/childhood/decisions help to shape the person
they eventually became?
2. What role did they play with respect to World War II?
3. What were their successes during the war?
4. How did their accomplishments in the war impact their country and the outcome of the war?
Battles:
1. When/where was the battle fought?
2. Who was involved in the battle?
3. Why was the battle fought? (Was there a special purpose for the battle?)
4. Which side won the battle? Why?
5. How did the battle impact the outcome of the war?
Events:
1. What happened?
2. Who was involved?
3. Why did this event occur?
4. How did this event impact the people involved? … the countries involved? … the war?