Map Assignment

WWII Map Assignment

Part I: Europe During WWII

Use the links to maps below to locate the following information. Please follow all directions.

Link to Map 1

Animated Map of Wars Over Europe

1. Label in BLUE PEN the following countries:

· Albania

· Austria

· Belgium

· Bulgaria

· Czechoslovakia

· Denmark

· Estonia

· Finland

· France

· Germany

· Great Britain

· Greece

· Hungary

· Ireland

· Italy

· Latvia

· Lithuania

· Luxembourg

· Netherlands

· Norway

· Poland

· Portugal

· Romania

· Sicily

· Spain

· Sweden

· Switzerland

· Turkey

· Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

· Yugoslavia

2. Draw and label Rhineland and Sudetenland in BLUE PEN.

Rhineland information

Sudetenland

3. Label in BLUE PEN the following bodies of water, and lightly color all of these BLUE:

Link to Map 2

* Atlantic Ocean

* Baltic Sea

* Black Sea

* Mediterranean Sea

* North Sea

4. Locate and label the following cities. Mark their location with a *.

Link to Map 2

* Berlin

* Leningrad

* London

* Moscow

* Normandy

* Paris

* Rome

* Stalingrad

* Warsaw

5. Color all the MAJOR AXIS powers as of 1941 in PURPLE.

Link to Map 3

6. Color all the MAJOR ALLIED powers as of 1941 in GREEN.

Link to Map 3

7. Color all of the NEUTRAL countries in YELLOW.

Link to Map 3

8. Shade in ORANGE the additional countries below that were overrun by Germany by the end of 1940.

Link to Khan Academy Map

* Belgium

* Czechoslovakia

* Denmark

* France

* Netherlands

* Norway

* Poland

9. Shade in GREY these additional countries occupied by the Axis powers by 1945.

Map Link #4

* Albania

* Bulgaria

* Estonia

* Finland

* Greece

* Hungary

* Latvia

* Lithuania

* Romania

* Yugoslavia

10. Draw a SOLID BLACK LINE in the U.S.S.R. showing the maximum advance of Germany.

Map Link #4

Part II: World War II in the Pacific

Use these maps to locate the following information. Please follow all directions.

1. Go over the equator with RED

Map Link #5

2. Name the following countries or island groups on the map neatly.

Map Link #5

* Aleutian Islands

* Australia

* Borneo

* China

* Formosa (Taiwan)

* Hawaiian Islands

* Japan

* Korea

* Manchuria

* New Guinea

* New Zealand

* Philippines

* United States

3. Using the latitude and longitude directions given, locate and label the following individual islands.

* Okinawa 26 deg. N latitude - 129 deg. E longitude

* Iwo Jima 22 deg. N latitude - 141 deg. E longitude

* Midway 29 deg. N latitude - 178 deg. E longitude

Map Link #6

Pacific Battles

4. Lightly color the bodies of water BLUE and name the following (click on each to see the map):

* Coral Sea

* Pacific Ocean

* Atlantic Ocean

* Indian Ocean

5. Name Indo-China

Indo-China

6. Color with PURPLE the fullest extent of Japanese control during World War II.

Khan Academy Video Map

Map Link #7

7. Did the Japanese hold territory in both the northern and southern hemispheres?

Map of the hemispheres --you will need to do further research to determine what countries Japan occupied. These are just maps of the world divided into hemispheres.

8. In which hemisphere were they stronger?