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Mrs. Janos Name________________________ US History II World War II Scrapbooks BL______Date_________________


 * //__PURPOSE:__//** //To understand the military campaigns, political decisions, and effort on the homefront that won World  War II.//

1. Students will be divided into groups of 4 or 5. 2. Each group will create a scrapbook dealing with one aspect of World War II. 3. Each group will be given various topics to research and will be expected to use the textbook and the Internet as sources. 4. Each group will divide the topics between members in order to be sure all are covered. 5. Using the Internet, students will find pictures, maps, graphs and/or charts, which will exemplify the topics to be covered. 6. Once the picture etc. is located, then a 1-2 page summary/description of the event, individual, or term is required. 7. Groups will also produce a glossary of terms and names with a short description and/or definition of those terms and names. 8. Presentations of these scrapbooks will be made to the class. 9. All students will complete a note taking sheet. 10. Students must select 2 topics from each group’s presentation to write a reaction/refection about those topics which they feel are most interesting to them including their own group’s presentation of material. These must be one half page typed, double- spaced. 11. Citations are required for all pictures, maps, graphs and/or charts. 12. Parenthetical citations and a works cited utilizing proper MLA format is also required for each researched topic
 * //__DIRECTIONS:__//**

1. Newspaper Reporter 2. Politician 3. Foreign Ambassador 4. Child 5. Woman 6. Soldier ( From any of the countries in WWII) 7. Officer (From any of the countries in WWII) 8. Winston Churchill 9. Franklin Roosevelt 10. Josef Stalin 11. Adolf Hitler 12. Japanese American 13. Hidecki Tojo 14. Conscientious Objector 15. Male not in the Military 16. Scientist 17. Union Worker 18. African American 19. Hispanic American 20. Jews 21. Harry S. Truman 22. Survivor of The Atom Bomb ( Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
 * //ROLES://** You may approach the summaries from any of the following perspectives:

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ http://www.historicaltextarchive.com/ http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade40.html http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/decs4.html#War [|www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/ww2/index.htm] http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm [|www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh/wwII/production/]
 * //__WEBSITES TO CONSULT:__//**

1. Neutrality Act of 1939 and Cash and carry 2. Axis Powers and the Tripartite Pact 3. Selective Training of 1940 4. Roosevelt’s 3rd Term (The Election of 1940) 5. The Lend Lease Act of 1941 ( and British aid to Stalin) 6. German Wolf Packs 7. Atlantic Charter 8. Allied Powers 9. Hidecki Tojo and Japanese Expansion (between 1937 and 1941) 10. Attack on Pearl Harbor 11. Reactions to Pearl Harbor
 * //__GROUP#1:__//** **//__AMERICA__//** **//__MOVES TO WAR__//**

=//__GROUP#2: MOBILIZING FOR DEFENSE__//= 1. Selective Service and the GI 2. Women’s Army Corps ( WAAC) and General George Marshall 3. Military Discrimination 4. Minority Contributions 5. The Role of Industry 6. Women’s Role in Industry 7. A. Phillip Randolph and his agreement with Roosevelt 8. The Office of Scientific Research and Development and its achievements ( especially the Manhattan Project) 9. The Office of Price Administration, The War Production Board and other gov’t agencies and their objectives 10. Rationing System

=//__GROUP#3 THE WAR FOR EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA__//= 1. War Plan strategy between Churchill and Roosevelt 2. Organization of Convoys by the Allies 3. The 1943 Battle of the Atlantic 4. The Battle of Stalingrad as a Turning Point 5. Luftwaffe 6. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Erwin Rommel and Operation Torch 7. The Italian Campaign and the battle, “Bloody Anzio” 8. The Tuskegee Airmen and other successes by US minorities 9. D-Day 10. The Battle of the Bulge 11. Liberation of the Death Camps 12. Franklin Roosevelt’s Death and Harry S. Truman

=//__GROUP#4: THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC__//= 1. Japanese Advancements after Pearl Harbor 2. General Douglas MacArthur 3. Doolittle’s Raid 4. The Battle of Coral Sea 5. Admiral Chester Nimitz and the Battle of Midway 6. Kamikaze Attacks and the Battle of Leyete Gulf 7. Iwo Jima and Okinawa 8. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project 9. Hiroshima and Nagasaki 10. The Yalta Conference 11. Nuremberg Trials 12. US Occupation of Japan Post WWII

=//__GROUP#5: THE HOME FRONT__//= 1. Economic Gains of Labor 2. Wartime Population Shifts 3. Social Adjustments and the development of new wartime families 4. 1944 Serviceman’s Readjustment Act also known as the GI Bill of Rights 5. James Farmer and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) 6. The Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots 7. Japanese Internment (Issei and Nisei) 8. Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

Assessment 1. 1-2 page summaries – 10 points each 2. Reflections/reactions - 5 points each 3. Citations for Maps (etc.)- 5 points each 4. Parenthetical Citations - 5 points each 5. Works Cited - 5 points Total - 70 pts