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INSTRUCTIONS FOR WORLD WAR II FOLDABLE
Neatness and creativity count as part of your grade on this foldable. The foldable does not have a lot of extra
room in some places so be sure to place your information carefully.
1. Glue # 1-7 with lines on the bottom left of the front. Find the map of Europe with areas numbered on it.
Glue this to the middle left front side of the foldable.
2. Glue # 1-9 with lines on the bottom right of the front. Find the map of Asia with areas numbered on it. Glue
this to the middle right front side of the foldable.
3. Over top of each map, write BATTLES.
4. Open the foldable and on the top left inside column, write EUROPEAN THEATER.
Label the top right inside column: PACIFIC THEATER.
5. On the inside middle section, glue the European map and the Asia map (without numbers). Use maps in your
text on page 492, 499 and 508 to color in the following on both maps:
a. Color the Axis Powers.
c. Color the areas controlled by the Axis Powers in 1942.
b. Color Vichy France.
d. Color the Allied Powers (not occupied by Axis forces)
Create a key below the two maps.
6. Below the key for the two maps, write in the middle inside column, North African Theater. Below the title,
write the following: Two Reasons Why the Axis Powers Wanted to Control North Africa. Write in your answer:
Control of the Suez Canal, Capture Middle Eastern oil. Then write the name of the major battle: El Alamein,
and its description: Turning point in North Africa, Defeat of the Afrika Corps.
7. Match the following battles to their descriptions found below. Then write the name of the battle (numbered
and underlined) and in the correct order of occurrence and its description under European Theater on the
inside left column.
1. Invasion of Poland
3. Stalingrad
5. Battle of the Bulge
2. Battle of Britain
4. Normandy
6. Germany surrenders
Last German offensive
May 8, 1945
VE Day
Operation Overlord
D-day; June 6, 1944
Turning point in France
Attempt of make Britain surrender without an invasion
RAF vs. Luftwaffe
Start of WWII
Blitzkrieg tactics
German army destroyed after a long siege
Turning point in the USSR
8. Match the following battles to their descriptions found below. Then write the name of the battle (numbered
and underlined) and in the correct order of occurrence and its description under Pacific Theater on the inside
right column.
1. Pearl Harbor
4. Guadalcanal
8. Hiroshima
2. Bataan Death March
5. Leyte Gulf
9. Japan surrenders
3. Midway
6 & 7. Iwo Jima and Okinawa
All carrier naval battle
Turning point in the Pacific
6 months of fighting with heavy causalities
Start of Island hopping campaign
1st island to be retaken from Japan
Aug. 15, 1945
VJ Day
Defeat of Japanese navy makes it possible for the US army to invade the Philippines
Last islands to be retaken from Japan
Used as landing fields for planes to constantly bomb Japan
1st city to be hit with an atomic bomb
Aug. 6, 1945
Forced march to Japanese prison camps in the Philippines
Thousands of US and Filipino defenders die
Dec. 7, 1941
“a date which will live in infamy”
U.S. enters WWII
9. Write on the back of the foldable: Terms to Know and define these terms. Be sure to relate them to the
battles in WWII. Blitzkrieg, Blitz, Luftwaffe, RAF, VE Day, Island Hopping, VJ Day, Africa Corps
10. Go back to the front of your foldable. Use the list of battles you identified inside your foldable and identify
them by the numbers labeling them on the maps. Also, write the year the battle took place.
11. Final step!! You must have at least 10 illustrations on your foldable. The illustration must pertain to the
information closest to it. You may use the illustrations provided to you or you may draw or create your own.
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THEATERS
OF
WORLD WAR II
European
theater
Pacific
theater
North African
theater
Two reasons why the axis powers wanted
to control north africa
Terms to know
BATTLES
BATTLES