Download WWII Map Project

Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
World War Two Map Directions: Europe
Directions: Complete the following tasks using your text book. Do not color the map unless specifically told to shade.
Instead label using the colors provided. Pages 788 and 796 in your textbook will be useful to complete this task.
1. Title the map "World War Two or WWII" (2pts)
2. Label the map as follows:
a. bodies of water [blue]: (14pts)
Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Atlantic Ocean, English Channel, Adriatic Sea
b. countries [black (all capital letters)]: (70pts)
If a country is in italics you must draw in that country’s borders using a black line.
Portugal
Netherlands
Italy
Sweden
Libya
Algeria
Estonia
Poland
Hungary
Spain
Belgium
Austria
Soviet Union (USSR)
Egypt
Turkey
Finland
Czechoslovakia/ (Slovakia)
Denmark
France
Luxemburg
Germany
Romania
Greece
Lithuania
Ireland
Albania
Bulgaria
Great Britain
Switzerland
Norway
Yugoslavia
Tunisia
Latvia
c. cities [black dot or black star with circle to denote location of city and label using black]: (20pts)
London
Berlin
Rome
Warsaw
Stalingrad
Paris
Vienna
Munich
Leningrad
Moscow
d. special Items [follow each item’s specific direction]: (12pts)
1. Use a thick blue line to draw in the location of the Maginot Line.
2. Locate and label the following areas using brown: Rhineland, Sudetenland, Saar
3. Draw a red arrow from Germany to Poland. Label World War II Begins.
4. Draw another red arrow from Germany to USSR. Label Operation Barbarossa.
e. alliances [follow each item’s specific direction]: (20pts/5pts each)
1. Shade your map to show the sides Europe took during WWII: [fill in the boxes on your map too!]
Axis Countries [Red/shade]
Allied Countries [Dark Green/shade]
Neutral Countries [Light Brown/shade]
Axis-Controlled territory, by 1942 [Outlined in Light Red or Pink/Outline]
f. battles Create two different symbols for battle locations; one Allied Powers Victory and one Axis Powers
Victory. Place the following battles on your map using the correct symbol and label them. (16pts)
Battle of Britain
Stalingrad
The Bulge
Leningrad
Kursk
Berlin
El Alamein
D-Day
h. legend/key (10 pts)
Create a legend/key using the box provided on the map.
The legend/key must have the items from:
 Letter d (special items)
 Letter e (alliances)
 Letter f (your two symbols for battles)
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)
1. Name the countries that made up the Axis Powers. (6pts)
2. Name the European countries that remained neutral throughout the war.
3. Name the event that started World War Two.
4. How is Germany’s location in Europe an advantage in launching an offensive war?
5. How is Germany’s location in Europe a disadvantage in World War Two?
6. Describe the amount of territory controlled by the Axis powers by 1942.
7. Fill in the chart below: (8pts)
Leader
Adolf Hitler
Winston Churchill
Charles DeGaulle
Benito Mussolini
Country
Axis or Allied
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
8. What is the Rhineland? Why did Hitler want this area? What was the reaction of the rest of Europe to
Hitler taking the Rhineland? (6pts)
9. What is the Sudetenland? Why did Hitler want this area? Did the people in this area want to join
Hitler? Why was Czechoslovakia nervous about losing the Sudetenland? (8pts)
10. Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in
turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)
1. Name the countries that made up the Axis Powers. (6pts)
Germany, Italy, Libya, Albania, East Prussia, Japan
2. Name the European countries that remained neutral throughout the war.
Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain,
Portugal, Ireland, Slovakia, Hungry, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Egypt
3. Name the event that started World War Two.
Germany invading Poland
4. How is Germany’s location in Europe an advantage in launching an offensive war?
Students should mention their central location and ease in attacking other countries on the continent
5. How is Germany’s location in Europe a disadvantage in World War Two?
Students answer should mention the fact that Germany could be attacked from multiple sides
6. Describe the amount of territory controlled by the Axis powers by 1942.
Germany controlled nearly the entire mainland of Europe with only the Iberian peninsula not in their
possession. And they took a good chunk of the USSR
7. Fill in the chart below: (8pts)
Leader
Country
Axis or Allied
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Axis
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Allied
Charles DeGaulle
France
Allied
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Axis
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
8. What is the Rhineland? Why did Hitler want this area? What was the reaction of the rest of Europe to
Hitler taking the Rhineland? (6pts)
A German territory that bordered France
To reunite all German speaking people and as a reaction to the French-Soviet military agreement
Complained about Hitler doing it and breaking the Treaty of Versailles but took no real action
9. What is the Sudetenland? Why did Hitler want this area? Did the people in this area want to join
Hitler? Why was Czechoslovakia nervous about losing the Sudetenland? (8pts)
A region filled with a German speaking population
To reunite all the German speaking people and to protect them from Czechoslovakia government
Yes they wanted to join Germany
Losing this heavily armed mountain region would leave Czechoslovakia defenseless against Germany
10. Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in
turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
Answer will vary. Students’ answers must include the battle name and evidence to support
their decision.
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
World War Two Map Directions: Pacific Theater
Directions: Complete the following tasks using your text book. Do not color the map unless specifically told to shade.
Instead label using the colors provided. Page 807 in your textbook will be useful to complete this task.
1. Title the map "World War Two Pacific Theater or WWII Pacific Theater" (2pts)
2. Label the map as follows:
a. bodies of water [blue]: (4pts)
Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean
b. countries [black (all capital letters)]: (26pts)
Japan
French Indochina
Korea
Taiwan
Soviet Union
Australia
Burma
China
US (Hawaii & Alaska)
Manchuria
Philippines
Thailand
New Guinea
c. cities [black dot or black star with circle to denote location of city and label using black]: (8pts)
Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok, Chongqing
d. special Items [follow each item’s specific direction]: (6pts)
1. Using purple draw a symbol that looks like a mushroom to denote the atomic bombing sites of:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (also label each symbol)
2. Using a thick red line to draw the “greatest extent of Japanese Empire, July 1942.”
e. alliances [follow each item’s specific direction]: (15pts/5pts each)
1. Shade your map to show the sides Europe took during WWII: [fill in the boxes on your map too!]
Axis Countries [Red/shade]
Allied Countries [Dark Green/shade]
Japan conquests, 1941 [orange/shade]
f. battles Create two different symbols for battle locations; one Allied Powers Victory and one Axis Powers
Victory. Place the following battles on your map using the correct symbol and label them. (12pts)
Pearl Harbor
Iwo Jima
Midway
Okinawa
Guam
Coral Sea
h. legend/key (10 pts)
Create a legend/key using the box provided on the map.
The legend/key must have the items from:
 Letter d (special items)
 Letter e (alliances)
 Letter f (your two symbols for battles)
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)
1. Name the event that brought the United States into World War Two.
2. What mainland Asia areas did Japan control?
3. Name the battle that was the furthest south.
4. Describe the amount of territory Japan controlled by July 1942.
5. Looking at your map how describe how the fighting in the Pacific Theater would be different from
fighting in Europe. What term best describes this type of fighting?
6. Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in
turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
7. Use the passage from the August 29, 1945 edition of the Christian Century (a prominent American
Journal) to answer the questions that follow it. (1pt each question)
“Perhaps it was inevitable that the bomb would ultimately be employed to bring Japan to the point of surrender…But
there was no military advantage in hurling the bomb upon Japan without warning. The least we might have done was to
announce to our foe that we possessed the atomic bomb; that its destructive power was beyond anything known in warfare;
and that its terrible effectiveness had been experimentally demonstrated in this country….If she [Japan] doubted the good
faith of our representations, it would have been a simple matter to select a demonstration target in the enemy’s own
country at a place where the loss of human life would be at a minimum. If, despite such a warning, Japan had still held out,
we would have been in a far less questionable position had we then dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
a. What is The Christian Century’s view on the United States use of the atomic bomb as a weapon?
b. What proposal did The Christian Century present as an alternative to method that the United
States carried out? Why did they propose such an option?
8. Use passage from Memoirs of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (1947) to answer the questions that
follow it. (1 pt each question)
The principal political, social, and military objective of the United States in the summer of 1945 was the prompt and
complete surrender of Japan. Only the complete destruction of her military power could open the way to lasting peace ....
In the middle of July, 1945, the intelligence section of the War Department General Staff estimated Japanese
military strength as follows: in the home islands, slightly under 2,000,000; in Korea, Manchuria, China proper, and Formosa,
slightly over 2,000,000; in French Indo-China, Thailand, and Burma, over 200,000; in the East Indies area, including the
Philippines, over 500,000; in the bypassed Pacific islands, over 100,000. The total strength of the Japanese Army was
estimated at about 5,000,000 men. These estimates later proved to be in very close agreement with official Japanese figure..
As we understood it in July, there was a very strong possibility that the Japanese government might determine
upon resistance to the end, in all the areas of the Far East under its control. In such an event the Allies would be faced with
the enormous task of destroying an armed force of five million men and five thousand suicide aircraft, belonging to a race
which had already amply demonstrated its ability to fight literally to the death.
The strategic plans of our armed forces for the defeat of Japan, as they stood in July, had been prepared without
reliance upon the atomic bomb, which had not yet been tested in New Mexico. We were planning an intensified sea and air
blockade, and greatly intensified strategic air bombing, through the summer and early fall, to be followed on November I by
an invasion of the southern island of Kyushu. This would be followed in turn by an invasion of the main island of Honshu in
the spring of 1946. The total U. S. military and naval force involved in this grand design was of the order of 5,000,000 men; if
all those indirectly concerned are included, it was larger still.
We estimated that if we should be forced to carry this plan to its conclusion, the major fighting would not end until
the latter part of 1946, at the earliest. I was informed that such operations might be expected to cost over a million
casualties, to American forces alone.
a. What was the goal of the United States in 1945 in regards to Japan?
b. What possibility was the United States concerned that Japan might carry out?
c. According to the passage, had the United States carried out its military plans to defeat Japan
without the atomic bomb what were the possible results to the American forces?
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
9. Your choice: Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaski?
Use evidence from the readings to support your answer. (10pts)
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
Answer the following questions using your map and textbook: (5pts each unless stated otherwise)
1. Name the event that brought the United States into World War Two.
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
2. What mainland Asia areas did Japan control?
Manchuria, Korea, French Indochina
3. Name the battle that was the furthest south.
Coral Sea
4. Describe the amount of territory Japan controlled by July 1942.
Japan controlled practically the entirety of the Pacific
5. Looking at your map how describe how the fighting in the Pacific Theater would be different from
fighting in Europe. What term best describes this type of fighting?
The fighting would be more naval and aerial. With battles between troops on each individual
island making it difficult to secure territory.
Island hopping
6. Of the battles that you had to place on your map which one do you believe is the most important in
turning the war in the favor of the Allies. Defend your answer. (10pts)
Answer will vary. Students’ answers must include the battle name and evidence to support
their decision.
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
7. Use the passage from the August 29, 1945 edition of the Christian Century (a prominent American
Journal) to answer the questions that follow it. (1pt each question)
“Perhaps it was inevitable that the bomb would ultimately be employed to bring Japan to the point of surrender…But
there was no military advantage in hurling the bomb upon Japan without warning. The least we might have done was to
announce to our foe that we possessed the atomic bomb; that its destructive power was beyond anything known in warfare;
and that its terrible effectiveness had been experimentally demonstrated in this country….If she [Japan] doubted the good
faith of our representations, it would have been a simple matter to select a demonstration target in the enemy’s own
country at a place where the loss of human life would be at a minimum. If, despite such a warning, Japan had still held out,
we would have been in a far less questionable position had we then dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
a. What is The Christian Century’s view on the United States use of the atomic bomb as a weapon?
That it was misused as a military weapon and the United States was morally wrong for
the manner in which they deployed it.
b. What proposal did The Christian Century present as an alternative to method that the United
States carried out? Why did they propose such an option?
USA should’ve warned Japan of this new weapon. Demonstrated it on a target that had
no life and if Japan refused to surrender then use the weapon on the population of
Japan.
8. Use passage from Memoirs of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (1947) to answer the questions that
follow it. (1 pt each question)
The principal political, social, and military objective of the United States in the summer of 1945 was the prompt and
complete surrender of Japan. Only the complete destruction of her military power could open the way to lasting peace ....
In the middle of July, 1945, the intelligence section of the War Department General Staff estimated Japanese
military strength as follows: in the home islands, slightly under 2,000,000; in Korea, Manchuria, China proper, and Formosa,
slightly over 2,000,000; in French Indo-China, Thailand, and Burma, over 200,000; in the East Indies area, including the
Philippines, over 500,000; in the bypassed Pacific islands, over 100,000. The total strength of the Japanese Army was
estimated at about 5,000,000 men. These estimates later proved to be in very close agreement with official Japanese figure..
As we understood it in July, there was a very strong possibility that the Japanese government might determine
upon resistance to the end, in all the areas of the Far East under its control. In such an event the Allies would be faced with
the enormous task of destroying an armed force of five million men and five thousand suicide aircraft, belonging to a race
which had already amply demonstrated its ability to fight literally to the death.
The strategic plans of our armed forces for the defeat of Japan, as they stood in July, had been prepared without
reliance upon the atomic bomb, which had not yet been tested in New Mexico. We were planning an intensified sea and air
blockade, and greatly intensified strategic air bombing, through the summer and early fall, to be followed on November I by
an invasion of the southern island of Kyushu. This would be followed in turn by an invasion of the main island of Honshu in
the spring of 1946. The total U. S. military and naval force involved in this grand design was of the order of 5,000,000 men; if
all those indirectly concerned are included, it was larger still.
We estimated that if we should be forced to carry this plan to its conclusion, the major fighting would not end until
the latter part of 1946, at the earliest. I was informed that such operations might be expected to cost over a million
casualties, to American forces alone.
a. What was the goal of the United States in 1945 in regards to Japan?
Prompt and complete surrender of Japan and complete destruction of her military
b. What possibility was the United States concerned that Japan might carry out?
Resistance until the very end in all areas under their control
Name: _________________________________________
Period:________
Date: ____________________
c. According to the passage, had the United States carried out its military plans to defeat Japan
without the atomic bomb what were the possible results to the American forces?
Fighting would have went until the latter part of 1946 at the earliest and cost over a
million casualties to the Americans alone
9. Your choice: Was the United States justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagaski?
Use evidence from the readings to support your answer. (10pts)
Answer will vary. Students’ answers must pick one side and defend it using evidence from one
of the readings. Students are not allowed to fence sit.