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40 Task Cards to cover everything about World
War II
Includes student recording sheet and an answer
key
Name __________________________
Directions: Analyze each card and place your answers onto the correct space below.
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Directions: Analyze each card and place your answers onto the correct space below.
Chamberlain
1. Neville
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21. Midway
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Churchill
2. Winston
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Island Hopping
D. Eisenhower
3. Dwight
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Hiroshima
D. Roosevelt
4. Franklin
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Nagasaki
Hitler
5. Adolf
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Rosie the Riveter
Mussolini
6. Benito
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Sell war bonds
Stalin
7. Joseph
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Navajo
8. Hirohito
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Japanese
Truman
9. Harry
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Propaganda
Hideki Tojo
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Rationing
League of Nations
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Genocide
Pearl Harbor
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Kristallnacht
Poland
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Final Solution
Soviet Union
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Anti-Semitism
Battle of Britain
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Nuremburg
D-Day
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Concentration/Extermination Camps
Stalingrad
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Germany
Blitzkrieg
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Marshall Plan
Iwo Jima
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United Nations
Manchuria
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Iron Curtain
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1
He was the British
Prime Minster best
known for his policy
of appeasement
before World War II
started.
3
This American
general was
named the
Supreme
Allied
Commander
of all forces
in Europe.
2
This British Prime
Minister for most of
World War II said,
“We will never
surrender, whatever
the cost may be.”
4
This American
president said
December 7th, the
date on which Pearl
Harbor was
attacked, was “a
date which will live
in infamy.”
5
He led the Nazi
Party and wrote the
book Mein Kampf
about his plans for
Germany.
7
He used 5 Year
Plans to
industrialize the
Soviet Union before
killing millions in
the Great Purge
6
He was given the
nickname Il Duce
and led a Fascist
government
in Italy.
8
He was the Emperor
of Japan during
World War II.
9
He was the US
President who took
office in 1945 and
authorized
dropping
the atomic
bomb on
Japan.
11
Appeasement and
Hitler’s demands
showed the
weakness of this
international
organization.
10
He was the
militaristic Prime
Minister of Japan
and responsible for
the attack on
Pearl
Harbor.
12
The Japanese
bombed this
American naval
base in Hawaii on
Dec. 7, 1941.
13
WWII officially
began when
Germany invaded
this Eastern
European country.
15
Radar and the
code-breaking
machine Enigma
helped England
defeat the Luftwaffe
in this battle in
1940.
14
Despite having
signed a nonaggression pact,
Germany turned
and invaded this
country in 1941
16
This was the code
name given to the
Allied invasion of
Nazi-controlled
Europe on June 6,
1944.
17
This battle in the
Soviet Union was the
deadliest of all time
with about 2 million
casualties.
19
American marines
famously rose the
flag on this island
close to Japan.
18
This German
military strategy
involved surprise
and overwhelming
force to quickly
defeat an opposing
army.
20
Japan invaded this
region of China for
its coal and iron.
21
This battle in June
1942 was the
turning point in the
Pacific when the US
struck a strong blow
against the
Japanese fleet.
23
This Japanese city
was the first to be hit
with an atomic
bomb on
August
6th, 1945.
22
What was the
nickname for the
American strategy for
victory in the Pacific ?
24
The Japanese finally
surrendered after
what city was hit
with a second
atomic bomb on
August 9th, 1945?
25
What was the
nickname for this
symbol of female
workers
during
WWII?
27
What Native
American group
provided an
unbreakable code
for communication
in the Pacific during
WWII?
26
What was the
purpose of this
poster
from
WWII?
28
Which ethnic group
was placed in
internment camps
such as Manzanar in
America during
WWII?
29
Biased information
put out by a country
during wartime is
known as
what?
31
This word refers to
the systematic
killing of a group of
people, usually by a
government.
30
This is when a
government divides
scarce goods among
people to conserve
them for the war
effort.
32
This is the German
term for “night of
broken of glass”
and marks the
beginning of the
Holocaust.
33
This was Hitler’s
code name for the
systematic killing of
millions of Jews,
Poles, and others.
35
After WWII,
captured Nazi
leaders were put on
trial for war crimes
in this German city.
34
This term refers to a
prejudice against
Jewish people,
which existed in
Germany prior to
WWII.
36
Auschwitz, Chelmno,
and Treblinka are all
examples of what?
37
After WWII, this
country was divided
into 4 parts and
occupied by
England, France,
the Soviet Union,
and US.
39
This international
organization was
created for world
peace
after
WWII.
38
This was America’s
plan to give billions
of dollars in aid to
Europe’s
democracies to
rebuild after WWII.
40
This was the
nickname given to
the symbolic
division between
East & West Europe
after World War II.
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