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WWII Final Knowledge Project American Studies Winter 2013 This final project is the culminating assessment to our unit on WWII and the Holocaust. For this project you will work in small groups to answer thematic questions about WWII. Together with your teammates you will be responsible for constructing an intelligent and thorough answer to your assigned research question. Your answer will address and explain all important events, terms, and people – a list will be provided for you. Each group is expected to create one written abstract* (1-2 pages double spaced), a list of the terms defined, as well as a visual. Each abstract will be carefully written and edited and be distributed to your peers in preparation for the examination. The final examination will consist of a written assessment. Each student will be responsible for their assigned question, one question assigned at random, and a final comprehensive question. Detailed expectations for the written abstract and the visual will be distributed after vacation. Successful completion of this assignment requires mature collaboration. We suggest that your group develop an “action plan” for the following days where you devise a schedule, assign roles, and/or divide terms. Due dates: Rough Draft of written abstract: Day 1: February 28th Day 2: March 1st Final Draft: Day 1: March 8th Day 2: March 7th Final written exam and visual due: Day 1: TBA Day 2: TBA *abstract: a concise summary of a large topic that includes all crucial facts and a clear explanation of their significance 1 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ _______________ __________________ (Team Members) 1. Describe the reasons and beginnings of WWII in Europe prior to December 1941. Include important people, places, ideas that caused the war. Terminology Student assigned item Treaty of Versailles Germany quits League of Nations Italy Attacks Ethiopia Francisco Franco in Spain German Speaking People Lebensraum German troops move into the Rhineland in 1936 Austria annexed Appeasement /Germany acquires the Sudetenland Germany takes the rest of the Czechoslovakia Non-Aggression Pact Germany invades Poland Blitzkrieg/Erwin Rommel/Maginot Line France Falls/Vichy government formed Dunkirk Evacuation Battle of Britain/ Royal Air Force Germany Invades USSR 2 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ _______________ (Team Members) 2. Describe United States involvement in the war in Europe prior to December 1941. Terminology Student assigned item Neutrality Act of 1935 Neutrality Act of 1936 Neutrality Act of 1937 Cash & Carry FDR’s Quarantine Speech Neutrality Act of 1939 Lend Lease program Destroyers for Bases USS Greer USS Reuben James Atlantic Charter America First Committe 3 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ _______________ (Team Members) 3. Describe how Japan marched toward war during the 1930s and how this march involved the United States by 1941-42. Include important people, places, ideas that caused our entry into the war. Terminology Student assigned item Manchuria Invaded USS Panay US Embargo Pearl Harbor Attacked/ USS Arizona USS Enterprise, USS Lexington, USS Yorktown Philippines Fall Bataan Death March Doolittle Bombs Tokyo Battle of the Coral Sea *Can be used elsewhere Battle of Midway *Can be used elsewhere WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ (Team Members) 4. Describe the two sides in the conflict. What alliances were made? Who were the major players in the alliances? What political factions did they represent? Terminology Student assigned item Allied Powers US/Great Britain/ USSR Roosevelt/ Truman /US/ Democracy Chamberlain, Churchill, Atlee/GB/Democracy Stalin/ USSR/ Communism Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis Hitler/Germany/Nazi Mussolini/ Italy/Fascist Hirohito/ Japan/Emperor (God like) 4 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ ______________ (Team Members) 5. What were the strategies employed by the Allies in the European Theater and Pacific Theater? Who were the commanders of the Allied effort in both theaters? Terminology Student assigned item General George Marshall General Dwight Eisenhower General George Patton/General Bernard Montgomery Soviets used a scorched earth policy Soviets pushed from the East Allies invaded North Africa Allies invaded Italy Allies invaded Normandy/Western Europe Island Hopping in the Pacific General Douglas MacArthur Admiral Chester Nimitz 5 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ ______________ (Team Members) 6. Cite one key point or moment in each theater of war that changed the outcome of the war in favor of the Allies. Explain your reasoning for your choice. Terminology Student assigned item European Theatre Allies invade Italy Invasion of Normandy/ D-Day Battle of the Bulge Dunkirk Evacuation Pacific Theatre Battle of Coral Sea Battle of Midway US Victory Guadalcanal Battle of Leyte Gulf Battle for Iwo Jima WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ (Team Members) 7. Describe the actions of the US Government toward JapaneseAmericans after the attack of December 7, 1941. Be clear using evidence that explains the rationale and facts as they were known in 1941. Was this action warranted? Terminology Student assigned item Japanese- Americans FDR’s Executive Order 9066 West Coast & Hawaii Racism Issei Nisei Sansei General John L. DeWitt Enemy Alien Control Program Relocation Camps 6 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ (Team Members) 8. How did American civilians respond and help win the war at home? Give examples Terminology Student assigned item Selective Service Act of 1940 Rationing/ food supplies/ gasoline Recycling Metal, Rubber Blackouts War bonds Victory gardens Rosie the Riveter/women working WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ ______________ (Team Members) 9. How did the use of new technology change warfare in WWII? What new technologies were the most important during the war? Terminology Student assigned item V-1 & V-2 rockets Messerschmitt 262 Nylon Sonar Radar Penicillin Synthetic Rubber Manhattan District Project/Atomic Bomb Albert Einstein Robert Oppenheimer Los Alamos, New Mexico Enola Gay Hiroshima/Nagasaki 7 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ (Team Members) 10. Of the major conferences conducted during WWII by the Allies, which one was the most important and why? Terminology Student assigned item Atlantic Conference Aug 1941 Casablanca Conference Jan 1943 Cairo Nov 1943 Teheran Conference Nov 1943 * Yalta Conference Feb 1945 * United Nations Conference Apr 1945 Potsdam Conference July 1945 * FDR, Churchill, Stalin together WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ (Team Members) 11. Describe the mechanisms the Nazis put in place to carry out the Holocaust in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Please give specific examples on the US position toward the Holocaust during this time period. Terminology Student assigned item Holocaust Nuremburg Laws Kristallnacht SS St. Louis Final Solution Heinrich Himmler Schutzstaffel/SS Concentration Camps/Death Camps Warsaw Uprising Dachau Auschwitz-Birkenau 8 WWII Knowledge Groups Winter 2013 __________________ __________________ (Team Members) 12. What were the results of victory in August 1945 ending the Second World War? Terminology Student assigned item V-E Day / V-J Day Liberation of Death Camps East & West Germany Nuremberg Trials Iron Curtain Balance of Power shifted Cold War 13. Of all the items of WWII, which one is the most important piece? Your answer should show insight and reflection to the totality of the war. 9 World War II Knowledge Groups 2013 Day 1 Question 1 Question 2 Brett, Turner Longe, Barry Sayles, Hailey Schlein, Gabby Sabourin III, Paul Jackman, Hannah Rotax, Melanie Question 3 Question 4 Rickner, Julie Martin, Reed Jipner, Mark Gracie, Gretchen Thygesen, Cale Question 5 Question 6 Reiss, Samantha Mattison, Gabe Rozendaal, Louissa Gervia, Quinn Bachand, Ian Bonar, Hannah Question 7 Question 8 Atkins, Brittany Moody, Izzy Thompson, Anna Charnley, MK Question 9 Question 10 Driscoll, Samantha Chandler, Karen Livingston, Meghan Kamman, Sawyer Cousineau, Josh Question 11 Question 12 Fay, Ashlie Ford, Trinity Olivetti, Bakari Skiffington, Young Joo 10 11
