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Mrs. Janos Name________________________ US History II World War II Scrapbooks BL______Date_________________  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. Everyone will post their scrapbook entries to my wikispace on line.  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  1. Newspaper Reporter  2. Politician  3. Foreign Ambassador  4. Child <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 5. Woman <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 6. Soldier ( From any of the countries in WWII) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 7. Officer (From any of the countries in WWII) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 8. Winston Churchill <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 9. Franklin Roosevelt <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 10. Josef Stalin <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 11. Adolf Hitler <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 12. Japanese American <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 13. Hidecki Tojo <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 14. Conscientious Objector <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 15. Male not in the Military <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 16. Scientist <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 17. Union Worker <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 18. African American <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 19. Hispanic American <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 20. Jews <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 21. Harry S. Truman <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 22. Survivor of The Atom Bomb ( Hiroshima and Nagasaki) 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/] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 1. Neutrality Act of 1939 and Cash and carry <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 2. Axis Powers and the Tripartite Pact <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 3. Selective Training of 1940 <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 4. Roosevelt ’s 3rd Term (The Election of 1940) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 5. The Lend Lease Act of 1941 ( and British aid to Stalin) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 6. German Wolf Packs <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 7. Atlantic Charter <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 8. Allied Powers <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 9. Hidecki Tojo and Japanese Expansion (between 1937 and 1941) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 10. Attack on Pearl Harbor <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 11. Reactions to Pearl Harbor =//__ GROUP#2: MOBILIZING FOR DEFENSE __//= <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 1. Selective Service and the GI <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 2. Women’s Army Corps ( WAAC) and General George Marshall <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 3. Military Discrimination <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 4. Minority Contributions <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 5. The Role of Industry <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 6. Women’s Role in Industry <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 7. A. Phillip Randolph and his agreement with Roosevelt <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 8. The Office of Scientific Research and Development and its achievements ( especially the Manhattan Project) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 9. The Office of Price Administration, The War Production Board and other gov’t agencies and their objectives <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 10. Rationing System =//__ GROUP#3 THE WAR FOR EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA __//= <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 1. War Plan strategy between Churchill and Roosevelt <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 2. Organization of Convoys by the Allies <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 3. The 1943 Battle of the Atlantic <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 4. The Battle of Stalingrad as a Turning Point <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 5. Luftwaffe <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 6. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Erwin Rommel and Operation Torch <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 7. The Italian Campaign and the battle, “Bloody Anzio” <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 8. The Tuskegee Airmen and other successes by US minorities <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 9. D-Day <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 10. The Battle of the Bulge <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 11. Liberation of the Death Camps <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 12. Franklin Roosevelt’s Death and Harry S. Truman =//__ GROUP#4: THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC __//= <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 1. Japanese Advancements after Pearl Harbor <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 2. General Douglas MacArthur <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 3. Doolittle’s Raid <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 4. The Battle of Coral Sea <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 5. Admiral Chester Nimitz and the Battle of Midway <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 6. Kamikaze Attacks and the Battle of Leyete Gulf <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 7. Iwo Jima and Okinawa <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 8. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 9. Hiroshima and Nagasaki <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 10. The Yalta Conference <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 11. Nuremberg Trials <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 12. US Occupation of Japan Post WWII =//__ GROUP#5: THE HOME FRONT __//= <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 1. Economic Gains of Labor <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 2. Wartime Population Shifts <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 3. Social Adjustments and the development of new wartime families <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 4. 1944 Serviceman’s Readjustment Act also known as the GI Bill of Rights <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 5. James Farmer and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 6. The Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 7. Japanese Internment (Issei and Nisei) <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 8. Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Assessment <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 1. 1-2 page summaries – 10 points each <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 2. Reflections/reactions - 5 points each <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 3. Citations for Maps (etc.)- 5 points each <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 4. Parenthetical Citations - 5 points each <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'"> 5. Works Cited - 5 points Total - 70 pts
 * //__ PURPOSE: __//**// To understand the military campaigns, political decisions, and effort on the homefront that won World War II. //
 * //__ DIRECTIONS: __//**
 * // ROLES: //** You may approach the summaries from any of the following perspectives:
 * //__ WEBSITES TO CONSULT: __//**
 * //__ GROUP#1: __//** **//__AMERICA__//** **//__MOVES TO WAR__//**