Knowledge Map
Course: AM/WLD 4
Student:
Unit: World War II
Length of Unit: 2-3 wks. Teacher:
Ohio Standards & Model Course of Study: As a result of this unit, I will be able to ... (I will)
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Name the key allied/axis/military leaders and their respected countries and forms of govt.
Describe the key battles of the European and Pacific theaters.
Analyze the consequences of WWII by describing the impact of the military and the govt. upon post war society.
Trace the significance of Pearl Harbor, and U.S. involvement with the war.
Identify the US mobilization efforts that helped win the war.
Key Events:
Key People:
Key Terms:
D-Day, V-E Day, V-J Day, Pearl
Harbor, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Yalta
Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, FDR,
Eisenhower, MacArthur, Tojo,
Yamamoto
Rationing, isolationism, Axis,
Allied powers, lend lease act,
Japanese Internment
Key Resources (i.e.textbook pages, internet resources, supplemental reading materials, etc.)
The Americans-Chapt. 16 (pages 550-557) and Chapt. 17 (pages 562-595)
Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqQAf74fsE – FDR Dec. 8th speech to Congress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnOtWm5OrM-- Pearl harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfr_AbFv2Nc – D Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDaiQ9n5wEM – Interview about dropping Atomic Bomb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik7C6amdy1Y – Stalingrad
www.americanrhetoric.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufoUtoQLGQY&feature=player_embedded
www.ourdocuments.gov
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=70
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=71
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=73
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=74
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=75
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=78
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=80
www.historyonthenet.com
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/WW2_timeline.htm
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/statistics.htm
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/causes.htm
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/home_front.htm
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/german_success_failure.htm
www.eyewitnesstohistory.com
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm
www.historyplace.com
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/defeat/index.html
Assessments may include (i.e. quizzes, journal entries, oral presentations, multi-media presentations, tests, etc.)
Graphic organizers, quizzes, tests, timelines, maps, WWII poster/model project
Interventions (i.e. how/where to find help for specific needs)
Areas of difficulties: Causes/Consequences of WWII, chronology of WWII events
www.hippocampus.org
Causes of WWII
http://www.hippocampus.org/course_locator?course=US History
II&lesson=62&topic=3&width=800&height=684&topicTitle=Outbreak%20of%20WW%20II&skinPath=http://www.hipp
ocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default
Chronology of WWII Events
http://www.hippocampus.org/course_locator?course=US History
II&lesson=62&topic=4&width=800&height=684&topicTitle=The%20United%20States%20Enters%20the%20War&skin
Path=http://www.hippocampus.org/hippocampus.skins/default
Consequences of WWII
http://www.hippocampus.org/course_locator?course=US History
II&lesson=64&topic=3&width=800&height=684&topicTitle=The%20Allied%20Victory&skinPath=http://www.hippoca
mpus.org/hippocampus.skins/default
WWII Overview
www.khanacademy.org
http://www.khanacademy.org/video/us-history-overview-3---wwii-to-vietnam?playlist=History