World War II WebQuest

World War II Webquest

Directions:  Create a good doc and share it with me at shipdog65@gmail.com

Use the websites below to complete the webquest about World War II.  

Section 1:  Treaty of Versailles

1. Read about the after-effects of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/treaty_of_versailles.htm

a.      How many people were killed?

b.      Who were the big three?

c.      The four areas of the Treaty of Versailles

Section 2:  Timeline

2. Go to the following site and scroll through the timeline.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm#stpaul

a.      What year did Adolph Hitler become the leader of the Nationsl Socialist Nazi Party?

b.      Go to 1925.  Click on Mein Kampf.  What does Mein Kampf mean?

c.      What is an Aryan, according to Hitler?

d.      What year did the Nazis hold a book burning?  List some examples(3) whose works were destroyed.

e.      Scroll down to 1941.  Look at December.  What happened on December 8 and December 11?

f.       Scroll to the very end.  Click on the “statistics of World War II”.

a.      Which country had the most fatalities?

b.      Which country lost the largest percentage of its population?

c.      How many countries were involved in WWII?

Section 3:  The Battlefield

3.  Go to http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/ Click on the section that says, “Pearl Harbor” on the left. 

a.        What did President Roosevelt do in 1941 and how did the government know there might be an attack?

b.        What happened on December 7 and how much damage was done?

c.        What did the enemy think the Pearl Harbor attack would do?

d.        Why did the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor fail to defeat the United States?

e.        What happened on December 8^th?

4.  Click on the section that says, “Doolittle Raid and Midway” on the left.

a.        What happened on April 18, 1942, and what was the mission?  Was it successful?

b.        What was the psychological effect of the Doolittle Raid on both the Americans and the Japanese?

c.        Read the last 2 paragraphs.  What happened at the Battle of Midway?

5. D-Day - http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/world/d-day_/newsid_3754000/3754731.stm

              a. What was D-Day?

              b. Why was it called D-Day?

Section 4:  Psychology of War

5. Now go to http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm

              a. Define Internment.

b. What was the purpose of internment camps?

c. Where were most of these camps in the United States?

6.Concentration Camps – go to this site that has a map of all the concentration and extermination camps. http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blmap.htm

              a. What was the camp to the furthest point north?

              b. Where was the first camp built?

              c. Which country had the most camps?

Look at this site: http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery1.htm

d.        After looking at the photo galleries for Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau, explained what disturbed you the most.

Look at this site where th chart shows you all of the camps, concentration and extermination.  http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blchart.htm

e.        What was the difference?

f.         How many did the United States shut down?

7.  The Atomic Bomb - http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/ Click on the section that says, “Atomic Option” on the left.

a. Truman said that “the atomic bombs were the most terrible weapon in history.”  Why was he right?

b. What were some reasons why people wanted to drop the atomic bomb, and what are some reasons why people thought it was unnecessary?

Click on “Disbelief of Atrocities” on the left.

c. Why did President Roosevelt refuse to bomb Auschwitz or the train tracks leading to it?

d. Click on “Mental Toll” on the left.

e. Compared to previous wars, what are some reasons why World War II a more difficult war?

Section 5:  Social Aspects http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/

8.  Click on “African-Americans” on the left.

a. Why was there some acceptance of African-Americans in the 1940s?

b.  What was it like on the home front for African-Americans and what was Executive Order 8802?

c. Click on the section that says, “Asian Americans” on the left.

Click on the section that says, “Women” on the left.

d. Read the first 3 paragraphs.  Write a small paragraph explaining why women were important during World War II.

9. Navaho Code Talkers http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmcode1.html

              a. Who came up with the idea to use the Navajo?

              b. Why?

              c. Why were the code talkers heroes?

Section 6: Post-War https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/japan-reconstruction

a.      What was the benefit of rebuilding Japan and Germany after WWII?

b.      What happened to the former colonial possessions of Europe?

c.      How did the end of WWII set the stage for the Cold War?

Spanish American War/Imperialism WebQuest Part I

Spanish American War and American Imperialism Web Scavenger Hunt

Directions:  Create and share a google document with me at shipdog65@gmail.com.  Using the links below answer the questions that go along with the links.  Good luck!

1. What did the Cespedes Constitution of 1869 call for?

2. What was the Ten Years War most serious problem?

3. Why is Fredrick Jackson Turner's thesis an important concept to the Spanish-American War?

4. Why was the US able to pay attention to the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890's?

5. What were the specifics of General Weyler's Reconcentration Policy? 

6. According to historians, what were the roots of the Philippine Revolution?

7. What was Katipunan?

8.    When the United States refused to give the Philippines their independence, who led the Filipino forces in opposition to the U.S.?  What kind of war was it?

9. McKinley begins to be called upon by people, such as William Randolph Hearst, to do something about the atrocities occurring in Cuba.  What is McKinley's response?

10.          Why did Roosevelt say, "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one."

11.          Who commanded the "Rough Riders", and what was this unit's official name?

12.          Why did McKinley ask Congress for money in December of 1897?  How much did the President himself donate?

13.          What was the headline in the New York Journal covering the De Lome Letter?

14.          How big of an award did William Randolph Hearst offer for the capture of the perpetrator of the USS Maine explosion?

15.          What have conspiracy theorists pointed to as the cause of the USS Maine explosion?

16.          When did Congress declare war?  When did the war officially end?

17.          What political position did Roosevelt win initially after his return from Cuba?

18.          Why was Tampa, Florida chosen as a staging grounds?

19.          Who ratifies treaties and what percent of a vote does ratification require?

20.         Describe the reward offered for the "detection of the Perpetrator of the Maine Outrage."    (How much, and who posted it?) 

21.         Explore the Headline Gallery and select one of the samples. Write down the headline. Explain how this might have inflamed American passions for war. 

22.         How effective was the Dynamite Gun used in the Spanish American War?  (Describe briefly how well it worked.) 

23.         Who is called the "father of Yellow Journalism" , and why was he called this?  

24.          Private Manning , a member of the 33rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry, was the first soldier of the war to have what? 

25.         In April 1898 Senator Henry M. Teller (Colorado) proposed an amendment to the U.S. declaration of war against Spain.  What did this amendment say? 

26.         John Hay, Secretary of State, wrote a letter to Theodore Roosevelt describing the Spanish-American war as…

27.         What disease caused more American casualties in Cuba than the Spanish bullets?  Who led the battle against it, and what were the symptoms? 

28.         Who was Alfred Thayer Mahan?  What did he recommend with regard to the U.S. military?

29.         Explain the Boxer Rebellion.

30.         What was the name of the policy of economic expansion which was introduced by President William Howard Taft? Dollar diplomacy

31.         McKinley begins to be called upon by people, such as William Randolph Hearst, to do something about the atrocities occurring in Cuba.  What is McKinley's response? 

32.         Why did Roosevelt say, "I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one."