Name:______________________

Period:__________
Topic:____________________________

World War II Museum Research Project

You will be choosing a topic from a list of topics provided to you. Your
name will be randomly drawn from a hat. When your name is called you
must choose a topic from the list. Have 2 or 3 in mind in case the one you
want gets chosen before you get called upon. Once you have all chosen
your topics we will go over the instructions together.

Topics
1. German concentration camps
2. Nazi propaganda in Germany
3. Battle of Britain
4. The attack on Pearl Harbor
5. Dunkirk
6. Battle of the Bulge
7. Operation Barbarossa(attack on Russia)
8. Battle of Stalingrad
9. US Bombing of Japan
10. The Manhattan Project
11. Normandy/D-day
12. Battle of Iwo Jima
13. Warplanes used in World War II(must include examples from
different countries)
14. Naval ships used in World War II(must use examples from
different countries)
15. Submarines of World War II(Must use examples from different
countries)
16. Japanese internment camps in America
17. Ace Pilots in World War II(Use examples from different
countries)
18. Strategic bombing in world War II(Europe)
19. Anne Frank
20. Resistance movement against Germany
21. Military leaders(Army,Navy,Ect. Including leaders from other
countries)
22. Types of bombs used (examples from different countries)
23. Various types of guns used (examples from different countries)
24. Letters soldiers wrote home
25. How were animals (dogs,horses,ect. used)?
26. Japanese prisoner of war camps
27. Spies for different countries
28. Field medicine
29. Overview of military strategy (axis or allies)
30. Tuskegee Airmen
31. Women in the Military – WACS, WAVES, SPARS
32. Kamikaze Corps
33. Tokyo Rose and Japanese Propaganda
34. Propaganda in the U.S.
35. Warsaw Ghetto
36. World War II music
37. New Technology (SONAR, RADAR, etc.)
38. Tokyo Firebombing
39. Rommell and Africa
40. Maginot Line
41. Oskar Schindler
42. Desmond Doss
43. Warsaw zoo
44. Bracero Program (U.S. makes a deal with Mexico to send
contracted workers)
45. Navajo Code Talkers
46. Elie Wiesel
47. Blitzkrieg
48. Gestapo
49. Hitler Youth
50. Impact of the Radio
51. Lydia Litvyak
 52. Battle of Midway
53. Nagasaki and Hiroshima
54. Auschwitz
55. Freddie and Truus Oversteegen

Instructions:

Now that you have chosen your topic you will be doing research in order to
complete a museum exhibit, there will be a rubric for you given to you with
the museum template. There is also a one page essay you must complete.
You will also be presenting your museum. There will be a rubric for that as
well.

Museum Exhibit:

Your museum exhibit is basically a powerpoint template that you will be

provided. The template has your exhibits in your museum laid out for you.
You must take your topic and put together an exhibit that spans all of the
space you are provided in the 4 rooms of your museum.
Each room needs an image or short video to go in the exhibit. You also
must have at least 3 bullet points in each exhibit (each slide). Then when
you click on the exhibit it will go into a new room that you will use to go into
detail about that piece of the exhibit. You must cite your sources on
pictures and information you use.You must have at least 6 sources. You
will submit a works cited page along with you museum and paper when you
turn everything in.

Essay:
You must write a 1 page, 4 paragraph essay. This essay will be about your
museum exhibits and your research. There are four rooms in your museum
which means you must have one paragraph per room. Basically you will
write a paragraph about each of your exhibits, detailing the research you
did and what the significance of that room is and what you chose as
exhibits and why.

Presentation:

Your presentation must be at least 7 minutes long but not exceed 10

minutes. You will go through your museum and explain your topic to the
class. You will be graded on preparedness, length of presentation,
accuracy of your research and meeting the requirements of the museum
itself.

Due Dates:

Research: End of the Period Wednesday 3/20 All 6

Sources

Essay: End of the Period Tuesday 4/2

Museum: Due 4/5

Presentation: After Break TBD