World War II (Reading Through History)

“World War II” is brought to you by Reading Through History. This is a collaborative effort of two classroom teachers with a combined forty years of teaching experience at the secondary level. It includes 246 pages of student activities related to the significant events and major figures of World War II from the rise of Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini up through the Nuremberg Trials. The workbook includes fifty-five lessons and an answer key for each activity. This is the go-to resource for any U.S. history teacher or World History teacher in need of information or student activities related to the history of the Second World War. This resource manual is sure to be a perfect fit for any classroom, from 5th Grade and beyond. There are 55 reading lessons in all, and each has several pages of student activities to accompany the reading, including multiple choice questions, guided reading activities, vocabulary exercises, and student response essay questions. Topics include the causes of World War II, the Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway, Stalingrad, D-Day (the invasion of Normandy), Battle of the Bulge, Dresden, island hopping, the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Holocaust, the Tuskegee Airmen, Rosie the Riveter, code talkers, Japanese internment, the Big Three Conferences, the Nuremberg Trials, and much more! This volume also includes lessons about the rise of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin, as well as information about Dunkirk, V-E Day and V-J Day, the Zoot Suit Riot, the war on the Homefront, new technologies, and women in the military! Read more