The Primary Sources series is the winner of the 2015 Academics' Choice Awards for the 2015 Smart Book Award in recognition of mind-building excellence.
The
World War II Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history of World War II. Each primary resource is printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.
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The World War II Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:
• Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Point of View
• Compare and Contrast
• Order of Events
• And Much More!
Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!
The 20 documents in the
World War II Primary Sources Pack are:
1. Photograph of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler - October 25, 1936 - official formation of the Axis between Germany and Italy
2. Photograph of a burning synagogue during Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany - November 9, 1939
3. British propaganda poster entitled "Dig on for Victory" - 1940
4. Photograph of the USS Arizona burning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - December 7, 1941
5. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - December 8, 1941
6. Poster for
Westinghouse Magazine advertising "Rosie the Riveter" - 1942
7. Photograph of American dive-bombers during the Battle of Midway - June 6, 1942
8. Photograph of women at work on bomber - Douglas Aircraft Company - Long Beach, California - October 1942
9. Propaganda poster for Tuskegee Airmen - 1943
10. Photograph of a World War II Ration Book - 1943
11. Photograph of a shopkeeper canceling the coupons in a British housewife's ration book for tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon she is allowed for the week - April 1943
12. Photograph from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - May 1943
13. Photograph entitled "Into the Jaws of Death-U.S. troops wading through water & Nazi gunfire" - June 6, 1944
14. Photograph entitled "I Have Returned" - General Douglas MacArthur returning to the Philippines - October 1944
15. Photograph of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference - February 4-11, 1945
16. Photograph of the first Iwo Jima flag raising - Iwo Jima, Japan - February 23, 1945
17. Photograph of two men sitting after the liberation of Lager-Nordhausen Death Camp - April 14, 1945
18. Photograph of the destruction near the city center of Berlin, Germany, after the Battle of Berlin - 1945
19. Photograph of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan - August 9, 1945
20. Photograph entitled "Kissing the War Goodbye" in celebration of VJ Day - Times Square, New York City - August 14, 1945
Your students will:
• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations.
• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.