World War WebQuest I: World War Topics

The Internet is yours. Use a search engine like Google to explore some topics about WWI, WWII, or both that interest you. Take notes on your worksheet and let me know how it goes.


WWI (1914-1919) Chapter 24 Topics
Alvin York
Armistice
Battles (Marne, Ypres)
Convoy system
Espionage Act & Sedition Act
Fourteen Points
John J. Pershing
New Weapons (tanks, poison gas, fighter planes, etc.)
President Woodrow Wilson
Soldiers of WWI
The sinking of the Lusitania
Treaty of Versailles
Trench Warfare
Zimmermann Telegram



Both WWI & WWII
Cartoons’ or movies’ involvement in the war effort
Propaganda (posters, cartoons)
The Home Front (rationing, victory gardens, civilian defense)
U-Boats
War bonds and other fundraising
Minority achievements:
African-American
Asian-American
Hispanic-American
Native American
Women


WWII (1939-1945) Chapter 27
Adolf Hitler (Germany)
Anne Frank
Atomic Bomb
Bataan Death March
Battle of Midway
Battle of the Bulge
Benito Mussolini (Italy)
Holocaust/Concentration Camps
D-Day (Normandy Invasion)
Doolittle Raids on Japan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fascism
fire bombing of Dresden (Germany)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
General Douglas McArthur
Hideki Tojo (Japan)
Japanese-American internment
Joseph Stalin (Russia)
Manhattan Project
Navajo Code-talkers
New Weapons (rockets, jets, etc.)
Oskar Schindler
Pearl Harbor
Rosie the Riveter
Underground Resistance Movements (in France, Poland, and other countries)
USO (entertainment for the troops)
Warsaw Uprising
Winston Churchill (England)
Women in the military (WACs, WASPs, etc.)