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are an amazing way to get your students engaged and active in their

learning! The graphic organizers and foldables in this resource are

designed to be folded, cut, glued, & written-on to enhance your

instruction of history. It’s always amazing to see the creativity

some of your students will put into their creations!

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Directions: The worldwide economic depression of the 1930’s created turbulent times in many countries. Some

experienced revolutions and others turned to militaristic dictators. Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union

are 3 countries who saw militaristic leaders rise to power during this time. Complete the chart below with

information about what happened in each country in the decades between World War I and World War II.

Include military actions, political changes, and alliances created/joined.

Directions: During Germany’s rise to power in the 1930’s, both England and France practiced appeasement

rather than challenging Adolf Hitler’s actions. In the thought bubbles above each leader’s head write what they

were thinking about appeasement. Then in the boxes at the bottom, write what appeasement made them

seen as by the other leader.

Neville Chamberlain

Seen as: ________________________

_______________________________

_______________________________

_______________________________

Adolf Hitler

Seen as: ________________________

_______________________________

_______________________________

_______________________________

Finish this picture of

Hitler in front of the

Eiffel Tower

1939 1940 1941

Nonaggression Pact

What 2 countries signed a pact in 1939?

Why did they make the agreement?

Invasion of Poland

Why did the Nazi invasion of Poland start

World War II?

Draw a “blitzkrieg” formation below:

Fall of France

Why did France fall so

easily to the Nazis?

The Battle of Britain

Who defended Britain against the Nazi Luftwaffe?

What technologic advantage did they have?

Draw a “dog fight” below:

Iwo Jima Draw the famous photo

taken at Iwo Jima:

1942 1943 1944 1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Why did the US drop an atomic

bomb on Hiroshima?

Draw a mushroom cloud below:

D -Day

Why was Normandy Beach selected for D-Day?

Draw some of the defenses Germany built:

Stalingrad

What was significant about

this battle?

Pearl Harbor

Who attacked Pearl Harbor & why?

What was the result?

Directions: After entering World War II, America developed a plan for defeating Japan known as “Island

Hopping” to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific. Cut out and color this map

then label the key islands the US “hopped” to and provide details in the boxes about the battles there.

Directions: Starting in 1942, the US government forced about 110,000 Japanese-Americans who lived along the

west coast into camps called “War Relocation Camps”. Most of the people held were there until the war ended in

1945. Cut out the graphic organizer below, then answer each question on notebook paper beneath the flaps.

1. How do you think Japanese-Americans reacted this?

2. What was Executive Order 9066?

3. Describe how you think the children in this picture felt.

4. What adjectives could be used to describe the camp?

5. How does the artist portray the camp?

6. How do you think it felt to grow up in Manzanar?

7. According to Dr. Seuss, why were Japanese put in camps?

8. How do you think it felt to grow up in Manzanar?

Directions: While it actually comprises 4 separate treaties, the Geneva Convention usually refers to the

agreements of 1949 about the humanitarian treatment of war. Those post World War II agreements were ratified

by 196 countries. Cut out and complete the graphic organizers below to describe the impact of the Geneva

Convention on the world and understand it in context of World War II.

Key things LEADING to

Geneva Convention

Visual/picture that represents the Convention What was it?

Key things DURING the

Geneva Convention

Key things RESULTING

from Geneva Convention

Impact on the World Today

Key things LEADING to

Geneva Convention

The Holocaust

Concentration

Camps

The Bataan

Death March

The Rape of

Nanking

Treatment of

prisoners of war

The Convention attempted

to ensure the humane

treatment of prisoners of

war by establishing rules to

be followed by all nations of

what was acceptable during

wartime.

Visual/picture that represents the Convention What was it?

Key things DURING the

Geneva Convention

The Tokyo Trials

in Japan for war

criminals

The Nuremberg

Trials in Germany

for top Nazi

leaders

Key things RESULTING

from Geneva Convention

Convictions of

war criminals

Nuremberg –

execution of

Nazi war

leaders

Open to many possible responses including references to the

debate about Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the use of torture

against terrorists.

Impact on the World Today

World War II Vocabulary Foldable

Directions: Cut out this foldable graphic organizer along the dotted lines and then fold and glue into your

notebook. Underneath each term write a definition in your own words on one side and then draw a picture to

represent the term on the other side of the flap.

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Lend-Lease Act

Axis Powers

Allied Powers

Island Hopping

D-Day

Tuskegee Airmen

Rosie the Riveter

Navajo Codetalkers

Bataan Death March

Manhattan Project

Hiroshima

Here are some additional resources for teaching about the Great Depression and World War II that fit in perfectly

with these Interactive Notebook graphic organizers!