Twitter-fying

-ing World War II

The National Association of Historians has asked for a replay of key battles and events during WWII via a technology that will appeal to younger generations, i.e. Twitter. Your task is to come up with a poster of “tweets” on one of the following topics:

-The fighting in Europe (must include: Operation TORCH, Mussolini, D-Day, Operation OVERLORD, Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes Forest, Auschwitz, blitzkrieg, Battle of Stalingrad)

-The fighting in the Pacific (must include: Macarthur, Philippine campaign, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Coral Sea, Midway, island-hopping, racial attitudes towards Japanese)

-Changing notions of war (must include: Manhattan Project, total war, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, fire-bombings of Dresden)

-The Holocaust (must include: Final Solution, Hitler, Auschwitz, America’s policy towards it…, War Refugee Board, Nuremberg Trials)

-Conferences (must include: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, Atlantic Charter, Tehran, Yalta, Manhattan Project, Potsdam)

Requirements:

Each poster will have a timeline of key events (including an explanation of its impact) on the left side. On the right side, you must include 10 tweets on the topics, from at least 2 different figures (these may be well-known leaders or averages soldiers). Make sure you use the “must-includes” in a way that is meaningful and shows understanding the context. Remember—each tweet can have up to 140 characters! Be creative!

Example:

Timeline:

1876: Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as Custer’s Last Stand. Three Indian tribes combined forces to defeat General Custer and the cavalry. Significant because it showed that Native American forces could defeat the army, despite technological differences. This intensified the rivalry leading up to the Massacre at Wounded Knee.