WW2 European Theater Map Timeline - Interactive History Resource
By Micah's Learning Resources
An interactive map and timeline of World War II in the European Theater from 1939 to 1945. Students step through twenty-eight major events while the map flies to each location on a 3D satellite view. What's inside - Twenty-eight timeline events from the invasion of Poland in September 1939 to the Nuremberg Trials in November 1945 - A 3D satellite map of Europe showing terrain, coastlines and rivers at tilt - Thirty-five marked places including seven that are not timeline stops: Warsaw, the Maginot Line, Dieppe, Casablanca, Sainte-Mere-Eglise, Yalta and Bologna - A pop-up at each place with its date, why it matters and a short fact - Previous and Next buttons to step through events in order - Map controls to zoom, pan and rotate the view - A View in Google Earth button on every step How it works - Students move through events in order, reading the description and the pop-up for each place - They zoom, pan and tilt the map to see the ground around each battle location - They can click any marker to open its pop-up regardless of the current event - The Google Earth button opens the same place in a separate Google Earth page Topics covered - The European Theater of World War II, 1939 to 1945 - Major battles: Dunkirk, Stalingrad, Kursk, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge - Key political events: Wannsee Conference, the July plot against Hitler, liberation of Paris - Post-war: Nuremberg Trials, liberation of concentration camps What you download - One file that opens in a web browser. N
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