Draw a map indicating the five beaches involved in D-Day.
On a map, locate the major WW II battles in which Canadian troops participated.
Construct a timeline of the major WW II engagements involving Canada.
Draw a military map of the battle-plan for Ortona.
The Campaign in Burma is little known. Can you suggest reasons why that is the case. Then, working with a partner, research the Campaign and deliver a PowerPoint presentation to the class on it.
Construct a timeline of the significant events both before and after June 6, 1944.
Imagine that you are a Canadian soldier on the eve of D-Day. Write a letter home explaining how you are feeling prior to this defining moment in your life and the war.
Working in groups of three, identify the ways in which Canada played an instrumental role in WW II.
Write a headline that captures the joy that Canadians felt at the end of the War.
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What evidence is there that the Dutch people still today honour and celebrate the liberation of their country by Canadian troops?
What pre-planning and diversionary strategies did the Allies implement prior to D-Day?
Explain why Ortona is called “Canada’s Stalingrad.”
Identify the purpose(s) of both the Italian and German campaigns.
What sense, mood, and feeling do you get from viewing and studying Charles Fraser’s painting “Ortona?”
Write a contemporary press release about The Battle of Ortona that includes both its purpose, its course, and its consequences.
Bernard Montgomery and Chris Vokes are both pictured addressing Canadian troops. Write the speech that either general might have delivered.
Write either a poem or a song about The Battle of Ortona.
Write a memo to Supreme Allied Commander explaining why you favour a crossing at Normandy rather than at the Pas-de-Calais.
Write a contemporary newspaper editorial entitled, “Operation Overlord: The Beginning of the End.”
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