Aiding the resistance

How Could the Resistance Movements in Europe and Asia be best

aided behind enemy lines?

Liberation of Majdanek extermination camp, and Lublin

A Web Quest

When confronted with an oppressive occupying force the natural tendency of people is to resist. However, resistance is much harder than it first seems, resistance groups need constant support. You are a member of a top-secret commission hand picked by President Roosevelt to study the options available. No one is to know about the work you are doing, for fear of tipping off the Nazi’s to the plan or starting a public outcry. You have information available from the future, how the information got to you is top secret, but use it to make your decision, can you change history? Study the options available and prepare a report for the President.

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Task: Can you change History?

Investigate the sources available to you, study the pro’s and con’s of each issue, and determine the best course of action. Some of your information is from the future, don’t ask where it came from, use it to make your recommendation. Study the different resistance groups that existed and determine the best way to aid the countries you are responsible for.

OSS agents Consider:

v How the groups are aligned politically

v The location of the groups compared to the headquarters in London or the United States

v The leadership of the groups, groups with overly strong leaders won’t take direction, and groups with poor leaders will be to weak to be of any good

v The level of power the Nazi’s or Japanese have over the local population, the goal is to prevent more civilian casualties than necessary not to cause severe reprisals where many more would die.

v Also consider the resistance to the Holocaust by the Jews. Use this information for the countries that the Jewish concentration camps were (ie Poland, Holland, Germany, Italy, Russia, etc)

Liaison- study at one to two of the sites for each of the OSS agents, come to a general conclusion about possible plan of on aiding resistance groups. Realize the information from the future gives all of you an advantage, use that to see who needs help, who to help, and give ideas on how you want to do it. Yours is the opinion that will be presented last to the president. So you can take into consideration the recommendations of your agents, or you can make your own choice, that is up to you.

When you have done your research compile your recommendations into a report for the President.

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Sources

OSS Agents 001 and 002

Basic information

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/resistance_movements.htm

Italian Resistance During the war

https://www.cia.gov/csi/kent_csi/docs/v41i5a06p.htm

German Resistance During the war

http://www.gdw-berlin.de/b13/b13-ueb-e.php

Albania

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/albania_resistance.htm

http://countrystudies.us/albania/151.htm

Belgium

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/belgium_resistance.htm

Czechoslovakia

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/czechoslovakia_resistance.htm

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/66218

Denmark

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/danish_resistance.htm

http://www.peachtree-online.com/Yellow_Star_no_art/Adults/resistance.adult.htm

France

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/french_resistance.htm

https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98_99/art03.html

Greece

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/greece_resistance.htm

http://libcom.org/history/1941-1945-andartiko-the-greek-resistance

Holland, the Netherlands

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/dutch_resistance.htm

https://www.cia.gov/csi/kent_csi/docs/v41i5a07p.htm

Hungary

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hungary_resistance.htm

http://libcom.org/history/1944-1945-anarchists-in-the-hungarian-resistance

Norway

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/norwegian_resistance.htm

https://www.cia.gov/csi/kent_csi/docs/v43i3a05p.htm

Poland

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/norwegian_resistance.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II

Russia

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russian_resistance_movement.htm

Resistance in Belarus a region of the Soviet Union

http://www.belarusguide.com/history1/WWII_partisan_resistance_in_Belarus.htm

Yugoslavia

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/resistance_movement_in_yugoslavi.htm

OSS agent 003

ASIA OSS operations in ASIA

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art09.htm

Ampaw Unit in the Philippines

http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/hl/hl100564.htm

Resistance in the Philippines

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nps.gov/wapa/indepth/extContent/wapa/guides/first/images/fig6.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nps.gov/wapa/indepth/extContent/wapa/guides/first/sec2.htm&h=602&w=400&sz=37&tbnid=JWzHU2UMIUwJ:&tbnh=133&tbnw=88&hl=en&start=3&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphilippine%2Bresistance%2B%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Resistance in Philippines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huk

Malayan Resistance – Asia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_People%E2%80%99s_Anti-Japanese_Army

Free Thailand Movement during WWII

https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/vol50no1/10_BK_Thai_Secret_War.htm

Liaisons

Over all good site for more information on any area – Liaisons see this site, use menu to find your information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance_during_World_War_II

*Sources good for all agents to look at*

What was the OSS

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art03.htm

OSS in Europe and Asia

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art05.htm

OSS aided operations in Europe

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art07.htm

Special Operations Executive (SOE)

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/special_operations_executive.htm

The Lysander

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/lysander.htm

Weapons and Spy Gear

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/oss/art08.htm

Jewish Resistance. Examine all the links

http://motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org/pages/rr.html

Jewish Resistance: This is a long document, so read only the portions you are most interested in

Article from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Process

You have been assigned one of the following roles for your part in this WebQuest.

OSS AGENT 001 --Use your skills and special training as a Spy to investigate all possible ways to aid the countries in your area of specialty. Be sure to take into account the political environment in your countries, the make up of the resistance movements and the distance from your base of operations. You specialize in: Albania, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Norway, and Yugoslavia. Use the proper format for your proposal.

OSS AGENT 002 --Use your skills and special training as a Spy to investigate all possible ways to aid the countries in your area of specialty. Be sure to take into account the political environment in your countries, the make up of the resistance movements and the distance from your base of operations. You specialize in France, Greece, Holland, Hungary, and Russia. Use the proper format for your proposal.

OSS Agent 003 – Use your skills and special training as a Spy to investigate all possible ways to aid the countries in your area of specialty. Be sure to take into account the political environment in your countries, the make up of the resistance movements and the distance from your base of operations. You specialize in all areas in Asia. Use the proper format for your proposal.

Liaison to the president -- You are the only contact between your group and to President Roosevelt himself. You will take the proposals of the military and diplomatic advisors and prepare a comprehensive proposal for the President. Research 1-2 of each of your OSS agents websites and prepare a comprehensive proposal for the President. Your final proposal can be different that the suggestions than your prosecutors. Yours is the last report to be presented to the president. Use the proper format for your proposal.

(Report Template)

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Evaluation

Ø You will be evaluated on the writing quality of your final report, your use of sources, depth of your analysis, internet use, and how well you worked together as a group.

Ø Your report must be at least one page long.

Ø You will also be graded on your notes, so you must turn those in with your report

Ø Click here for the Rubric for this assignment.

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Conclusion

You have explored the resistance movements in Europe and Asia. It is easy to say that if put into the same situation we would have done things differently, hopefully this WebQuest helped you to see that situations can be so complex clear cut answers are not available, even with hindsight.

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