ERIC Number: ED287786
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 37
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German Eagle vs. Russian Bear: A World War II Russian Front Boardgame Kit.
Coatney, Louis R.
This board game encourages junior and senior high school student analysis of the German campaign against the USSR and gauges student decision-making skills. The World War II Russo-German Front is simulated in a standard board game format. A key element of the game is its analysis and results form. Using this form compels students to analyze and understand the historical situations and their own decision-making reactions to the situations. Five hexagonal zones from Moscow to Warsaw are used with each complete turn to depict one month of real time. Campaign scenarios can be chosen from the years 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944 battle campaigns. The average length of the 1941-42 tournament game is 1.5 hours of real time. Variables include geopolitical objectives; Soviet military production centers and their evacuation; movement and combat characteristics of opposing ground forces; major geographical features; weather; supply lend-lease and Soviet partisans. Dispersal and fortification mechanics model the campaign's strategic momentum and inertia. Air and naval forces are only indirectly represented. Strategic variations enable an early Axis campaign start. An example of how to play the game is included along with a bibliography and a historical commentary. (SM)
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Educational Games, European History, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Instructional Materials, Junior High Schools, Problem Solving, Secondary Education, Simulation, War, World History, World Problems
Louis R. Coatney, 625 Western Avenue, Macomb, IL 61455
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Learner; Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Teachers; Students; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany; USSR
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