General
History Links
Score-10th grade World War II Links
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/DB_Search/db_search.cgi?setup_file=resource10_db.setup.cgi&include=true&grade10=10_8&submit_search=Submit+These+Search+Parameters
SCORE-11th grade world War II Links
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/DB_Search/db_search.cgi?setup_file=resource11_db.setup.cgi&include=true&grade11=11_7&submit_search=Submit+These+Search+Parameters
About.com Battles of WWII
http://militaryhistory.about.com/education/militaryhistory/msubmenuwwii.htm
Homefront Encyclopedia
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/data/encyclopedia/index2.htm
Primary Resource Documents
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/wwii.htm
Historical Text Archive
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/USA/WWII/ww2.html
World War II Links from the Wright Museum
http://wrightmuseum.org/links.html
World War II Links
http://www.fsu.edu/~ww2/links.htm
World War II Memorial
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/
Information on the proposed National World
War II Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C.
The Absolute Authority on World War II
http://www.absoluteauthority.com/WW_II/
World War II Documents
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm
Personal
Memoirs and Oral History Projects
Memories of the 1940’s
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback/english/memories/memories.html
This is an interactive web site. Contributors from
all over Europe post their World War II experiences. You can also join
the e-mail list and ask questions. People on the list will respond.
War Letters
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/warletters/
A PBS American Experience documentary
on letters that were written from the Civil War to the Gulf War.
Japanese Memories of World War II
http://www.intnl.doshisha.ac.jp/projects/sarah/
This web page was done by Japanese high school
students
after interviewing their grandparents.
Dad’s War
http://members.aol.com/dadswar/index.htm
In Hell There’s a Place-Japanese Prisoner of
War
http://www.angelstation.com/swillner/
The Drop Zone Virtual Museum
http://www.thedropzone.org/
Oral History Archives of World War II
http://history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm
World War II Oral History Web Site
http://www.tankbooks.com/
The Toughest Job in World War
II-Medicine
and the Army
http://www.americanheritage.com/97/nov/medic.htm
This article from American Heritage
Magazine about medics in WWII.
Leaders
and Generals
Douglas MacArthur
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/index.html
Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/
Harry S. Truman
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/
The Life and Times of Winston
Churchill
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/
The complete Winston Churchill web
site with speeches, documents, soundfiles, and other information.
Winston Churchill
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchurchill.htm
Franklin Roosevelt Library and Museum
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
Joseph Stalin Archive
http://csf.colorado.edu/mirrors/marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/
General Erwin Rommel
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/PERSON/Rommel.htm
Patton's GHQ Homepage
http://members.aol.com/PattonsGHQ/homeghq.html
A fan web page for General George
Patton.
It was included for some of the memorabilia, but the information should
be balanced with other resources.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/
Bernard Montgomery
http://www.isd.net/aswanson/ww2his/monty.htm
Tojo Hideki
http://www.isd.net/aswanson/ww2his/tojo.htm
Charles DeGaulle
http://www.isd.net/aswanson/ww2his/degaulle.htm
James Doolittle
http://www.isd.net/aswanson/ww2his/doolittle.htm
Emperor Hirohito
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/peopleevents/pandeAMEX97.html
Sound
Files
Britain Declares
War on Germany
http://www.ibiscom.com/vocham.htm
A sound file of
Chamberlain's radio speech.
Gas Rationing
http://www.ibiscom.com/vogas.htm
George Burns and
Gracie Allen humorously describe gas rationing.
D-Day 1944
http://www.ibiscom.com/vodday.htm
Reporter George
Hicks aboard a destroyer stationed offshore of the Normandy invasion,
June
7, 1944
Invasion of
Iwo
Jima
http://www.ibiscom.com/voiwo.htm
A radio reporter
describing the invasion from a ship off shore.
Earthstation1
Sights and Sounds of World War II
http://www.earthstation1.com/wwii.html
Sound files of Roosevelt, Churchill, and
Hitler speeches. There are also radio programs like the
broadcasts
of the Fascist "Lord Haw, Haw", "Tokyo Rose," USO shows, Edward R.
Murrow,
and other news broadcasts.
Science
and Inventions
Decoding Nazi Secrets
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/
Science Pitches In
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/science.html
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
http://inventors.about.com/education/inventors/library/weekly/aa050898.htm
Harvard MarkI Computer
http://inventors.about.com/education/inventors/library/weekly/aa052198.htm
Neutronic Reactor-Enrico Fermi
http://inventors.about.com/education/inventors/library/inventors/blfermi.htm
Konrad Zuse, Inventor of the First Freely
Programmable
Computer
http://inventors.about.com/education/inventors/library/weekly/aa050298.htm
Robert H. Rines, Inventor of Sonar and Radar
http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/88.html
How Radar Works
http://www.iao.com/howthing/radarhtm.htm
Radar and WWII
http://www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk/radar.htm
Music
and Entertainment of the 1940’s
Lyrics World
http://lyrics.natalnet.com.br/html/top40/index.html
American Cultural History-1940's
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade40.html
Oscars
http://oscar.com
Go to history and find the best pictures
for the war years.
Britannica Oscars Article
http://www.britannica.com/oscars/
Skip the lengthy introduction and look
up the war years.
Radio
http://www.otr.com/new_index.shtml
Radio and World War II
http://ac.acusd.edu/History/projects/RADIO.html
Audio files of radio broadcasts.
Pacific
Theater
World War II in the Pacific
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/index.html
Korea
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit.htm
WWII in the Pacific-a diary
http://www.sinclair.edu/sec/his103/103d01.htm
Pearl Harbor Remembered
http://www.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html
Attack at Pearl Harbor-1941
http://www.ibiscom.com/pearl.htm
A first hand account of the Pearl Harbor
attack.
Pearl Harbor-National Geographic Web
Site
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
"A date which will live in infamy" Lesson
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/fdr/infamy.html
Midway
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/98/midway/
Pacific Theater Battles
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/20th_Century/World_War_II/Battles_and_Campaigns/Pacific_Theater/
Japanese Occupation of Singapore
http://library.thinkquest.org/C002071/mainflash.html
A student made ThinkQuest project on the
the Japanese occupation of Singapore. The site has so much
multimedia
that it is very slow to load.
European
Theater
World War II Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
D-Day Memorial Foundation
http://www.dday.org/
What D-Day Cost
http://www.americanheritage.com/special/cost.htm
This web site from Amercian Heritage
magazine
using the letters of a 23 year old private to his wife prior to
the
D-Day invasion.
D-Day Fact Sheet
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/abilene/ikedday.html
Normandy
http://www.valourandhorror.com
Normandy-June 6, 1944
http://www.ibiscom.com/dday.htm
A first hand account of the landing on
Normandy Beach.
Normandy
http://normandy.eb.com/
A very complete article from Encyclopedia
Britannica. It contains information on the training, strategy,
leaders,
weapons, etc.
Imagining D-Day
http://private-ryan.eb.com/
The history behing the movie Saving
Private Ryan. This web site has links to other information
and
movie clips.
Africa
Mussolini and Abyssinia
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/heroesvillains/mussolini/default.asp
Canada
Canada Remembers
http://bytor.com/canrem/canrem.htm
Russia
World War II Through Russian Eyes
http://www.wwIIthroughrussianeyes.com/
Italy
Fascism in Italy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/fascism/fascifla.htm
Home
Front-United States
Pinball and World War II
http://www.interlog.com/~t/pinsww2/Pinsww2.htm
American Cultural History-1940-1949
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decade40.html
Home Front Links
http://wrightmuseum.org/links.html#home
Produce for Victory-Posters of the American
Home
Front
http://www.si.edu/organiza/museums/nmah/ve/victory/vichome.htm
People at War-Science Pitches In
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/science.html
Dr. Seuss Went to War
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/
The political cartoons of Theodor Seuss
Geisel were largely unknown until a book about them was published in
1999.
The UCSD Special Collections Department put them online by year and
month
so if you know when an event took place you may find a political
cartoon
about it. Beware, the man who wrote children's books about
equality
and ecology was definitely politically incorrect in the 1940s when
judged
by our standards.
World War II-The Homefront
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/?tqskip=1
A Thinkquest project done by
students.
There is a rather interesting simulation.
African
Americans
Black Pilots Shatter Myths
http://www.af.mil/news/features/features95/f_950216-112_95feb16.html
Tuskegee Airmen
http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/SJ/TuskegeeAirmen/Tuskegee_Aircraft.html
Tuskegee Airmen
http://www.afroam.org/history/tusk/tuskmain.html
Tuskegee Airmen, A tribute to my father
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1350/
Port Chicago Disaster
http://intergate.cccoe.k12.ca.us/pc/
"Just before10:20 p.m. on July17th,
1944, the worst home front disaster of WWII, occurred at a
Naval pier in the San
Francisco
Bay Area. Five thousand tons of ammunition in ships being loaded by
black
sailors exploded, sending a blast more than 12,000 feet into
the sky." This WebQuest
explores racism against African American soldiers in the military. This
project is written to meet California Standards.
Home
Front-Europe
The Blitz
http://www.iwm.org.uk/cabinet/blitz.htm
A slide presentation from the War
Cabinet Room Museum in London.
Time Witnesses
http://timewitnesses.org/
Contributors to this web site lived throughout Europe during World
War II, and they have documented their memories of their lives.
Time
Witnesses tell of air raids, rationing, occupation, and sometimes very
mundane details that bring this era to life. There is even an
email
address so that you can ask questions.
Civvy Street in World War II
http://www.macksites.com/PART1.htm
Tom Fletcher's True Story of a Civilain in war time England.
Air Attack Over London-1940
http://www.ibiscom.com/airbattle.htm
"In the summer of 1940, twenty-one-year-old Pilot
Officer John Beard was a member of a squadron of Hurricanes based near
London. Waiting on the airfield while his plane is rearmed and
refueled,
Beard receives word of a large German attack force making its way up
the
Thames River towards London. The afternoon sun illuminates a cloudless
blue sky as Beard and his fellow pilots lift their planes off the grass
airstrip and climb to meet the enemy. The defenders level off at 15,000
feet and wait for the attackers to appear. . ."
GI's Trip to London
http://www.ibiscom.com/gilondon.htm
An American GI's account of what London was like
during the war.
War Cabinet Room
http://www.iwm.org.uk/cabinet/cabinet.htm
This is an online tour of the War Cabinet Rooms
prepared in a fortified basement in Whitehall in London during World
War
II. From here Churchill and his advisors directed the war in relative
safety
from the bombing above ground.
Churchill and the Bombing of Dresden
http://learningcurve.pro.gov.uk/heroesvillains/churchill/default.asp
An interactive timeline that raises questions
The Liberation of Paris
http://www.paris.org/Expos/Liberation/chronoA.html
Netherlands Slave Laborers
http://Fox.nstn.ca:80/~avg/
People at War-Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/people/peoplfla.htm
Living with the Enemy
http://www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful/denmark/
Denmark during Nazi occupation.
Nazi Occupation of Poland-1939
http://www.ibiscom.com/poland.htm
An eyewitness account of the Nazi
occupation.
"Dr. Zygmunt Klukowski was the chief physician of a small hospital in
the
village of Szczebrzeszyn south of the city of Lublin. An enthusiastic
diarist,
the doctor daily chronicled the Nazi occupation as events unfolded
outside
the window of his residence at the hospital. Discovery of his
observations
would have meant instant death. He therefore carefully concealed his
manuscripts
often changing their hiding place during five years of Nazi occupation."
Japan
Japanese War Crimes
http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/
Japanese Memories of World War II
http://www.intnl.doshisha.ac.jp/projects/sarah/
This web page was done by Japanese high school
students
after interviewing their grandparents.
China
Japanese Invasion of China
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7727/
Causes of the Sino-Japanese War
http://www.sjwar.org/cause.htm
Chinese History Library-Republican Era
http://www.cnd.org/fairbank/fair-rep.htm
Nanjing Massacre
http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/
Sino-Japanese War Victims
http://is7.pacific.net.hk/~csjwv/
Museum of Nanjing Massacre
http://www.smn.co.jp/gallery/nanjing/
60th Anniversary of the Nanjing
Massacre
http://www.princeton.edu/~nanking/
Alliance for Preserving the Truth About the
Sino-Japanese
War
http://www.sjwar.org/
Flying
Tigers
Flying Tigers Web Page
http://www.qsl.net/n1jat/
This is a real dismal Flying Tigers web
page, but there is a certificate and photographs.
A Tribute to the Flying Tigers
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/MONGELL/
Flying Tigers
http://www.wscoin.com/Info/FlyingTigers.htm
Flying Tigers Photo Gallery
http://flyingtigersvideo.com/photogallery.htm
Flying Tigers Interviews
http://flyingtigersvideo.com/interviews.htm
Annals of the Flying Tigers
http://www.danford.net/flyingtigers/
Claire Chennault Biography
http://www.danford.net/clc.htm
Flying Tigers
http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/pages/t022/t02200.html
China Offensive
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/72-38/72-38.htm
AVG-Flying Tigers
http://www.flyingtigersavg.com/
Dad’s CBI (China, Burma, India) Page
http://home.earthlink.net/~rhack/
Flying Tigers
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/prewwii/ft.htm
Women
and the War
Women Come to the Front
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
Rosie the Riveter
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/
A web site devoted to the women who worked in
war related industries in World War II in the United States. The
site has oral histories of women, pictures, etc.
Women in the Weather Bureau in World
War II
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/edocs/women.html
What did you do in the war, grandma?
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/Adventure.html
American Fly Girls
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/
Rosie the Riveter and other World War II Heroes
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kari/rosie.htm
Women Portrayed in World War II British
Advertising
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5305/
Soviet Women Pilots
http://pratt.edu/~rsilva/sovwomen.htm
Women and Baseball
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ihy950452.html
Women in Baseball
http://www.nocryinginbaseball.com/women/women.html
This terrific web site tells the real story of the movie, "A League
of Their Own". It has all the league standings, the charm school
lessons, the rules of conduct, photographs, the career stats of
individual
players and even the officical song of the AAGPBL.
WASP World War II Home Page
http://www.WASP-WWII.org/
Women in World War II
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets5.html
Homefront-World War II Women
http://www.uta.edu/library/SpCo/fwst/quintet.html
Production Soldiers
http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/women/welcome.html
Women’s Army Corps
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/brochures/wac/wac.htm
Women In War
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/ISSUE/Women/
Women Who Served
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/women.html
Propaganda
Powers of Persuasion
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html
World War II Cartoons
http://www.rarey.com/sites/rareybird/
Nazi and Soviet Art
http://www.primenet.com/~byoder/artofnz.htm
World War II-Government Publications
http://www.smu.edu/~sshort/ww2home.htm
The Role of Propaganda
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/propagan/propafla.htm
German Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
Third
Reich
The Rise of Adolf Hitler
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm
Nazi Germany
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/nazi/nazifla.htm
The Road to War
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/roadwar/roadwfla.htm
About.com Hitler
http://history1900s.about.com/education/history1900s/msub75.htm
Axis Success
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/axis/axisfla.htm
Adolf Eichmann Biography
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/eichmann.htm
Rudolf Hess
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/hess-bio.htm
Reinhard Heydich
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/heydrich.htm
Hitler Youth
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/index.html
German Armed Forces in World War II
http://www.uwm.edu/~jpipes/
The Third Reich Factbook
http://www.skalman.nu/third-reich/
Nazi Prison Camps
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/
A companion web site to a Nova episode
on the inventive ways pows used to escape Nazi prison camps.
Espionage
Enigma and the Code Breakers
http://www.iwm.org.uk/online/enigma/eni-intro.htm
Secret Agents in World War II
http://www.pro.gov.uk/popularhistory/secretagents.htm
Code Breaking Work of Alan Turning
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/bio/part4.html
Code Breaking and Secret Weapons in World War
II
http://members.aol.com/nbrass/enigma.htm
The Making of Magic
http://ac.acusd.edu/History/WW2Timeline/magic.html
A code breaking operation against Japan.
Navajo Code Talkers
http://www.nsa.gov:8080/museum/talkers.html
Loose Lips Sink Ships
http://www.ibiscom.com/lslips.htm
World War II Codes and Ciphers
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/
A web site for information on
cryptoanalysis
in World War II. There are also links to other web sites.
Japanese
American Internment
Japanese American Internment
http://www.jainternment.org/siteoverview.html
This web page tells the story of Japanese internment
from the early anti-Japanese laws to the camps to the movement for
redress.
Complete with audio and video files, this remarkable web site also
contains
maps and documents.
Children's Village
http://www.av.qnet.com/~earthsun/orphans.htm
Japanese American orphans interned at
Manzanar in a section called The Children's Village demonstrates the
war
time hysteria of the time.
Links from the Arizona State Library
http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/internet.html
This web site includes links to Ansel Adams
photographs
of Manzanar, information on Poston Relocation Center, memoirs of
internees,
and War Relocation Agency photographs.
A More Perfect Union
http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/experience/
A media rich web site from the Smithsonian
tells the story of Japanese-American internment and tackles the
Constitutional
questions.
War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona
http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/wraintro.html
Japanese American Internment
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html
Internment of San Francisco Japanese Americans
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
About.com Links on Japanese American Internment
http://history1900s.about.com/education/history1900s/msub111.htm
Manzanar
http://www.nps.gov/manz/
Dear Miss Breed, Letters from Camp
http://www.janm.org/breed/title.htm
An exhibit from the Japanese American
National Museum about a San Diego librarian named Clara Breed, who
helped
Japanese American by corresponding with the children during the war and
sending packages.
The Life and Work of George Hoshida
http://www.janm.org/hoshida/index.html
Japanese American Pamphlet
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Documents/wrapam.html
Japanese American War Veterans
http://www.cosmoslink.net/~jimy/index.html
Japanese American Internment Links
http://www.rr.gmcs.k12.nm.us/domagala.internment.htm
National Japanese American Historical Society
http://www.nikkeiheritage.org/
Japanese American Interment Links
http://www.oz.net/~cyu/internment/main.html
Japanese Americans-442nd
http://www.katonk.com/442nd/442nd.htm
Japanese American Internment During World War
II
http://topcat.bridgew.edu/~kschrock/ED560/lamb/Japanese.htm
Japanese American National Museum
www.janm.org/
Santa Anita Assembly Center Photographs
http://www.oac.cdlib.org:28008/dynaweb/ead/calher/jvac/@Generic__BookTextView/108722;hf=0;nh=1;pt=108541?DwebQuery=Santa+Anita+
Children of the Camps
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/
A companion web site to a PBS program about Japanese American children
in internment camps during World War II.
Map of Internment Camps
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/jpjpgs/map6.jpg
Japanese American Internment
Documents
http://bss.sfsu.edu/internment/documents.html
End
of the War
The War is Over
http://www.af.mil/news/features/features95/f_950731-101_95jul31.html
Allied Victory
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/allied/alliefla.htm
Primary
Resource Documents
World War II Documents
http://history.hanover.edu/20th/wwii.htm
Historical Text Archive
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9061/USA/WWII/ww2.html
Primary Resources for World War II
http://metalab.unc.edu/pha/
This site includes speeches by world
leaders,
the Pearl Harbor hearings, pre-war policy documents, etc.
Nuremburg
Trials
Nuremburg Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/WorldTrial_all.html#NUREMBURG
Links to information, articles, primary resources, and other
information
about the Nuremburg trials.
