World War II

The Rise of Fascism-Germany, Italy and Japan
The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919
Voices from the Dust Bowl 1940-41
HyperWar A Hypertext History of WWII
National Archives--A People at War
Timeline--World War II in Europe
General Resources
Chronology of World War II

Voices of the 20th Century--
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
announces Britain's declaration
of war on Germany,
September 3, 1939 (audio file)

WWII Sound and Picture Archive

Dunkirk

U Boat Bases

Teacher Sites
World War II Commerative
Radio News Broadcasts audio files
World War II Remembered

Holocaust
The US Holocaust Museum Learning Site For Students
Simon Weisenthal Museum of Tolerance
Cybrary of the Holocaust
Holocaust Timeline, Holocaust Timeline
The Courage to Remember:The Holocaust 1933-1945
The Nuremberg War Crime Trials
The Trial of Adolph Eichmann,
Eyewitnesses from Auschwitz
The Nuremberg Laws
The Voyage of the St. Louis Online Exhibit
Kristallnacht Online Exhibit
Kristallnacht , Kristallnacht
Oskar Schindler
Raoul Wallenberg,
Auschwitz
Concentration Camps
Survivors of the Holocaust
Visas For Life: The Remarkable Story
of Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara Online Exhibit
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue
Childhood in Times of War

Teacher Sites
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
36 Questions About the Holocaust
The Trail of Adolph Eichmann(lesson plans)
The First Steps
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Voyage of the St Louis (lesson plan)
Holocaust Photographs and Drawings online activity
Rescuers: Those Who Risked Their Lives to Save Others
Encountering Holocaust Denial online activity
Map of the Camps
About.com Holocaust
Other Holocaust Lessons Plans
Background on Nuremberg Trials

Pearl Harbor and America's Response
Battleship Row A Photographic Look at the United StatesNavy During the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 broken link 9/12/06
Attack at Pearl Harbor, 1941
Air Raid on Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor:Remembered
Declaration of War on Germany (copy)
Declaration of War on Japan (copy)

Teacher Sites
Impact of War with Asia on Asian Americans(Lesson Plans)

D-Day and the War in the Pacific
Major Battles of WWII
History Central Major Battles
Maps of the Major Battles
European Theater
Pacific Theater

Normandy
Valour and Horror Canadians at War
Normandy June 1944
The Normandy Invasion
Reporter George Hicks aboard
a destroyer stationed
offshore of the Normandy invasion, June 7, 1944 audio file

Battle of the Bulge
Guts and Glory--D-Day Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945
Battle of the Bulge

Teacher Sites
Guadalcanal
The Cactus Air Force
Battle of Midway
Midway
Battle of Arnhem
Battle of Arnhem Audio and video describing the history of the battle in and around Arnhem in the Netherlands.
North African Campaign
North African Campaign
Pacific War
Timeline
The History Place -World War II in the Pacific
Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima

1200 Days The Bataan Death March

Corregidor-Then and Now

Forgotten Battles of WWII

The Home Front
The Home Front 1939-1945 Britain
The Home Front in WWII
Manzanar:America's Concentration Camp
Japanese American Internment
The History of Japanese American Internment

Teacher Sites
Oral Histories
Oral Histories
Dad's War
Attic Box Project
The HomeFront

Plans for Peace and the Atomic Bomb
The Atomic Archive
The Manhattan Project
Enola Gay
Paul Tibbits
50 Years from Trinity
Atomic Bomb:Documents on the Decision
to Use the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Periodic Table of Elements Used in Class (clickable for more info)
Survivors Stories-Hiroshima
Survivors Stories

Personalities
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman Thoughts of a President, Harry Truman

George S. Patton, jr.
Douglas McArthur
Dwight Eisenhower

Winston Churchill
Hirohito
Benito Mussolini
Adolph Hitler, Adolph Hitler

Literature
Anne Frank: Her Life and Times
Anne Frank House

WWII As Seen Through Children's Literature (Lesson Plans)
Using Children’s Literature to Understand Working Women and Children During World War II (Lesson Plans)
Anne Frank Teacher's Workbook
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

Propaganda
World War II: Powers of Persuasion online
exhibit from the National Archives of propaganda posters.
Get the Message
"Loose Lips Sink Ships"
World War II Poster Database

Teacher Sites
Propaganda--Online Lessons
Poster Girls of World War II

Lesson Plans)

Woman in the War
Women on the Front
Women Come to the Front
What Did You Do in the War Grandma?
Rosie the Riveter
Mary of the WACS a cutout paper doll book
WASP on the Web
Army Nurse Corps

Therese Bonney -- activity, Dorthea Lange --activity,
The Role of American Women in WWII

Miscellaneous

Military Vehicles/Weapons
Luftwaffe
The Fuhrer's Directives in English
US Air Force Museum
Planes and Pilots of World War II
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
UBoat.net
U Boat Bases
American Aircraft of WWII
Tanks of WWII
Luft '46
Classic WWII Aircraft Training Films
Memphis Belle

Codes
Decoding Nazi Secrets

Navajo Code Talkers
German Engima Cipher Machine
Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War

Maps
Pearl Harbor
Maps of WWII
Treaty Of Versailles Maps
Escape and Evasion Maps:Wall Tiles and Free Parking

Photos
America from the Great Depression to World War II, Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 (Library of Congress)
War of Our Fathers:Relics of the Pacific Battlefield
US Troops in Action 1942-1945
African Americans in World War II
Primary Resources

Tuskegee Airman
A Tribute to My Father

Other
They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II
World War II Navy Art: A Vision of War
Radio in 1941