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World War II

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  • Great Site World War II -- Subtopics include :
    • World War II Megasites | D-Day / Normandy | Japanese-American Internment | Hiroshima | Hitler & Nazism | The Holocaust | Pearl Harbor | World War II Posters & Propaganda
  • Avalon Project -- World War II documents (primary sources)
  • Digital History -- Find sources from 1492 to the present, from a collaborative partnership of the University of Houston and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Primary sources
  • EyeWitness to World War II -- Covers a lot of World War II. Primary sources
  • BBC--History--World War II -- Topics include:
    • Destination D-Day: The Raw Recruits | Battle of El Alamein | Battle of Monte Cassino | Battle of Arnhem; Battle for Berlin | The Soviet-German War 1941 - 1945 | Pearl Harbor : A Rude Awakening | Japan: No Surrender | The Burma Campaign 1941 - 1945 | GI Joe : US Soldiers of World War Two | Colonies, Colonials and World War Two
  • The National Archives, in collaboration with Google, has digitized historical newsreels. Primary sources. Newsreels from 1942-1945 include Iwo Jima, Women in the Army, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Yalta), Anzio Beach, the war effort at home, Japanese surrender, Macarthur's return to the Philippines, and others.
  • Rosie the Riveter: Women Working During World War II -- From the National Park Service, this online exhibit includes history of the women as well as stories, photos, and artifacts.
  • Wartime Posters -- from DiscoverySchool.com
  • Churchill -- Listen to Churchill's Iron Curtain speech delivered on March 5, 1946 in Fulton, Missouri.

DATABASES:

Student Research Center -- from iConn (password = 25000020106929)

Gale Databases -- (password = schools)

History Online -- both World History and American History (id = foote; password = reference)

Issues and Controversies in American History -- (id = foote; password = reference)

Oxford Reference Online -- Includes Military History and other WWWII "Companions" (id and password = footesch)

World Book Online -- (id = foote1; password = library)

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