WORLD WAR II

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WWW Links

• Battle of the Bulge This presentation uses U.S. Army situation maps to illustrate this famous WWII battle. Your students will enjoy the interactivity and the historical expertise shared by Library of Congress curators.
• Experiencing War: The War In a partnership with Ken Burns and PBS, the Library of Congress has created a companion site to enhance the viewing of the film – The War. Don't miss the online field guide on how to participate in the Veterans History Project.
• World War II from the BBC
• World War II Remembered by Scholastic
• Eyewitness World War II
• The Great Depression and World War II
• WW2 People's War
• Powers of Persuasion Posters from WWII
• A People at War
• World War II Remembered
• World War II in Posters
• Guide to World War II Documents primary sources from the Library of Congress

• Dr. Seuss Went to War This site includes political cartoons from the noted childrens' writer Theodore Seuss Geisel(1904-1991) Students can follow the course of World War II through these series of cartoons that first appeared in the New York newspaper.

• Office of War Information
• Women Come to the Front - Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters
• World War II Cartoons
• MacArthur Memorial Photo Collection
• The History Place  
• What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?  
• Harry Truman and World War II
• A-Bomb WWW Museum

• The Race to Build the Atomic Bomb

• United We Stand

• Battle for Bataan

• Conservation Efforts During the War

• World War II timeline from Tom Snyder

• The Heights Remembers WWII -- testimonials from a community

• D-Day American Experience

• Normandy 1944

• Photographs of D-Day

• WWII:  How Technology Impacted the War

• World War II Resources

• World War II Memorial

• Overview of World War II

• Double Victory: Minorities and Women During World War II

• TCESC Holocaust Theme Page

Japanese Internment Camps

• A history of Japanese internment by Father Ryan High School

• A more perfect union

• Camp Photos

• Camp Photos Professor Hayashi

• Children of the Camps (PBS)

• Children of the Camps

• Go for Broke Education Center

• Internment of San Francisco Japanese

• Internment Camps (University of Wisconsin)

• Internment Camp Scavenger Hunt

• Internment Camp Sites

• Japanese American Exhibit

• Suffering under a great injustice (Library of Congress)

Webquests

• Decision to Drop the Bomb
• Mission Europe Hostilities  
• Indiana University WWII Webquest
• In Defense of Freedom
• Create an Historic Newsletter Webquest
• From Grandpa and Grandma's Scrapbook

Lesson Plans

• American Justice on Trial
• Women Get to the Front: Female Journalists in Wartime

• Women And World War II

• WWII Booklist for Elementary Students
• On the Home Front (3-5) Students research how children and other non-combatants contributed to the war effort during World War II.
  
  

Ohio Standards

Social Studies Grade Nine History
10. Analyze the causes of WWII including: Appeasement, etc.
11. Analyze the consequences of WWII...
12. Analyze the impact of conflicting political and economic ideologies after WWII that resulted in the Cold War.....

Social Studies Grade Ten History
11. Analyze the impact of US participation in WWII with emphasis on events on the home front, etc.

Revised  01/05/2010

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