TheWorld War II Links
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Class Notes:
Map:
WWII in the Pacific
Dr. Seuss Cartoon
WWII Timeline
Hitler & Mussolini Graphic Organizer
School for Dictators Chart
Fascism Communism Graphic Organizer
World
War II Outline
World War II PowerPoint Presentation (this
should be a more manageable file)
Holocaust Timeline
Holocaust Vocabulary
The Wannsee Protocol (Text of
the document)
Holocaust Notes
Links:
The links onthis page are related to the Second World War as well as to the Holocaust. There really isn't any organization in terms of how the links appear. They appear on this page essentially in the order that I came across them.
http://www.bataansurvivor.com/index.php
The link says it all. This is a site by a survivor of the Death March.
This is a good priary source for research on the Death March.
http://www.bataan.navy.mil/March.htm
US Navy site on the Bataan Death March. Has brief background on the Death
March and a few photos.
http://www.390th.org/
A great web site dedicated to some real heroes: The 390th Bomb Group.
They are based in Tucson, AZ at the Pima Air Museum. It's a great museum and
the docents there are the men who flew the B-17 in WWI. They have great stories
and are always ready to share them.
http://www.axishistory.com/
This is a technical site on the Axis Forces. This will have amazing detail
on the Axis order of battle, vehicles, uniforms and so on. This claims to
be apolitical, but be careful if you come across any political claims.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
World War Two Timeline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/
The BBC's site on World War Two
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm
British Site on WWII
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm#Antisem
Be careful! This site is designed to offer examples of Nazi anti-semitic
propaganda. Some of these images can be disturbing.
http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/
The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives. Cool aerial photos of different battlefields
and such. It's worth exploring.
http://www.ushmm.org/
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum's official website. This is a powerful
museum and the website is fantastic.
http://www.ww2incolor.com/
Color photography during WWII was expensive and rare. These are some amazing
images that should not be missed.
http://remember.org/
A cybrary of the Holocaust. Extensive amount of material here.
http://www.remember.org/educate/intro.html
A virtual tour of the death camp Auschwitz in Poland.
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/home.htm
A teacher's research site for the Holocaust.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2691/holocst.htm
A collection of various Holocaust links.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
A collection of posters from the World War II years.
http://www.britishpathe.com/
Amazing British newsreel site that contains achieved newsreels from not
just the WWII years, but from the last 60 or so years. Good stuff here.
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/
The National WWII Memorial on the Mall in Washington, DC. It's about time
we said "thank you" to the "Greatest Generation" so you
should check out this site and the actual memorial.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/
Extensive collection of materials for anyone who is doing any kind of
WWII research.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm
Yale University's Avalon Project site which has hundreds (thousands?)
of primary source documents for WWII (and other historical eras) research.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/index.shtml
Life for children during WWII.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/index.html
Combat photos from the Pacific Theater of Operations during WWII
http://www.tankbooks.com/
Oral history on WWII. Who better to hear the stories from than the men
who lived them?
http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/
Breaking the ciphers and codes of WWII
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm
Navajo Code Talkers during WWII. See what the movie was really about.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook45.html
Another very completeWWII site.
http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/ww2/verify.htm
The voices of WWII
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/ww2%20pacific/ww2%20pacific%20war%20index.htm
World War II in Asia done by a professor at the United States Military
Academy at West Point
http://www.generals.dk/
Generals of WWII
http://www.worldwar2database.com/html/frame1.htm#none
The World War II Multimedia Database
http://www.dday.org/
The National D-Day Museum website
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/
The American Experience: D-Day
http://www.kansasheritage.org/abilene/ikedday.html
Fact sheet for the invasion of Europe
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/DDay.html
Very complete site about D-Day from City College of New York. Good Links
here too.
http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Government/DDay.html#DDayGerman
A link from the previous site on the German view of D-Day.
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/DDay/ddaypage.html
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Digital Documents Project
http://www.dday-overlord.com/Bibliography.htm
Bibliography of D-Day books. Some very good titles here.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/100-11/ch3.htm
Very detailed site on the reasons for the selection of the beaches at
Normandy. Site is a US Army site.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/100-11/ch3.htm
Panorama images of the D-Day beaches and surrounding areas.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm
US Navy site on the attack on Pearl Harbor
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html
The Battle of Britain
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm
The Rape of Nanking
http://english.people.com.cn/200507/07/eng20050707_194670.html
Chinese perspective on the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. This is from the
People's Daily newspaper in China.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/world_war_2.htm
The Japanese plan to "liberate Asia from its colonial masters,"
the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, was the foundation for Japanese
aggression in WWII.
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/index.htm
World War II Battle Maps
http://connections.smsd.org/veterans/wwii_sites.htm
Site with numerous links to World War II sites.