WWII Internet Sites

Iroquois Middle School Library

General Resources

Eyewitness to History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm

 “History through the eyes of those who lived it.”

A variety of articles including “Inside a Nazi Death Camp, 1944”, “Sunk by a Submarine, 1944”, etc. 

History Learning Site

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/WORLD%20WAR%20TWO.htm

World War II from a distinctly British point of view.

The History Place

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

Timeline with photos and text.

Comprehensive World War II site.  Use the search box to find links to article and photos.  The "Events" link is a great place to start.

WW II General Resources

http://users.snowcrest.net/jmike/ww2mil.html

Includes the following links:  African Americans in WWII,  Grolier Interactive’s WWII Commemoration, Japanese American Internment, Maps of WWII, Rutgers Oral History Archive, Army Oral History, Bios and Memorials for Combat Vets, Manhattan Project Veterans Memorial, Tanks of World War II, US Army Air Force in WW II, WWII Database, WWII Electronic Archives, WWII Veterans Websites, WWII Primary Resources, Timelines, Sounds and Pictures, etc.

African Americans in World War II

African American Odyssey

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.htmll

Background for the African American experience, including Jim Crow segregation, leading up to and during World War II.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1356

Fact sheet from the National Museum of the US Air Force.

http://www.josephgomer.com/

A son's tribute to his father, a memberof the Tuskegee Airmen.

National Park Service - American Visionaries:  the Tuskegee Airmen

http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/airoverview.htm

Overview of the Tuskegee Airmen.

The Tuskegee Airmen 333rd Fighter Group

http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tusk.html

Atomic Bomb

A-Bomb WWW Museum

http://www.atomicbombmuseum.org/index.shtml

Information about the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki

Atomic Bomb: Decision

http://www.dannen.com/decision/

The Enola Gay Controversy

http://www.lehigh.edu/%7Eineng/enola/

Information about the Enola Gay/ Smithsonian exhibit controversy

Enola Gay

http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal103/gal103_former.html

Photos and highlights of the Enola Gay exhibit.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hiroshima.htm

Espionage – Spies and Code Breakers

World War II Code Breakers, Espionage,  and Special Operations

http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIcodebreakers.htm

Famous Battles

Battle of the Bulge (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/filmmore/fd.html

The bloodiest battle of WWII claimed 80,000 lives.  Use the links on the left side of the page to find more information, including interviews with soldiers.

D-Day (PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/

Details the Allied invasion with special features, including GI letters.

Pearl Harbor Remembered

http://my.execpc.com/%7Edschaaf/mainmenu.html

A comprehensive Pearl Harbor website including remembrances of survivors, audio clips from CBS Radio and President Roosevelt.

US Navy's Pearl Harbor Website

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

Official battle description by the US Naval Historical Center.

Holocaust People and Events(PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/index.html

The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo

http://www.holocaustcenterbuff.com/

Here you will find general information on the Holocaust 1933-1945, as well as the written testimony of nineteen Holocaust Survivors who live in Western New York.

Holocaust Timeline(PBS)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/timeline/index.html

Museum of Tolerance Online Multimedia Learning Center

http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=358201

Comprehensive Holocaust site.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/

PBS link to biographies and memoirs of non-Jewish rescuers.

A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/people.htm

Holocaust   Information on victims, perpetrators, bystanders, resisters, rescuers, liberators, survivors and children.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.ushmm.org

This site  provides general and archival information on the Holocaust hosted by the Museum in Washington.

Home Front/Women on the Home Front

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/homefront-home.html

This site is filled with primary source documents demonstrating the impact of war.  You will be able to see and read diaries, letters, and memoirs and examine many other types of documents.

Scroll down the left side of the page and open the links in the last sections

“Rosie and Oral History” and “Other Resources” for information on women who worked in US factories as part of the war effort on the homefront.

 http://www.loc.gov/vets/

This is an amazing resource.  The site is filled with the stories of American soldiers.  The stories are told through drawing, letters, photographs and audio and video recordings.  Its a great resource for seeing how individuals were impacted by wartime. Includes a section on the men and women who served at home.

The Victory Home

http://tvh.bfn.org/metal.html

Information on scrap metal conservation

Women in World War II

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/WomenInWWII.html

Role of American women in WWII, including interviews.

WWII Female Production Workers

http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/redstone.html

 Japanese Internment

Children of the Camps

http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/index.html

PBS site- Japanese internment camps in US

Focus on children

http://www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/title.htm

A series of letters tells the story of young Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's World War II internment camps, illustrating how the commitment of a single person can profoundly touch the lives of so many people. This virtual exhibition contains a selection of letters, video and sound .

Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html

Details of the War Relocation Authority of 1943.

Journalists, Artists, etc.

They Drew Fire

http://www.pbs.org/theydrewfire/

PBS site- combat artists of WWII, including Bill Mauldin.

Women Come to the Front

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

Library of Congress site.  Women journalists on the front

Biographies of women journalists, photographers and broadcasters

About the Phoenix Indian School

http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/phoenix.htm

Article details life at a boarding school for Native Americans where children were taught to reject their own culture.

Navajo Code Talkers:  In Their Own Words

http://www.starbrightmediacorp.com/code.htm

Video Documentary with six original code talkers.

World War II Code Breakers, Espionage,  and Special Operations

http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIcodebreakers.htm

Recognizing the Navajo Code Talkers

http://www.logoi.com/notes/navajo_code_talkers.html

Prisoners of War

 Bataan Death March-A Survivor’s Story

http://www.bataansurvivor.com/content/the_bataan_death_march/1.php

Survivor Alf Larson recounts his personal experience during the brutal Bataan Death March and his time as a POW under brutal Japanese command.     

History on the Net – German Camps

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/german_pow_camps.htm

German POW camps

History on the Net – Japanese Camps

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/pow_camps_japan.htm

Japanese POW camps

 Never Forgotten

http://www.powtaiwan.org/men.html

The story of the Taiwan POW camps and the men who were interned in them.

The POW Stories

http://www.merkki.com/stories.htm

Stories of American servicemen held as prisoners of war in Germany.

World War II:  the Great Escape

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/great_escape.htm

Propaganda/Art

Dr. Seuss Went to War

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dswenttowar/

Political cartoons by Dr. Seuss

German Propaganda Archive

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa

Illustrations and text of actual children's picture book used for propaganda against Jews in Germany.

Goopy Geer’s Rare Cartoon Page

http://members.fortunecity.com/goopygeer2/

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck propaganda cartoons

Powers of Persuasion

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_intro.html

Poster art of WWII from the National Archives

World War II Color Pictures

http://go.to/acoloredww2

Collection of WWII photographs including aerial, naval, ground, propaganda, etc.

WWII Posters

http://www.library.northwestern.edu/otcgi/digilib/llscgi60.exe?QUERY=jpeg®ION=M8561Z&db=2&SIZE=10&SORTBY=M260C

WW II Propaganda, Cartoons, Films, Music and Art

http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm

Links for many sites containing information about WWII propaganda

Eyewitness to History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm

 “History through the eyes of those who lived it”

A variety of articles including “Inside a Nazi Death Camp, 1944”, “Sunk by a Submarine, 1944”, etc.

Frankel-y Speaking

http://www.frankel-y.com/

A memoir of the war in the South Pacific

The Good War and those who Refused to Fight It

PBS site

http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thegoodwar/

Conscientious objectors during WWII.

PT109 - JFK Library

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/John+F.+Kennedy+and+PT109.htm

Describes the destruction of the PT 109 skippered by John F Kennedy, the man who would become president.

Tuskegee Airmen

http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/tuskegee/airoverview.htm

An excellent overview of the Tuskegee Airmen produced by the National Park Service.

The Tuskegee Airmen 333rd Fighter Group

http://www.acepilots.com/usaaf_tusk.html

***Veterans History Project

 http://www.loc.gov/vets/

This is an amazing resource.  The site is filled with the stories of American soldiers.  The stories are told through drawing, letters, photographs and audio and video recordings.  It’s a great resource for seeing how individuals were impacted by wartime.

A World War II Diary in the Pacific

Diary of a seaman serving in the Pacific during WWII

World Leaders

Winston Churchill

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/winston_churchill.htm

Biography of  England’s Prime Minister.

Charles DeGaulle

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/charles_de_gaulle.htm

Biography of the French leader.

Adolf Hitler

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf_hitler.htm

Benito Mussolini

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWmussolini.htm

Comprehensive biography of the Italian dictator.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

PBS website about the president who led us through WWII.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/32_f_roosevelt/index.html

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/f_d_roosevelt.htm

Biography of American President FDR.

Josef Stalin

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_stalin.htm

Biography of the Communist Russian dictator.

Hideki Tojo

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hideki_tojo.htm

Biography of the Japanese Prime Minister.