US History WWII: Home

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Topics Worth Exploring:

• Holocaust
• Warfare (Allies/Axis)
• A-Bomb
• D-Day Invasion
• Stalingrad
• Western/Eastern Front
• Totalitarian Government
• War in the Pacific
• Home front
• Internment Camps
• Pearl Harbor
• Island Hopping
• Dunkirk
• Liberation of France
• Battle of Midway
• Propaganda
• Military Technology
• Rise and Fall of 3^rd Reich
• Nazi Eugenics
• Japan Empire
• Women and Minorities in the War Effort
• German Appeasement

The following is a list of websites that may be helpful in your research in addition to using the databases. This is not a comprehensive list so please feel free to search beyond these websites. Be sure to look at the resources linked in these websites as well. 

Encyclopedia of the Second World War

History.com

• Search for any World War II topic to find an overview of the event and various resources on the event. 

BBC Online: World War II

Best History Sites 

WWII Primary Sources

Primary Sources gathered from Yale

Truman Library - Decision to Drop the Bomb

• Documents detailing the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb

Documents Detailing the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb and Aftermath

• Scroll down to the middle of the page to find the linked documents. 

Nuremburg Trials - compiled by Harvard

• Examine trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers from the trials of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany. 

Historic Government Publications from WWII

• Includes publications on women's issues, children's issues, pocket guides, victory bulletins, etc. 

Our Documents

• 100 milestone documents from American history. 

EyeWitnessHistory.com

 

The Holocaust:

• The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students - Organized by theme, this learning site presents an overview of the Holocaust through historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and testimony clips.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Holocaustcenter.org - Web resources 

Internment Camps

• USHistory.org - Japanese American Internment
• Japanese Relocation During WWII 

The Atomic Bomb

• Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb
• History.net - Bomb that ended the War

D-Day Invasion

• National World War II Museum - D-Day Invasion
• Britannica Information

Stalingrad

• Nationalinterest.org
• The Battle of Stalingrad

War Technology

• Nationalinterest.org - 5 War technologies
• Science and Technology of WWII
• Technology that changed Warfare