Mr. Gentry’s Western
Cultures Class Web Page
Pirate Success Academy
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on the links below for class information and links
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presented as a service of Mr. Gentry for his students and others who are
interested in the Western Cultures at West Carrollton Senior High School. It is
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Mr. Gentry at: dgentry@wcsd.k12.oh.us
For the week of June 3, 2002
Monday-Tuesday-
make sure that you have turned in all materials aand are ready to present your
group project
Wednesday-Thursday- Enjoy your summer
(click
on the unit to access assignments and notes)
Units of Study:
Unit
One Introduction to Western
Culture
Unit Two Scientific Revolution and the Age of
Enlightenment
Unit Three- The Age of Revolution/Focus
on the French Revolution
Unit Four The Industrial Revolution and New Currents of Thought
Unit Five Nationalism, The Age of Imperialism and
World War One
Chpt 24 The Development of Modern Nations
Chpt 25 Competition for Africa
Chpt 28 Causes of WWI/War and Peace
Unit Six The World
Between the Wars
Chapters
29 and 30
Chpt 31
Unit Eight - The World Since WWII
End of the year
final project
Note: An emphasis
will be made on the skills that are tested in the Ohio Graduation Test and
other State Assessments. Skills will be reinforced in all classes in the
Freshman Academy.
Western
Cultures History Links-
These are listed in
the order that we are covering them this year
Online
encyclopedia Britannica
Blank
outline maps for studying
Middle
Ages resources (a list)
CIA World Fact
Book (countries)
Western
culture site from ancient to modern
Smithsonian
tour- origins of Western Culture
The
Age of exploration- from the Mariner’s Museum
Stories from The French Revolution
Industrial rev.- Samual Slater
Child Labor- Industrial revolution
The American Industrial Revolution
The Industrial rev.- texts and archives
German
unification –college level text article
German
unification article- college level
German Unification-
just what you should know
Some
speeches from the Italian unification
Italian
Unification- an overview
Imperialism in Africa-overview and maps
The
Russian revolution-an overview
Historynet- history journal online
WWII links search (a starting place)
WWII
and cold war- an overview
World War II
Pictures (from the National Archives
After
the Cold War in Europe-an overview
World Wars
- 20th century interactive - BBC covers Treaty of Versailles, Russian Revolution, Stalin, Propaganda, The road to war, Nazi Germany, Hitler's rise to power, Wall street crash of 1929, allied victory
- A-Bomb Museum
- Aces - World War I, their country and their "kills"
- American Ex - Prisoners of War - a congresionally chartered non-profit organization The American Ex-Prisoners of War organization is a national organization for American citizens who were captured by the enemy. At the present time, the American Ex-Prisoners of War has over 300 Chapters and State Departments, representing over 30,000 members.
- Armenian massacre of WWI 1915 - a major act of genocide
- Atomic Bomb
- Atomic Bomb Exhibit From the Library of Congress
- ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION (Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
- Atomic Physics Link
- Atomic/Nuclear
bomb links - over 1000
- Atomic
Archive History and Physics of Atomic Age. Biographies Arms control
treaties, fussion, fission etc...Most extensive site for data, videos,
primary source documents, maps, pictures, and activities on the internet.
- Atomic
Bomb -- Truman's Decision
- Atomic Bomb: Decision -- Official
Bombing Order, July 25, 1945
- Atomic Bomb:
Decision -- Target Committee, May 10-11, 1945
- ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION (Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
- Edward Teller - Father of the Hydrogen bomb , a great multimedia biography
- Fat Man/Little Boy
- extensive site that has specifications, development and impact
- Little Boy - the birth of
- Hiroshima - ground zero
- Nuclear Test Images - Images of bombs that were dropped from Trinity to 1962 - from Atomic Archive site. Includes tonage of each of the bombs
- Nuclear
weapons - a guide to
- Testimony
on the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Trinity Web: Part I - First Atomic bomb dropped. Seattle Times report following the 50th anniversary
- Trinity - a
time line
- Truman
tells Stalin about the A-Bomb
- Atomic Bomb- The Decision to Drop
- Atomic Bomb - data about the bombs as well as information on fussion and fission. Slide Show
- Oppenheimer - a biography
of Robert Oppenheimer
- Australians
during WWI
- Austria - the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire WWI
- Begium and other countries during World War I
- British - a
superb WWI site focussing on British and Imperial involvement during World
War I
- Bulgaria - the collapse of during and after WWI
- Causualties - World War I
- Casulalties - all wars of the 20th Century
- Chronology
of World History: Military 1
- Cuban Missle Crisis, 1962 Chronology and exceprts from executive meetings during the crisis from the Cold War
- Cybrary of the
Holocaust
- Cold War timeline
- D-Day - Six long Days on Omaha beach
- Deaths - 1.The Big Four: World Wars 1 & 2, China and Russia. 2.The body count (probably) exceeds that of the American Civil War (620,000). 3.The body count is below that of the Civil War, but more than five years of murder in America 119,700). 4.Below 5 years of murder in America, but more than the American losses in Vietnam (58,135). 5.Below Vietnam, but greater than a typical recent year of murders in America (21,597). 6.Below that. Century Total Before the 20th Century
- Death for events of the 20th Century - Alphabetical listing of deaths of wars world wide
- Death and overview of results of corrupted power during the 20th Century - a site by Rummel based on his works and includes many tables and figures as well as his excellent insight.
- Documents from World War II - very long list of documents that is hypertexted where documents can be read
- Doughboy Center - American involvement in WWI
- Dr. Suess goes to war - in cartoons. Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons UCSD's Mandeville Special Collections Library presents a gallery of political cartoons created by children's author, illustrator, and lifelong cartoonist Theodor Seuss Geisel. During the war years of 1941-1943, Seuss served as editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper "PM," and his patriotic "war bond" cartoons appeared in many other newspapers as well. Hundreds of high-quality scanned images from the original clippings can be viewed and printed easily. Although the subject matter here is hardly light-hearted, and some of the wartime ethnic stereotyping may be a bit disconcerting, you're sure to spot some familiar-looking felines and other remarkably Seussian creatures in unfamiliar settings.
- Enigma
- How the Enigma Works Secrets of the code of the Nazis. Graphics
include picture and diagram of the enigma
- (The Eternal Jew) Stills and Narration from 'Der ewige Jude' - German propaganda film
- France - The organization that maintains the war graves from World War I. This site is a french site but available in English
- Gas warfare in WWI
- Germany
Naval Impact during World War I -
- German
Propaganda Archive (Guide Page)
- German
propaganda -Der Giftpilz or "The Toadstool" pictures and quotes
from this notoious book used by the Nazis to influence its people on the
Jewish question
- German
Propaganda against Jews -Der Ewige Jew Poster
- German WW II Propaganda Posters -Lots of them first in thumb nail size that can be accessed. Wonderful representation of all the posters
- Germany - last push of World War I and the collapse of the German Empire
- Great War Society 1914-1918
- The Great War - World War I
- The Great War - a site by PBS that has a timeline and details about the trenches
- German and Austro-Hungarian Internment during WWI -
- History Place-World War Two in Europe Timeline
- Hitler and Mussolini Meet
- Hitler - A Psychological Analysis done in 1944
- Hydrogen bomb - Edward Teller - Father of the Hydrogen bomb , a great multimedia biography
- Imperialism - Warfare during the 1800's or the Impact of Modern Warfare on Imperialism in Africa
- Influenza
- The flu outbreak of 1918 following WW I
- JAPANESE SURRENDER DOCUMENTS
- Japanese War Crime trials - A 1996 history net feature article. By Robert Barr Smith, a retired Army colonel and a professor of law at theUniversity of Oklahoma
- Japanese Atrocities - a listing of documents and first hand accounts of comfort women, Nanjing, Battan death march and other artocities against the Chinese.
- Japanese artrocities:50 years later- crimal warfare, atrocities from a Chinese maintianed site
- Japanese March on Batan - Railroad of death. Sketches made by some of the Allied prisoners
- Laws of War - from the early 1800 includes Geneva Convention and much more maybe over 40 documents
- League of Nations - a map showing members and when they joined and left
- Lily (Lili) Marlane - WW I song the words in both English and German
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Maps
- PBS WWI Interactive site - has maps with flags on the maps for Britain, Russia, Dual-Monarchy, France, Turkey (Ottoman Empire) as well as names of Generals and many of the battle plans. You must take the tour and look at this site and not just flash in and out.
- World War II
maps
- Military history By time period Ancient, Medieval, etc.. then by specific battle. Excellent details and primary source documents. Display of issues such as security and challenges for war.
- Military History - Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, naval history by specific battles
- Neville Chamberlain Kisses Butt ( World War II prelude)
- The Nuremburg War Crimes Trial- A full listing of all documents
- Nuclear History at the National Security Archive: Links to Atomic development and results such as the Cuban missile crisis and other cold war events.
- Oryoku Maru Story - World War II - The Oryoku Maru Story and a searchable list of POWs who were aboard the ship that left the Phillipines filled with US POW traveling to Japan. This is a wonderfully drafted and very dramatic site done by the granddaughter of Othello Bruun who died in December 1944, on the Oryoku Maru. Please visit this site if you are interested in the contributions of Americans in war.
- Ottoman Empire history and links - listing of sultans and other history
- Ottoman Empire -
- Ottoman History - not much military history but details about the development and the demise of the Ottomans
- Pearl Harbor
- Pearl Harbor -
- Pearl Harbor Remembered- list of causualties, Memorial and historical information about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Includes casualty lists, maps, photographs, a timeline, and information on visiting the memorial.
- Pearl Harbor - personal accounts
- Pearl
Harbor Revisited -a site with maps, timelines and sounds of Pearl
Harbor
- Planes and Pilots of WWI
- Posters of WWII
- Prisoners of War - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I - includes personal accounts, a secret newspaper, and great insight into what it meant to be a prisoner of war., specifically at Stalag Luft I. It contains photos, stories, the secret camp newspaper, official military intelligence documents, news clippings, etc.
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - 1st FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS in text and audio ...."There is nothing to fear but fear itself"
- Russian Military Uniforms up to 1917
- Russia Navy - Includes the great war but begins with Kievan Rus
- Russia steals the atomic bomb secrets - has some accounts from negotiations at Potsdam then on to the late 1940's
- Serbia - Kingdom of the Serbs - 1919 - creation of Yuogslavia and the Treaty of Corfu
- Stalin - Pictures and data
- Top Secret - links to pages that reveal information about dissenformation, enigma, code breaking during WWII
- Treaty of Versailles - extensive details of all the provisions
- Trenches on the Web-Armory
- Trenches on the Web-Fractal Gallery
- Trenches on the Web-Trench Search - Use this to search the Trenches on the Web site.
- Trenches on the Web-World War I Posters
- TrenchWarfare
- Trenches-Life
in the
- Trench
System
- Trinity
Web: Part I - First Atomic bomb dropped. Seattle Times report
following the 50th anniversary
- Truman
tells Stalin about the A-Bomb
- Truman - Project WhistleStop - Offical Truman site
- Turkey - collapse of the Ottoman Empire World War I
- U- Boat war
- United Nations - preamble and organization
- USA loses
to all wars
- World History Chart
- World
Wars-A Comparison
- WAR - Neolithic Warfare to present day. Different types of battle techniques plus weaponary and armor, uniforms American Revolution and Civil War includes Hiroshima and Vietnam
- Weapons - from the Thirty Years War but the beginning of modern warfare
- World War I - go
here for much more extensive links
- Aces of
WWI -
- Airplanes
by country
- Archduke
Ferdinand
- Armies sizes
- Asquith,
Herbert - Prime Minister of England
- Austria - the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire WWI
- Austria - Hungary in 1914 - troop strength and leaders etc...
- Austr0-Hungarian troop strength and infanty totals throughout WWI -
- Begium and other countries during World War I
- Big Guns of the Great War
- British - a superb WWI site focussing on British and Imperial involvement during World War I
- British home front -
- Britain in
1914 - has troop strength and strategy plus leaders
- Bulgaria - the collapse of during and after WWI
- Battle Summaries and maps
- Battles of War outline
- Belgium in World War I
- Big Bertha
- Browning machine gun
- Causes
- Causes and events leading to war
- Causes, events, troop strengths and much much more
- Causes of World War I from the Balkan perspective -
- Causualties - World War I
- Causualties
- censored pictures
- Chronology
- Clorine gas
- Code and Conduct of the great WAR
- Cost of war by country
- Documents Documents, image achieves and links to other sites.
- DocumentArchive
- Documents - over 500 letters, treaties and speeches
- Doughboy Center - American involvement in WWI
- Dreadnaught
- Encyclopedia -
- War in the Air / Life in the Trenches/ Political Leaders/ Military Leaders / The Home Front / Weapons & War Machines / Issues and Events / Inventors and Scientists / War at Sea / Military Tactics / Famous Battles/ /Soldiers / Places / Statistics/ Greece
- Finacial loses of the war
- Folker Information
- French in World War I - has troop strength, leaders etc...
- Gas warfare in WWI
- George, David Lloyd of England -
- German and Austro-Hungarian Internment during WWI -
- German army strength -
- Germany in 1914 -
- Influenza - The flu outbreak of 1918 following WW I
- Italy in World War I
- Loses - have to go to the bottom of the document
- Mata
Hari - Zelle, Margaretha Geetruida - (1876-1917)
- music on the web
- mustard gas
- Naval History - takes
you to the world war I links
- No man's land
- (Ottoman
Empire in WWI)Turkey -
- photographs
- Posters - British posters of World War I
- Pictures -
Forbidden pictures of WWI, very graphic
- Planes and Pilots of WWI
- Rats in the Trenchs
- Richthofen, Manfred von - The Red Baron
- Russian Military Uniforms up to 1917
- Russia during WWI - has troop strength leaders etc...
- Sea War - figures of battle ships and loses
- Serbia - leaders of during WWI
- Serbian King Peter -
- soldier's leters
- Songs of WWI - 181 songs with words and music
- Statistics
of the war - casualities and other loses
- Text - about WWI data was imported from Britania online
- Treaty of Versailles - extensive details of all the provisions
- Trenches on the Web-Armory
- Trenches on the Web-Fractal Gallery
- Trenches on the Web-Trench Search - Use this to search the Trenches on the Web site.
- Trenches on the Web-World War I Posters
- TrenchWarfare
- Trenches-Life
in the
- Trench
System
- Trench foot
- Triple Alliance - strengths and weaknesses includes a great map
- Troop and Naval Strength for 10 countries
- Turkey - collapse of the Ottoman Empire World War I
- Turkey (Ottoman Empire in WWI) -
- Timeline
- Turkish Army pictures during World War I
- U- Boat war
- Uniforms of World War I
- Uniforms of World War I - 47 pictures with some descriptions of French, Belguim, US< British, Turkish, Russian, German, Italian, Serbian uniforms during World War I
- USA loses
- USA loses to all wars
- War to end all wars - has lots of costs figures both in money and deaths and causualties
- World
War I
- WW I
- Warships lost
- World Ship loses
- Zimmerman Telegraph
World War II
Africa Campaigns
- Algeria - French Morocco, 1942
- North Africa - Tunisia 1942-1943
- Egypt and Libya 1942-1943
- Airplanes Of The Second World War
- Allied Agony At Anzio
- American Aircraft Of World War II
- American Combat Aircraft Of WWII
- The Atom Bomb
- Atomic Bomb
- Atomic Bomb: Decision
- African American Troops In World War II
- Against All Odds
- The Air Offensive Against Japan
- Airplanes Of The Second World War
- American Combat Aircraft Of World War II
- American Volunteer Group - Flying Tigers
- Arsenal Of Dictatorship
- Attack On Pearl Harbor (Another Site)
- Attack On Pearl Harbor (Another Site)
- Auschwitz/Birkenau
- B-17
- B-24
- B-24 From Wendling
- Balkan Campaigns
- Bataan Death March
- Battle Of Arnhem
- Battle Of Britain
- The Battle Of The Bulge (Another Site)
- Battle Of Kursh
- Battle Of Monte Cassino
- Battleship Arizona
- Battleship Row
- The Bismarck
- The Bomb Is Born
- The Bomb That Ended World War II
- Omar Bradley
- Buffalo Soldiers - Assault On The Gothic Line
- Camp Harmony Internment Camp
- The Capture Of The Enigma Machine
- Winston Churchill
- Chronology - Not just a listing but links to everything that pertained to the subjects
- 1889 - 1930 - includes overview of Hitler.
- 1931-38 - Both Germany and Japan
- 1939 - Month by month includes civilian actions as well as military. Audio of Chamberlins declaration of war from September 1939
- 1940- Month by month includes civilian actions as well as military.
- 1941- Month by month includes civilian actions as well as military.
- 1942- Month by month includes civilian actions as well as military.
- 1943- Month by month includes civilian actions as well as military.
- 1944- Month by month includes civilian actions as well as military.
- 1945- Month by month includes civilian actions as well as military.
- Battle Of Britain
- Neville Chamberlain
- Churchill, Winston
- D Day
- D-Day's Mighty Host
- Day Of Infamy
- December 7: Today In History
- Decision To Evacuate The Japanese From The Pacific Coast
- Charles DeGaulle
- Desparate Hours On Omaha Beach
- Developments In Air Warfare
- Developments In Naval Warfare
- Doolittle's Daring Raid
- Driving For Victory Against Japan
- The Drop Zone Museum
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Engendering Consent: World War II Posters And The Home Front
- El Alemain
- Enola Gay
- Enola Gay And The Atomic Bomb
- Evolution Of Aircraft Carriers
- European Campaign
- Air Attack on Taranto - in 1940 Royal Navy torpedo planes attacked and crippled the Italian fleet as it lay at anchor in Taranto.
- Battle of Kursk - the greatest armored battle of World War II lasted from July 1-13, 1943. Both the Germans and the victorious Russians suffered exceptionally heavy losses.
- Battle of Monte Cassino - consisted of four different battles fought over five months in 1944.
- Battle of Mount Froid - French Alps, upper Maurienne, Savoie, April 1945 - fought by the 4th company, 6th Chasseurs Alpins battalion.
- Bigonville 1940-1945 - history of a little village in Luxembourg during W.W.II. Dedicated to the 4th Armored Division and 26th Infantry Division.
- Failures of Historiography: Forgotten Battles of the German-Soviet War (1941-1945) - essay from David M. Glantz of the US Army Foreign Military Studies Office.
- Jared's World War II - about the battles, lifes, and dates of some of the happenings during World War II.
- North African Campaign - current and archival photographs from Libya and Libyan Campaign of WWII.
- Panzer War - information on the german army in World War II including documents, order of battle, chronology information and more. Focusing on the eastern front.
- Polish Campaign 1939 - Wehrmacht and Polish Army comparision including descriptions of equipment, industry, strategy and economics description.
- Waiting Underground - Plymouth Air Raids UK - about underground air raid shelters, the blitz, D-Day and the home guard.
- World War II in Ukraine
- Eye Witness - Attack At Pearl Harbor
- Eye Witness - The Nazi Occupation Of Poland
- Famous Germans During World War II
- Fall Of The Weimar Republic
- German Invasion Of Holland, Belgium, And France
- German Invasion Of Poland, Denmark, And Norway
- German Invasion Of U.S.S.R.
- German Republic Collapses
- Hitler
- Rise Of Adolf Hitler
- Italy
- Pantelleria - Sicily 1943-1944
- Italy Surrenders - Naples Foggia 1943-1944
- Ploesti, Rumania - 1 August 1943
- Ploesti mission details
- Italy Invaded
- Escort from Italy
- Rome Liberated
- Northern Italy - 1945
- Iwo Jima
- Mein Kampf
- Mediterranean Operations
- Mein Kampf
- Memphis Belle
- Military Aircraft Database
- Military History - World War II
Naval History -
- Modest Victory Of Midway
- The Munich Pact
- Benito Mussolini
- Henri Philippe Petain
- The Rape Of Nanking
- Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Stalin (Another Site)
- The Thirties In Print
- To War Or Not To War
- World War II Diplomatic History
- D-Day - Six long Days on Omaha beach
- Documents from World War II - very long list of documents that is hypertexted where documents can be read
- Commemoration Encyclopedia Americana's
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano - 1st FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS in text and audio ...."There is nothing to fear but fear itself"
- Greatest Battle in History
- German Armed forces maps
- Italy - Italy & the Pacific, The 'Forgotten' Campaigns of WWII - includes personal accounts, combat photos, info, weapons, aircraft, and roll of honor.
- Links to veterans actual accounts, soviet red army accounts and much more
- Maps Omaha Beach allied attack plan World War II Essay
- Maps of World War II
- Oryoku Maru Story - World War II - The Oryoku Maru Story and a searchable list of POWs who were aboard the ship that left the Phillipines filled with US POW traveling to Japan. This is a wonderfully drafted and very dramatic site done by the granddaughter of Othello Bruun who died in December 1944, on the Oryoku Maru. Please visit this site if you are interested in the contributions of Americans in war.
- Pacific Campaign
- Battle of Guadalcanal (4)
- Battle of Midway (4)
- Battle of the Philippines (6)
- Burma Campaign - concerning the longest campaign fought by the British in the Second World War.
- Carrier Battles in the Pacific 1942 - between the US and Japan. Including Coral Sea, Midway, Eastern Solomons, and Santa Cruz.
- Iwo Jima - February through March, 1945.
- Japanese Surrender Documents
- Naval Air War In The Pacific - includes photos, paintings, and text covering the men, aircraft, carriers, tactics, and battles.
- Northern Mariana Islands and World War II - with a review of the role of Tinan, the atomic bomb and the loss of the U.S.S. Indianapolis.
- Pearl Harbor (11)
- Scott' World War Two - pictures of the war in the Pacific. Stories of battles, ships, planes and etc.
- Strategic Bombing Campaign in the Pacific Theater (2)
- U.S. Air Offensive from Saipan and Tinian - including fighter and fighter-bomber missions, and B-29 bombing offensive against Japan.
- USS Enterprise (CV-6)@
- USS Indianapolis (CA-35) - struck by torpedos in 1945, many of its crew were lost to shark attacks. This site seeks to clear Captain McVay, the only U.S. ship's captain court-martialed for service in WWII.
- War in the Pacific - US marines in WWII - including the invasions of Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima. US Navy Battles at Midway and Coral Sea.
- World War 2 in the Pacific - archive of information.
- World War II in the Pacific - events 1937-1945. Sounds, pictures and movies. In French and English.
- World War II Research in Kodiak Alaska - documentation and research about structures and activities taking place during World War II.
- WWII In The Pacific - battles in the Pacific including Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Japan, Guam and others.
- Patton's plan for winning the war
- Pearl Harbor
- Pearl Harbor -
- Pearl Harbor - personal accounts
- Pearl Harbor Remembered- list of causualties, Memorial and historical information about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Includes casualty lists, maps, photographs, a timeline, and information on visiting the memorial.
- Pearl Harbor Revisited -a site with maps, timelines and sounds of Pearl Harbor
- Pearl Harbor Senate Investigation - Official reports and documents relating to the congressional hearings held to investigate the Pearl Harbor attack. Includes the report of the Joint Congressional Committee and eight other investigations.
- Pearl Harbor attack map-
- Pictues of WWII - from the National Archives
- Pictures of WWII- very graphic
- Posters of WW II
- Posters: Power of Persuasion
- Posters - great site, postes listed and load quickly
- Posters at US government site
- Schwarzkopf, Norman - Commander in Chief of Desert Storm forces
- Sounds & Pictures
Page from EarthStation1
- Timeline
in the Pacific
- USA loses to all wars
- Wiesel, Elie
- holocaust victim and author , Nobel Prize for Peace
- World at War 1889-1931
- WORLD WAR II
- World War II
- World War II (Another Site)
- World War II (Another Site)
- World War II (Another Site)
- World War II (Another Site)
- World War II (Another Site)
- World War II Aces And Planes Page
- World War II Aircraft
- World War II Analyzed
- World War II - An American Scrapbook
- World War II Archive
- World War II Aviation
- World War II Casualities
- World War II Commemoration
- World War II History Of 104th Infantry Division
- World War II: The Homefront
- World War II - Hopefully The Last Great War
- World War II In The Ukraine
- World War II Oral History Web Site
- World War II On The Web
- World War II On The Web (Another Site)
- World War II Photo Gallery
- World War II Picture Archive
- World War II: Powers Of Persuasion
- World War II Propaganda Posters
- World War II Retrospective
- World War II Special Section
- World War II Tanks
- World War II
Theaters
- World War II on the Web
- Word from the Ghetto - a newsweek account of the what was happening in Warsaw early in the war
- World War - Newsweek site that has great insight and lots of specific data. Includes information about the Holocaust
- World
War II
- War links - History And Social Studies Curriculum Framework Index - many links to world wars
PRIMARY
DOCUMENTS
Taken from a the following websight:
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIDocs.htm
The Avalon Project :
World War II Documents
Documents For The
Study Of American History - check out the sections on "Between the
Wars" as well as the WWII section.
HyperWar: Diplomatic
and Political Documents of WWII
Government Publications from WWII
Speeches by Franklin
D. Roosevelt
The Speeches of
Winston Churchill
Quotes - Winston
Churchill
Conferences of
WWII
The Avalon
Project: Conferences During World War II
The Avalon
Project : A Decade of American Foreign Policy 1941-1949
Military Resources:
World War II
Prisoners of
War/Missing in Action
The United States Navy
in WWII: Primary Source Documents
Washington Conferences
(1921 - 1922)
The Geneva Protocol of 1925
Roerich
Pact: Protection of Artistic & Scientific Institutions & Historical
Monuments, 1935
German-Japanese
Agreement and Supplementary Protocol, Signed at Berlin, Nov. 1936
THE NEUTRALITY
ACT OF 1937
U.S. Historical Documents
Archive -- The Neutrality Act of 1937
Speeches by
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Quarantine the Aggressor, 1937
The Avalon
Project : The Munich Agreement - Documents
The Avalon
Project : Munich Pact 9/29/38
Neville
Chamberlain, Peace in Our Time
1939
US Neutrality Act
Einstein's letter to Roosevelt,
August 2, 1939
Treaty of
Non-Aggression between Germany and the U.S.S.R. August 23, 1939
The Avalon Project
: Germany's Invasion of Poland
1939
France's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland
1939
Britain's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland
1939
Germany's Invasion of Poland Response To Great Britain's Ultimatum
The Avalon
Project : Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941
1939-45:
Soviet-Japanese Neutrality and Denunciation
The Avalon Project
: Franco-German Armistice : June 25, 1940
1940
Ogdensburg Agreement On Hemispheric Defense
The Avalon
Project : Summary of the Three-Power Pact Between Germany, Italy, and Japan,
Sept. 1940
Speeches by
FDR: The Arsenal of Democracy, 1940
The Avalon Project
: Tripartite Pact and Associated Documents
The
Avalon Project : The British Bluebook
FDR,
The "Four Freedoms" Address to Congress, Jan. 6, 1941
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The
Four Freedoms
1941
US Lend Lease Act March 11, 1941
The Atlantic
Charter, August 14, 1941
1941
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
FDR's "A
date which will live in infamy" speech before Congress, Dec. 8
December
8, 1941 US Congress Declaration of War on Japan
1941
US Congress Declaration of War on Germany December 11, 1941
Report
of the Secretary of the Navy to the President on Pearl Harbor
The Avalon
Project : Declarations of a State of War with Japan, Germany, & Italy
The Avalon
Project : The Washington Conference 1941-1942
WRA
Exhibit -- Text of Executive Order No. 9066 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, February 19,
1942 - authorizing Japanese Internment Camps. More info on Internment Camps
in America can be found HERE.
Master
Lend-Lease Agreement, February 23, 1942
The Quebec
Conference between FDR and Churchill(Aug. 17-24, 1943)
CASABLANCA
CONFERENCE, Feb. 12, 1943
CASABLANCA
CONFERENCE COMMUNIQUÉ
CAIRO CONFERENCE,
November 1943
PRIMARY DOCUMENT:
The Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945
ASSUMPTION
OF POWER BY DOENITZ, MAY 1, 1945
The Berlin
(Potsdam) Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945
1945
Allies and Germany WWII Surrender Documents
German Surrender Documents
of WWII
The Avalon Project :
Japanese Surrender Documents
The Japanese
Surrender Document
Emperor
Hirohito's Receipt of the Surrender
DOCUMENTS RELATING
TO THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
United States Strategic Bombing
Survey: Summary Report(European War)
United States Strategic Bombing
Survey: Summary Report(Pacific War)
Featured
Document: The Marshall Plan
Marshall
Plan Folders
Records and Research Relating to
Holocaust-Era Assets - more primary documents on the Holocaust available on
my Hitler and Holocaust pages.
The International
Military Tribunal(Nuremberg)
NARA: War Crimes
IMAGES &
PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE WAR
World War II Photo / Contact Gallery
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library & Museum: Photos of World War II
Generally Speaking-S/Sgt
Bill Heller - Photos
Color Photographs
from the FSA and OWI Home Page
EarthStation1.com - The
WWII Sounds & Pictures Page
Pictures of World War
II
World War II
Timeline pictures
A
sample high school history site
Some
lessons and documents from the National Archives
American Rock video, audio and transcripts
Geo
surveys from around the world
UK
Parliament Bills under consideration
European Union Website
Civil War and Reconstruction Index
UAW history page (auto industry union)
Historynet- history journal online
Library of Congress Country Studies
CIA World Fact Book (countries)
The National Geographic Society