Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Here Their Stories Will Be Told
Each Jewish community during WWII had its own individual story to tell. This online exhibit highlights 12 of these communities. Select a community and read about life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Testimony from survivors is...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Murder of Jews in Romania
Romania had a long history of anti-Semitism and was an ally of the Nazis. Around 400,000 Jews were killed in Romanian-controlled areas during the war. Read a summary on Romania during WWII and view primary sources such as photos,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Critical Reading as a Learning Strategy
This tutorial focuses on critical reading using a downloadable PowerPoint presentation, "Critical Reading 101," which includes separating fact from opinion, 6 propaganda techniques, and 6 common fallacies in reasoning. Also provided is...
Auburn University
Auburn University Archives: Rickenbacker Papers
"Historical Sketch of Eddie Rickenbacker." Includes information on his childhood, his involvement in WWI and WWII, and his life at home. Also includes webpages on his family.
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Constitutional Rights Foundation: Rules of War: Choices: Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb
Lesson and activity on rules of war and the decision to drop the atomic bomb during WWII.
Yale University
Yale Avalon Project: Radiation Injuries in Japan
Site from Yale provides detailed information about the radiation sickness that swept through the bombed areas of Japan after WWII. Detailed and thorough analysis.
Ohio State University
Osu History Teaching Institute: The Manhattan Project
Students will discuss the role of technology of the atomic bomb and explore the destruction of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during WWII. Students will then outline some of the social and political changes that resulted from the Manhattan Project.
Curated OER
Wwii Flight Nurse Attends a Wounded Soldier in Prestwick, Scotland, 1944
This brochure was printed to commemorate and capture the history of the Army Nurse Corps. Read about their amazing adventures in WWII while looking at pictures and learning amazing facts about these women.
Curated OER
Wwii Army Nurses at Work in the Postoperative Ward, Grandvillers, France, 1944
This brochure was printed to commemorate and capture the history of the Army Nurse Corps. Read about their amazing adventures in WWII while looking at pictures and learning amazing facts about these women.
TES Global
Blendspace: Wwii/holocaust Additional Resources
A learning module with thirty-three links to videos, websites, texts, and slideshows about the Holocaust.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Wwii Resources
A large site that provides links to various topics of WWII. For example: "Words of Peace, Words of War, Treaties, Declarations, Speeches, etc."; "Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941, Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign...
PBS
Pbs: Total War
An excellent site from PBS explores on a personal level what the concept of Total War means. Read and listen to interviews from people who lived through WWII.
Other
Db Trains: Epoch Iii (1945 1970)
This is a very interesting history of the development of trains in Germany after WWII. An aspect of history that is overlooked, rebuilding the transportation infrastructure in Germany was a big and important project for the occupying...
PBS
The War: Save Waste Fats for Explosives
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," view a poster from WWII aiming at recycling fat for ammunition.
Quia
Quia: Chronology of World War Ii Pacific
Quiz yourself on the chronological order of WWII battles in the Pacific.
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: The Women's Land Army and World War Ii Posters
In this instructional activity, learners look at some ways that women contributed to the war effort during WWII.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Fair Deal
Overview of the successful and failed domestic policies and social reforms of President Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal following WWII.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: War, Victory and the Bomb
Overview of the final stages of WWII in which war in the Pacific and the Atomic bomb lead to Japanese surrender and criminal trials against Nazi generals.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: George S. Patton Jr.
Provides information about George S. Patton and his leadership during WWII.
PBS
Pbs American Experience: Erwin Rommel (1891 1944)
This site is a brief biography of the military career of Erwin Rommel, the German Field Marshall during WWII.
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