This informational text gives a comprehensive summary of the causes, events, and conclusion of the World War II. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary notes are provided. This site offers links to paired texts, questions and...

This quiz focuses on the United States involvement during World War II.

A unit probing into the progressive development of women, minorities, and the poor as a result of World War II. Pore over documents and images, circumstances, probing questions to understand what might have caused the societal...

Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in American history from pre-European times until post-World War II.

A brief description of the course of World War II in both Europe and the Pacific. Read about the new technologies developed for the military by both the Allies and Axis powers, and find out about the millions who died as a result of the...

A quick comprehension check over the World War II military.

A quick comprehension check over mobilization in World War II.

During World War II American women took news jobs in the military and defense industry.

This assessment has you put events of World War II in chronological order.

In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, ending World War II.

Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the causes and consequences of historical events and international relations on a shift in U.S. foreign policy which eventually led to U.S. involvement in...

This activity has you put events of the end of World War II in chronological order.

After leading the United States through nearly a decade of Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took on the role of Commander-in-Chief when the United States entered the Second World War.

This quiz tests your knowledge about the beginning years of World War II.

See how the people at home stepped up to support the war effort in World War II.

Although Americans remained isolationist in their thinking, President Roosevelt understood that the European allies needed help against the Germans. Read about the incremental ways America became involved in World War II in Europe...

Take a true or false quiz on World War II.

Take this five-question quiz over parts of United States history between 1890-1945.

Learn how the end of World War II contributed to the rise of the Cold War.

Part of the excellent PBS site based on Joy Hakim's A History of US, this focuses on the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and the ramifications of the attack. You can access primary sources and photographs to bring this part of...

Unfounded fears that Japanese American citizens might sabotage the war effort led Franklin Delano Roosevelt to order that all Americans of Japanese descent be forced into internment camps.

Two hundred years' worth of American history all in one house. Learn what a close examination of a single-family dwelling can tell us about what life was like during five different periods of American history: the colonial era, the...

A quick comprehension check over interwar US foreign policy in World War II.

Read how the United Nations emerged after World War II as an international peacekeeping organization.