Nations utilized the opportunity to use propaganda to help their causes in World War II. Propaganda, done right, can be quite useful.

Website focuses on the air war in World War II and the use of weapons such as bombers and fighters. The role of the paratrooper is also discussed.

Article focuses on weapons used in World War II on land such as small arms, rifles, submachine guns, hand grenades, flame throwers, machine guns, tanks, and the like.

Provides facts about the role of the Navy in World War II focusing on aircraft carriers, submarines, and small naval boats.

Pictorial history with captions of World War II spanning the years 1941-1942.

This site has the story of an anti-Nazi resistance movement in Germany during World War 2 written by one of the participants. Includes primary documents on the trials held after their capture.

Read about the bombing strategy of the RAF during World War II, but primarily at the end of the war and the bombing of Dresden.

This learning module gives students the opportunity to view and listen to hundreds of interviews with people who experienced first hand the Korean and First and Second world wars. This is an excellent teaching resource that helps...

This module uses excerpts from four presidential speeches delivered during World War ll as a means to instruct students about finding the central idea and supporting evidence in primary source documents.

Gives an excellent history of the sailing ships and sailors of the Merchant Marine in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Links on the page include many firsthand accounts of the sailors and their experiences during the war.

A historical essay by Peter Neary discusses the involvement and role of Newfoundland and Labrador during the Second World War.

Eve in Khaki is a short book written during the First World War which describes some of the new roles that women were taking on with the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). Take a look at these extracts from the book and think about how...

Discusses how America prepared for war, the impact on the work force in the United States, how women and other civilians supported the war effort, and how the war affected race relations.

An official Defense Department history of the US Army's campaign in Papua during 1942. The campaign was a failure but many lessons were learned by the American troops.

Ibiblio.org offers an official Defense Department history of the American campaign in new Guinea against the Japanese.

An account of the Battle for Berlin, which resulted in the death of Hitler and the end of World War Two in Europe.

Scanned images from a box of book pages about World War II. Find images of information leaflets on "the machines that were winning the war for us."

Two stories by reporter Will Irwin, correspondent from the New York Tribune, about how poisonous gases were used by the Germans during World War I.

Details what America did to prepare and execute its entry into World War I, and how the government used propaganda to win public support for the war effort.

World History unit on the years between the two world wars, 1919-1939. Comprehensive multi-media resources, assignments, activities and assessment.

This resource provides information and images about the liberation of Paris during World War II.

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize winner for literature but is not often mentioned today. He was a well known poet during World War I and inspired many soldiers on the front lines. This article begins with a letter from a mother...

A list and description of all commando raids that took place in and around Norway during World War 2. Participants in the raids were mostly British, Canadian and Norwegian.

From The War in the Pacific by Louis Morton read a thorough description of the main Japanese invasion of the Philippines during early WWII in the Pacific. This site discusses to great length the Main Landings on the Philippines by the...