Photos collected from 1943 capture moments during World War II.

A visual diary includes 158 sketches by Lundy of his experiences in World War II in 1944. You can view these sketches via an excellent slideshow. Experiencing this diary really personalizes a soldier's life during the War.

This site has a timeline covering the years of 1941 (Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor) to 1945 (United Nations is born). Selected WWII battle photos are also included.

This extensive learning module examines the role of economic fluctuations in creating new demands on the government to design reforms and how the United States became a dominant military, political, cultural, and economic force in the...

Read about Harry Truman and his decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan which ultimately ended World War II.

Provides a description of the pre-war preparations in Holland as they prepare for the imminent German invasion.

This site provides a chart with photographs of tanks used in World War I along with descriptions.

Young scholars will learn about the role of baseball on the American homefront during World Wars I and II. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (during World War I) and President (during World War II), commented on the...

This is an illustrated essay from a weekly illustrated newspaper "Hamburger Illustrierte"(28 September 1940),pp.2-3. The essay discusses Churchill and the bombings of German cities during WWII.

Three 1937 reports speak to the potential problems of a Hitler-led Germany. Primary source documents, cartoons, and historical documents address the question, "Was Hitler a passionate lunatic?" in this series of performance tasks.

Essay describing life for the Jewish people living in German occupied Warsaw, Poland.

This resource provides the plot summary of and dialogue from To Have and Have Not.

This course of twenty-four college video lectures covers the emergence of modern France. Topics include the social, economic, and political transformation of France; the impact of France's revolutionary heritage, of industrialization,...

An article describing conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh ten years after the end of a bloody civil war in which Nagorno-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan. So far the country of Nagorno-Karabakh is unrecognized by the world's...

Two maps of English and French rivalries in North America, and two side-by-side accounts of the English and French perspectives on King William's war over power, trade, and economic dominance of the continent.