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		World War II - Overview European/African Theaters Pacific Theater Homefront Technology Holocaust Homefront African American Sites - Library of Congress Web Guide After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor The American Experience The Battle over Citizen Kane Eleanor Roosevelt - Companion to the PBS series. Contains timeline, maps of her South Pacific tour and copies of her newspaper columns. Fly Girls - Companion to the PBS series about women pilots of World War II. Zoot Suit Riots - Companion to the PBS series about the Los Angeles riots in 1942. Contains information about zoot suits and the culture behind the people who war them. It was first an African American fashion, but soon Mexican Americans started to wear them also to rebel and to assert themselves. American Cultural History - Decade 1940 - 1949 American Popular Music 1900 to 1950 Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese American Internment at Manzanar Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom He was one America's leading political artists during World War II, when he produced hundreds of anti-Axis illustrations and cartoons in aid of the Allied war effort. Throughout his career he created art in the service of human rights and civil liberties -- in his native Poland, in Paris where he was trained during the 1920s, and in America, the country he adopted in 1940. At Home in a Century of Progress? 1920-1950 Project of the Illinois State Museum to show life in the heartland. Bill of Rights in Action: Wartime and the Bill of Rights: The Korematsu Case Bissonnette on Costume Digital History Casablanca as Wartime Propaganda Explorations - Children and World War II A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss Children of the Camps Children of the Camps: Japanese American WWII Internment Camp Experience Citizenship Rights and Race Coupons and Counterfeits: World War II and the U.S. Black Market CPL Chicago: 1941-1945 World War II Densho: the Japanese American Legacy Project Did World War II Advance Minorities, Women, and the Poor? Discrimination in United States History Dr. Seuss Went to War Educate Yourself - Advertising in the 1940s Educate Yourself - Wall Street and World War II Evacuation and Internment of San Francisco Japanese Evelyn Slayman, WAVE Exploring the Japanese American Internment Fashions of the 1920s, 30s, 40s FDR, A. Philip Randolph and the Desegregation of the Defense Industry Fighters on the Farmfront Home Oregon State Archives site that commemorates the state's Emergency Farm Labor Service, a program to ensure an adequate farm labor supply during World War II and the years immediately after. Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt Read the text of FDR's fireside chats. Freedom's Fortress and the Library of Congress From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History Goin' to Chicago History Now: Immigration History of the Selective Service System Mostly deals with Vietnam Conflict, but does contain information about the draft during WWII. A History of Victory Gardens Homefront America in World War II DBQ The Human Machinery of War: Diability on the Front Lines and the Factory Floor Ideologies in Comparative Perspective: Reflections on Nazi Germany and the Pro-Slavery South Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project Japanese American Internment Japanese-American Internment Japanese American Internment Camps Japanese American National Museum Japanese Internment Resources July 1942: United We Stand A More Perfect Union NARA \| Digital Classroom \| Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art of WW II NARA lesson plan using the Archive's collection of WWII posters. NARA \| Digital Classroom \| Japanese Relocation During World War II New York Shipbuilding Company Historical Site Ongoing Search for Mrs. Gertrude Tompkins, WASP PBS: Goin' to Chicago PBS: The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It Phyllis Schneider, WAVE Posters from the WPA P.O.V. - Rabbit in the Moon Companion Web site to "Rabbit in the Moon," a documentary about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Powers of Persuasion Produce for Victory Prop 8, Jim Crow, Nuremberg and Other Unjust Laws Propaganda: The Disease of Contagious Hate Radio History: 1941 Recruiting Posters for Women from World War II Rosie the Riveter Rosie the Riveter - WWII Home Front National Historical Park San Francisco's World War II Chronology The Service Flag of the United States Sites of Shame "Suffering Under a Great Injustice" Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar Collection of photographs by Ansel Adams of Japanese-American Internment at the Manzanar Camp, from the Library of Congress collection. This is the Enemy War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946 University of Arizona site chronicling the Japanese American internment. War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement War Relocation Camps in Arizona 1942-1945 Wartime Internment Camps Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodore Horydczak, 1923-1959 WASP WWII Home Page Interesting site dedicated to the Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII. What did you do in the war, Grandma? An Oral History of Rhode Island Women during World War II written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School Who Was Rosie the Riveter? Why Did Soldiers Make M&Ms a National Institution? Within These Walls: Victory Garden Women Airforce Service Pilots - Remembered By Those Who Knew Them Women Played Key Roles in the Manhattan Project US Army Corps of Engineers site; includes link to 46 other historical vignettes. Women at War Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville Alabama site commemorating the female "production soldiers" during WWII. Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950 Words at War World War II Era Radio Drama and the Post War Broadcasting Industry Blacklist World War Two Advertising History [Ad*Access] World War II: Homefront World War II: The Homefront World War II Homefront Primary Source Packet World War II Posters World War II Poster Collection from Northwestern University Library Contains 337 posters. World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area Yeomanettes and WAVES: The First Female Sailors YouTube - Disney Education for Death - WWII Cartoon Propaganda A Disney made, anti-nazi propaganda film from 1945 aimed at school children. 67th WAAC Detachment Technology Aeroclassics.Net American Airpower Heritage Museum American Experience: Partners of the Heart Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima This article is the eyewitness account of Father Siemes, a German priest who witnessed the post bombing rescue efforts, as told to Bishop Franklin Corley, a US soldier. Atomic Bombs Atomic Bomb Museum The Avalon Project: The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagisaki Bill of Rights in Action - Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb Debating the American Decision to Drop the Atomic Bombs The Decision to Drop the Bomb A WebQuest in which students represent a Japanese citizen, President Truman's advisor, the Secretary of Defense, or a nuclear physicist at a town meeting to discus the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Contains resources for each personality. Dewy's Toughest Campaign Did You Know: Women Played Key Roles in the Manhattan Project? Digital History Resource Guide: The Atomic Age Documents Relating to the Development of the Atomic Bomb and Its use on Hiroshima The Enola Gay Controversy Fifty Years from Trinity SeattleTimes site marking the 50th anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion; provides a rich source of information and links for anyone interested in the development of the nuclear age. Hiro's Home Page Contains information on the damage in Hiroshima. Created by a resident of the city Hiroshima Hiroshima Archive Contains a very powerful Photographic Gallery as well as extensive list of links. Hiroshima: Harry Truman on Trial Hiroshima International Council for Health Care of the Radiation-exposed (HICARE) This site describes the atomic bomb's effects on humans in terms of long-term health and physical condition. Hiroshima and Nagasaki Very interesting and extensive collection. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Hiroshima Peace Site Click on the English button in the upper right for the English version of the site. Hiroshima: Was It Necessary? The Atomic Bombing of Japan This site contains comentary and diary resources surrounding the controversy over the necessity of bombing Hiroshima. Hiroshima: What People Think Now Information on the Manhattan Project Manhattan Project & the Bomb Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association This site's purpose is to keep the Manhattan Project alive. The organization also has resources for students. National Atomic Museum National Museum of Nuclear Science & History - History Nuclear Files The Nuclear Weapon Archive Remembering Nagasaki Very moving site; contains a photographic gallery and commentary by ordinary people on the decision to drop the bomb, the science, the telling of history, and the thought of war and peace. Science and Technology of WWII Submarine History 1941-2000: A Timeline of Development Trinity Test Site, New Mexico Truman Library: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb Web Quest: A Bomb Is Dropped.. What was the Enola Gay? mruland@comcast.net Report any Broken Links Last updated September 11, 2009 © Marcella Ruland 1998-2011, All rights reserved