Library
Turbulent Decades
1919-1945
 
Roaring Twenties

Twentieth Century History by the Decades
http://melvil.chicousd.org/decsg.html

Decades: 1920-1929
http://www.unit5.org/cjhsimc/hotlists/decades/decades_1920-1929.html

Roaring Twenties : History in the Key of Jazz
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm

Stock Market Crash

Stock Market Crash
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/estockmktcrash.htm

Looking Back at the Crash of '29
http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html

The Great Depression

Timeline of the Great Depression
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/timeline/

Surviving the Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX05.html

American Memory: Great Depression and World War II (primary documents)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depwar.html

The New Deal
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX09.html

Riding the Rails
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rails/

The Roosevelts

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/

Infoplease: New Deal
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0835397.html


World War II

GENERAL

BBC: World War Two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/

The World at War: A History of World War Two 1939-1945
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
 

Teacher Net: World War Two
http://www.members.aol.com/TeacherNet/WWII.html
 

National Archives: A People At War – A World War Two Exhibit
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html

American Memory: America From the Great Depression to World War Two
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
 

History Central.com: World War Two
http://www.multied.com/ww2/index.html
 

EASTERN THEATER

 Maps

 OnWar.com: Maps of World War Two – Eastern Theater
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/
 

Holocaust - Concentration Camps   
Due to the nature of this topic, some of the images are disturbing.

Anne Frank Online
http://www.annefrank.com

Auschwitz-Birkenau Photograph Archive
http://www.remember.org/jacobs/index.html

Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://remember.org/

The History Place Holocaust Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org

Museum of Tolerance
http://www.wiesenthal.com/mot/index.cfm

The Nizkor Project
http://www.nizkor.org/

Holocaust Learning Center
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
 

The Holocaust History Project
http://www.holocaust-history.org/

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy (Thinkquest project)
http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/

20th Century History: The Holocaust
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/

Rescuers of the Holocaust

The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en

The Frances and Jacob Hiatt Collection of Holocaust Materials
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/hiatt/
- discusses the role of Catholics and particularly Jesuits during the Holocaust (heroes and martyrs)

Righteous Gentiles
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/

Russia and World War Two 

BBC.com: Hitler’s Invasion of Russia in World War Two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/hitler_russia_invasion_01.shtml 

HOME FRONT 

Children During the War

BBC.com: Children of World War Two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2children/
 

Japanese Internment 

Willard Marriott Library: University of Utah -Japanese Internment Camps of World War Two Exhibit
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm
 

PBS.org: Children of the Camps (Japanese Internment)
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/
 

Japanese American Exhibit & Access Project
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/default.htm

Role of African Americans   
African Americans in World War 2
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html

The History Place: African Americans in World War Two
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/aframerwar/index.html
 

Role of Women 

Women and the Home Front During World War Two
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIHomefront.htm
 

Women Come to the Front
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
 

Propaganda 

National Archives: Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art From World War Two
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html
 

Ad Access: Brief History of World War Two Advertising Campaigns
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/wwad-history.html
 

Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of World War Two Political Cartoons
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/
 

Propaganda Leaflets of the Second World War
http://members.home.nl/ww2propaganda/
 

BBC.com: Nazi Propaganda
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery.shtml
 

German Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
 

PACIFIC THEATER

 Maps 

OnWar.com: Maps of World War Two – Eastern Theater
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/

 Pearl Harbor 

National Geographic.com: Remembering Pearl Harbor – Attack Map
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
 

 Battle of Midway 

National Geographic.com: Battle of Midway
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/98/midway/
 

Naval Historical Center: Battle of Midway
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm

 

WEAPONS AND WARFARE

 Maps

OnWar.com: Maps of World War Two
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/
 

Air Warfare

 American Aircraft of World War Two
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/american.htm
 

Naval Warfare 

Naval Historical Center: World War Two
http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/index.html#anchor12058
 

Land Warfare   

Second World War Battles
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWbattles.htm

D-Day 

The Normandy Invasion: A Story in Pictures (D-Day)
 
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/normandy/Pictures.htm 

D-Day: American Experience
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/
 

National D-Day Memorial Foundation:History   
http://www.dday.org/

 

 

District home page | FMS home page

This page is maintained according to Guilderland Central School District web publishing guidelines by  Mary Jeanne Dicker on behalf of the Guilderland Central School District.
03/24/2008