Fifth Grade: Home Front Selected Websites

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Fifth Grade: WWII Home Front
- Topic: Timelines
	United States in the 1940’s http://www.academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/Timeline_of_United_States_history_(1930-1949)
	World War II Timelines http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/timeline/index.htm
	Media History http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/1940s.html
	Japanese Internment Timeline http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html
	The History Place WW II Timeline http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
	WW II Timeline: from What did you do in the war, Grandma? http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/Timeline.html
	World History Timeline http://www.din-timelines.com/1940_timeline.shtml
- Topic: Maps
	Teacher Oz Indexed map links http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIImaps.htm
	Axis Powers by Year http://baby.indstate.edu/gga/gga_cart/gecar153.htm
- Topic: Background Resources
	World War II indexed links on the internet - Comprehensive list of topics on the San Diego State University History Department website: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww2_links.html See also: http://www.teacheroz.com/wwii.htm
	Excellent Primary Source Collection http://tvh.bfn.org/
	U.S. Latinos and Latinas & WW II http://www.utexas.edu/projects/latinoarchives/narratives/3samarroncarlos.html
	WW II Government Poster Collection http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
	Women at War. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWwomen.htm
	This site’s museum tells the story of home front experience through photos and documents. http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/
	World War II advertising campaign. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/wwad-history.html
	Dr. Seuss’ political war cartoons http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/
	A People at War http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html
- Topic: Japanese Internment
	Ansel Adams: The Manzanar photos http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aamhtml/aamhome.html
	Children of the Camps http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/
- Topic: Other Resources
	Food Administration Poster http://www.nh.gov/ww2/ww18.html
	The President Franklin D. Roosevelt Library http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
	World War II Home Front in Iowa – Cedar Rapids Gazette http://www.gazetteonline.com/special/homefront/home.htm
	PRODUCE FOR VICTORY: Posters on the American Home Front http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/
	WW II Poster Collection (Searchable by topic) http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/