Fifth Grade
Unit 2 | Selected Websites
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://library.thinkquest.org/15511/timeline/index.htm - 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
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/ - 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 Interment
- 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/ - 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/
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