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Chapter 29 - The Second World War

Images and Maps

Chart: Wars of the Twentieth Century

Map: Losses in the Second World War

Maps: The Axis Powers During World War II

Maps: World War II Theaters

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Black and White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

America from the Great Depression to World War II: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1939-1945

Second World War America Audio & Video

World War II Photo Gallery

Lest We Forget: World War II

Voices of the Twentieth Century
(Several audio files relating to this chapter)

Images of World War II

Pictures of World War II

WWII Photos

Radio in World War Two

Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945

American Combat Aircraft of World War II

Battle of the Coral Sea, May 7-8, 1942: Overview and Special Image Selection

Battle of Midway, June 4-7, 1942: Overview and Special Image Selection

National Geographic: Return to Midway

World War II: The Homefront Artifact Museum

A People at War

Hiroshima: Was It Necessary?

Poster Archives of World War II

Powers of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II

The Bracero Program

African American Odyssey: The Depression, the New Deal, and World War II

Rosie Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers During World War II

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946

Normandy Today

Iwo Jima

May Their Memories Be a Blessing: A Guide to Understanding the Holocaust

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Map of Nazi Concentration and Death Camps

Near Shima Hospital: The Hiroshima Panorama Project, Photography of October, 1945

Nagasaki Journey

 

Primary Sources

Documents of World War II

World War II: Documents

Recollections of the Battle of Midway by Lt. Joseph P. Pollard, MC, USN, Medical Officer on board USS Yorktown

A Marine Diary: My Experiences on Guadalcanal, An Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Guadalcanal

I Never Had It So Good, or The Private War of John R. Houser 33873307

What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?

Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters During World War II

Zoot Suit Riots

The Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945
(From the Modern History Sourcebook)

The Yalta Conference

Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy: Hiroshima

Atomic Bomb: Decision

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima: Was It Necessary?

 

Secondary Sources

Elizabeth Rose, "Essential Patriotic Service": Mothers and Day Care in World War II Philadelphia"

Normandy
(Includes maps)

The 1943 Detroit Race Riots

Stuart Cosgrove, "The Zoot-Suit and Style Warfare"

World War II: Article Index
(From The History Net, an online journal)

Women at War: Redstone's WWII Female "Production Soldiers"

 

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