All WWII United News Newsreels, 1942-1946 (video) http://tr.im/n7l7 All WWII United News Newsreels, 1942-1946
This database contains the 267 issues of ‘The United News' produced by the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II.
Normandy Landings (Listing at Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Landings Normandy Landings (Listing at Wikipedia)
This is about the first day of the Invasion of Normandy (D-Day). .. 6 June 1944
Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord, during World War II
Last Stand Militaria http://www.laststandmilitaria.webs.com We specialize in military antiques and collectibles from WW2 to the Korean War.
We update frequently and are always trying to find the most unique militaria from the U.S. and 3RD Reich. We offer Medals, Uniforms, Fieldgear, Edged Weapons, Flags, Photos and more from Germany, Japan, US and other Minor Allied and Axis countries.
WW2 . talking/interviews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgFAfx5pfgI A documentary about people who were
9 – 11 years old during the Second World
War.
This is a great way to bring 'living
history' into the classroom, and get
children involved in recording and
discussing other's real life experiences.
Holocaust Unit, grade 6, 3 weeks http://tinyurl.com/6pu96r Holocaust Unit, grade 6, 3 weeks
How does the Holocaust exemplify discrimination, abuse of power, and oppression? "The theme allows the students and teacher to become and stay focused on a topic of study. This also gears a collection of activities to stay focused on one idea in order to show relationships between major concepts, and not just teach disconnected facts."
The Origins of World War II (Lesson Plan) http://tinyurl.com/5pycsw The Origins of World War II (Lesson Plan)
Have you ever had a problem with a bully? The bully may take your lunch money or force you to do his/her homework. In the late 1930s Hitler was bullying the rest of Europe and got his way several times. Finally, France and Britain had enough and the result was World War II.
WWII Radio Broadcast http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSCIWWIIRadioBroadcastRecording912.htm WWII Radio Broadcast
The students will produce a radio show that is set in Britain during WWII.
Lesson plan to help students create a British radio show reporting the attack on the United State in WW2.
The students will gain knowledge of important radio broadcasts and speeches by listening to speeches done by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Adolph Hitler.
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WW2 Historic Photographs http://images.google.com/images?q=1940s+Hawaii+source:life WW2 Historic Photographs
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
WWII Veteran Interview (video) http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=181deac35e89ec86b642 WWII Veteran Interview
WWII vet Karl Stouch tells his brave tale about serving in the U.S. Army as a tank ammunitions loader. Karl shares details about life in the tanks during the war.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/ A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.
...suggested educational activities for elementary, middle and high school students.
Timeline ... Adolf Hitler http://xtimeline.com/biography/Adolf-Hitler:-From-unknown-to-dictator-of-Germany Timeline ... Adolf Hitler: From unknown to dictator of Germany
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was the German Chancellor (Reichskanzler) from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Germany from 1934 until 1945. He was also the leader of the National Socia ...
Timeline ... World War II (1939-1945) http://xtimeline.com/history/World-War-II-(1939-1945) Timeline ... World War II (1939-1945)
How the modern world was forged -- World War II was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, from 1939 until 1945. Armed forces from over seventy nations engaged in a ...
World War 2 : Videos and PowerPoints online http://ww2videos.blogspot.com/ World War 2 : Videos and PowerPoints online
The link above goes to one of the Shambles "Forest of Theme Blogs" pages that provides videos and other multimedia resources to support the topic here.
If you would like to see all of the Theme Blogs then go to the full list at http://www.shambles.net/blogforest or click where you see this button
WW2 Peoples War (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/ WW2 People's War (BBC)
The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006. This archive of 47,000 stories and 15,000 images is the result.
Textmapping http://www.textmapping.org/ Textmapping is a graphic organizer technique that can be used to teach reading comprehension and writing skills, study skills, and course content.
Textmapping is a graphic organizer technique that can be used to teach reading comprehension and writing skills, study skills, and course content. The Textmapping website has great examples, lesson plans, and email discussion groups.
WW2 United Newsreel Motion Pictures (1942-1945) http://video.google.com/nara.html WW2 United Newsreel Motion Pictures (1942-1945)
During World War II, the United States Government financed its own newsreel for overseas viewers, entitled THE UNITED NEWSREEL. This selection of government produced newsreels, deposited in the National Archives, was produced by the Office of War Information.
e.g. Video / Movie
Marines Raise Flag Over Iwo Jima [Etc.] 1945 | American Army Women Serving On All Fronts | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Allied patrols in Action on Anzio Beach | Everybody Joins U.S. War Effort | Japanese Sign Final Surrender |
WW2 on this day (BBC) News Headlines http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/themes/conflict_and_war/world_war_ii/default.stm WW2 on this day (BBC) News Headlines
On This Day is a showcase of some of the most significant as well as some of the quirkier stories broadcast by BBC News since 1950 and now including a new World War II section.
Nearly all the stories contain video or audio and are written as if the event had only just occurred, drawing on archive media, old newspapers and historical reference books.
World War Two Experiences http://www.apple.com/uk/education/ilife/examples/history.html World War Two Experiences
An oral history project where recollections from World War Two are set to archive images of that period.
To enable pupils to understand the effect that World War 2 had on the lives of people at the time and to relate those events to their current surroundings.
Resources used: A scanner, iPod with Belkin Voice Recorder, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie HD and iDVD, Internet access.
WW2 in Colour http://www.ww2incolor.com/ WW2 in Colour
For so many years, historians and casual observers alike have observed the events of World War II through faded black and white images. What most people do not know is the fact that quite a large portion of the WWII was shot using color film! However, it wasn't until recently that a lot of the photographs and motion picture footage was de-classified by the U.S. Government. We don't just have a collection of U.S. images, but we also have a diverse collection of German, Russian, Japanese, British and Italian photos.
Go For Broke Educational Foundation http://www.goforbroke.org Preserving the legacy of the Japanese American veterans of World War II
The cornerstone of the Go For Broke Educational Foundation is its Hanashi Oral History Program interview archive. With hundreds of interviews in its collection, the Hanashi oral history videos are some of the last primary sources of World War II Japanese American veteran information.
World War II http://www.42explore2.com/worldwar2.htm World War II
World War began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and ended in 1945 with the surrender of Germany and Japan. The allied nations including Australia, Canada, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States, and New Zealand defeated the Axis countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Iwo Jima Retrospective : Video http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,NI_Iwo_Jima2,00.html Iwo Jima Retrospective
For all who bear its scars, the battle for Iwo Jima,February 19-March 26, 1945, still looms gargantuan, unbelievable, devouring; not measurable by Guadalcanal, Peleliu or Belleau Wood, but by its own arena, complexity, ferocity and the character of its combatants, whose American casualties were one third of all Marine Corps casualties in the war.
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Social Relationships During World War II in USA http://marchand.ucdavis.edu/lessons/fightingfor/fight.html American Visions of National Purposes and Social Relationships During World War II
The images on the set of slides, which should be viewed in conjunction with the identification of sources and reproduction of text on the following pages, are taken primarily from popular, broad circulation magazines in the United States during the years 1942 to 1945. Many are advertisements. Others are magazine covers, posters or news stories. Nearly all of them represent some attempt, through visual image alone or through a combination of picture and words, to make a statement about the nature of an America at war -- its ideals, its way of life, its pattern of social relationships and social expectations, its vision of the things to be gained through victory,
Background to the Second World War http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Timelines.htm Background to the Second World War | Chronology of the Second World War | Technology and the Second World War | Battles of the Second World War | World War Two | Timeline of Second World War | The Holocaust |
Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority http://www.yadvashem.org/ The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by an act of the Israeli Knesset. Since its inception, Yad Vashem has been entrusted with documenting the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust period, preserving the memory and story of each of the six million victims, and imparting the legacy of the Holocaust for generations to come through its archives, library, school, museums and recognition of the Righteous Among the Nations.
WW2 : Multimedia Learning Center http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/ WW2 : Multimedia Learning Center
A comprehensive resource on the Holocaust and World War II, with over 3,000 text files, and tens of thousands of photos.
Featuring: glossary, timeline, bibliographies, 36 questions and answers about the Holocaust, and curricular resources for teachers.
WW2 Lesson Plans at LearningCurve http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/snapshots.htm WW2 Lesson Plans at LearningCurve
Evacuation to Canada in World War 2 | The Home Front | British response to V1 and V2 | World War 2 British Government propaganda 3-4 | Adolf Hitler - Character | Hitler Assassination plan | Belsen Concentration Camp, 1945 | The Zeppelin Raids | The German occupation of the Rhineland | Chamberlain and Hitler, 1938 |
Home Front 1939-45 : Video Clips Online (free access) http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/onfilm/archive.htm Home Front 1939-45 : Video Clips Online (free access)
Welcome to our film archive. Here you can view twentieth century films ranging from life in Britain to conflict in Vietnam.
Evacuation | Women at War | Spies | Preparations | Bombing of Britian | Everyday life | film | archive | video | online |
It's World War Two: How would you cope? http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/teachers/kids.htm It's World War Two: How would you cope?
To play these games, follow the link and then click on the Activity button.
Bomb Shelter | Shopping in war-time | Escape from the Blitz |
World War II aerial reconnaissance photos http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/ British archive of over 5 million World War II aerial reconnaissance photos
Interview Adolf Hitler! http://www.activehistory.co.uk/head2head/hitler/index.htm Empathising with the German people who supported Hitler does not mean sympathising with them, but it does prevent us complacently dismissing the evils of Nazism as a "German problem" and thereby leaves us much better equipped to tackle similar tragic situations if and when they arise again.
Hitler | WW2 | Lesson plan | Submit a Question | Worksheet |
World War 2 (WW2) at the Learning Network http://teachervision.com/tv/theme/World%20War%20II On December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II.
International Peace Day | Images in World War II | Women and World War II | World War II: Timeline | Battles That Changed History | Flag Facts | Learning About Voice Through Photographs |
Find It Quick : WW2 http://www.finditquick.com/topics/5/37.html Learn about WWII land, sea and air battles, compare photos of tanks, battleships and bombers, listen to personal accounts of the Holocaust, and send a coded message to a friend!