World History Museum Exhibit Links

1. GENERAL SOURCES

· http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ (Great overall source on many topics of WWII)
· http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/ (Another good general introduction from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

2. TOPIC-SPECIFIC SOURCES

· German, Italian and/or Japanese aggression in the 1930s (including the Rape of Nanking)
i. http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria18_3.htm#nanking (Japan--see the bottom of this article for more great links)
ii. http://www.chlive.org/pbeck/eastlibrary/NANJINGMASSACRERESOURCES.htm (Japan)
iii. http://www.princeton.edu/~nanking/ (Japan)
iv. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nanking.html (Japan)
v. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/japan_quest_empire_01.shtml (Japan)
vi. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005141 (Germany)


· Appeasement and isolationism in Europe and the US
i. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/munich1.htm
ii. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1938PEACE.html
iii. http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/ (propaganda cartoons from “Dr. Seuss”)
iv. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/technolww2.htm
v. http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/baker_00/2002-p3/baker_p3_12-01_js/index.htm
vi. http://harwich.edu/depts/history/HHJ/iso.htm
vii. http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/index.asp
viii. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/filmmore/reference/primary/firstcommittee.html B(primary source)
ix. http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/ww2/app.htm

· Major battles/events of the European theater (Invasion of France, Evacuation of Dunkirk, Battle of Britain/the blitz, Operation Barbarossa, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge)
i. http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/homefront/default.htm
ii. http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111chur.html
iii. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html
iv. http://www.kansasheritage.org/abilene/ikectr.html
v. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/dunkirk_audio.shtml
vi. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_of_britain_01.shtml
vii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/invasion_ww2_01.shtml
viii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/fall_france_01.shtml
ix. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_russia_invasion_01.shtml
x. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/#in-depth:_d-day_and_overlord
xi. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_bulge_01.shtml


· The attack on Pearl Harbor
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941PEARL.html
ii. http://www.pearlharbormemorial.com/site/pp.asp?c=fqLQJ2NNG&b=1549551
iii. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html
iv. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec07.html
v. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/19981207monday.html
vi. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/pearl_harbour_01.shtml (great secondary source)
vii. http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
viii. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/91dec/fallows.htm (Japanese perspective)
ix. http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/USSBS/PTO-Campaigns/USSBS-PTO-2.html (Japanese perspective)


· Major battles of the Pacific theater (Bataan, Midway, Iwo Jima, Okinawa)
i. http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/index.html
ii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_midway_01.shtml
iii. http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5228.htm (Iwo Jima)
iv. http://www.pbs.org/thewar/detail_5209.htm (Bataan)

· Leadership of Winston Churchill
i. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml
ii. http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/churchill_papers/biography/
iii. http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/churchill/
iv. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/churchill_gathering_storm_01.shtml
v. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/churchill_defender_01.shtml


· Military leaders of WWII (Douglas Macarthur, Dwight Eisenhower)
i. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html (Eisenhower)
ii. http://www.kansasheritage.org/abilene/ikectr.html (Eisenhower)


· Life on the home front (British)
i. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/ww2-music-uk.html
ii. http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/homefront/default.htm
iii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/
iv. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/20/lifeinww2/index.htm


· The Holocaust
i. http://www.ushmm.org/holocaust/
ii. http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/
iii. http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/nrule.htm
iv. http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394653
v. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/
vi. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/
vii. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook44.html
viii. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/maps/
ix. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/liberation_camps_01.shtml
x. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/launch_tl_persecution_genocide.shtml


· Military technology (blitzkrieg, radar, aircraft carriers, atomic bomb, etc)
i. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/blitzkrieg_01.shtml
ii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_bulge_01.shtml
iii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuclear_01.shtml
iv. http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/technolww2.htm (new media technologies)
v. http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159269&lid=1 (also see related articles on the right of this site)
vi. http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?taid=&id=159269&lid=1&seq=3
vii. http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?taid=&id=159269&lid=1&seq=5
viii. http://projects.olin.edu/ahs/HOT2004/Allies/index.htm
ix. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/aerial_recon_gallery.shtml
x. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/area_bombing_01.shtml
xi. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/air_war_bombers_01.shtml

· Nazi war criminals and the Nuremberg Trials
i. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nuremberg_article_01.shtml
ii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/war_crimes_trials_01.shtml
iii. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/guilt_identity_01.shtml
iv. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/eichmann_01.shtml
v. http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/warcrimetrials/comment_post.php
vi. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/05/AR2007120502437.html
vii. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEFD9163FF937A35751C0A964958260
viii. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005140
viii http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/st/~tpace/Timeline.html (Argentina in WWII)

World History HW for Wed 05/14 to Mon 05/19

1. Read all of Chapter 14.
2. CN, Ch 14 Sec 1.
3. CN, Ch 14 Sec 2.

US History HW for Wed 05/14 to Thurs 05/22

1. Read all of Chapters 16 and 17.
2. CN, Ch 16 Sec 4.
3. Museum Exhibit Research Notes (find 2 other sources outside the one provided!)

Totalitarianism research links

Adolf Hitler
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_01.shtml
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX87.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html

Benito Mussolini
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmussolini.htm
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/heroesvillains/g3/
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/R/real_lives/mussolini.html
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/mussolin.htm

Josef Stalin
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSstalin.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/heroesvillains/g4/

World History HW for Fri May 9 to Tues May 12

Friday, May 9 to Tuesday, May 12: bring textbooks, finish "Animal Farm" final reflection

US History HW for May 9 to May 13

Friday, May 9: Socratic Seminar preparation

Monday, May 12: Exam (Pd 5)
Tuesday, May 13: Exam (Pds 2 and 6), NBs (Pds 2 and 5)
Wednesday, May 14: NBs (Pd 6)

US History HW for Wed 05/07 and Th 05/08

Periods 2 and 5: CN, "New Deal Critics" and "Record of the New Deal"

Period 6: CN, "The Tennessee Valley Authority"

World History HW for Wed 05/07 and Th 05/08

1. Russian Revolution Quiz next class

• Fever Model: Incubation and Symptomatic stages
• Fever Model: Crisis and Convalescence stages
• Lenin and the New Soviet Union
• Stalin the Rise of Totalitarianism

2. Finish Stalin Webquest

US History HW for Fri 05/02 and Mon 05/05

Periods 2 and 5
CN, The Tennessee Valley Authority

Period 6
"Alphabet Soup" Notes
QUIZ on Friday!

World History HW for Fri 05/02 and Mon 05/04

1. Finish Stalin Webquest (Cornell Notes ONLY)