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World War Two

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  • Comparing GNP of Axis and Allies
  • London can take it (movie about London in the Blitz)
  • Data visualization of WW2 fatalities (animation)
  • World II Remembered (Scholastic)
  • Witness: World War 2 Collection (videos based on eyewitness accounts)
  • Voices from World War II (radio broadcasts)
  • Eyewitness to History: Sources from WWII
  • BBC - History: World War 2
  • BBC's Summary Outline of Key Events
  • BBC: People's War (timeline)
  • Japan's quest for power in Asia
  • Animated maps of Pearl Harbor attack
  • Pacific War Animated ("under construction," but what's there is useful)
  • World War II Database
  • Maps: World War II - European Theaters (West Point)
  • Outbreak of war (1939 articles from British Telegraph)
  • The War (materials related to Ken Burns documentary)
  • Voices of World War II
  • CriticalPast.com (This archive of historical government video has more than 6,400 short clips from 1945 alone.)
  • Audie Murphy (war hero, subject of 1955 movie)
  • BBC History of World War II
  • D-Day
    • British Pathe - original newsreel
    • D Day and the German Surrender
    • Army site on D-Day
    • Eisenhower and D-Day
    • Normandy 1944
    • Animation of the landings
    • D-Day (American Experience)
    • Voices of D-Day
    • Jewish soldiers remembering D-Day
    • New York Times collection of articles on 70th anniversary of D-Day
    • D Day Interpretive Dance (6/6/14 - CSpan)
    • Google Image Gallery
  • Modern World History Revision Site (in support of British national curriculum)
  • John D. Clare (also British, for exam review)
  • Second World War Encyclopedia
  • French Resistance
  • What did you do in the war, Grandma?
  • Bombing of Dresden
  • Surviving the firestorm (from Victor Klemperer's diary)
  • Bombers and the bombed (BBC): interactive on the experience of bombing Coventry in England and Lubeck in Germany)
  • Battle of the Bulge (interactive)
  • Manhattan Project (Department of Energy educational resource)
  • New Mexico's Role in World War II
  • Ground Zero 1945: Drawings by Atomic Bomb Survivors; A Boy's Story (account of dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima)
  • Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today (Web site for recently re-released film based on archival footage of trial and Nazi crimes)
  • Cars, planes, and tanks of World War 2

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