For all these topics, begin with the following databases:
| The United States at War (includes American History and World History) go to Wars, then World War II | SIRS Decades Click on 1940s |
| Facts on File (includes American History, American Women's History, and African American History databases) user name: mcpsd password: trials | History Resource Center: US and History Resource Center: Modern World scroll down and click on HRC again |
| Student Resource Center Gold great for biographies | Proquest Historical Newspapers find newspaper articles from the 1940's |
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| Seven pilots(?) on airplane, Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama], created between 1941 and 1945; official photograph, U.S.A.A.F. by AAF Training Command. Reproduction No.: LC-USZ62-128633 (b&w film copy neg.) |
BBC's WWII Page- search for battles, timelines, etc.
Articles from San Francisco internment camps
Tule Lake and Topaz Japanese Internment Camps
A More Perfect Union (Internment Camps) click Rich Media version
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - the ultimate resource for the Holocaust. Read (and hear) testimony from survivors, statistics, maps and more.
Encyclopedia Britannica's Guide to D-Day
PBS: Voices of D-day read letters that soldiers wrote home, view artifacts, etc.
Battle of Midway from the Navy - includes personal accounts, maps, photographs, etc.
Life on the Homefront a Library of Congress collection
Smithsonsian: The Price of Freedom
Noodlebib write a perfect bibliography