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Great Sites For Teaching About: World Wars I and II
http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites060.shtml

A World at War: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson208.shtml

World War I
Causes of World War I lessons: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/wwi/objectives_wwi.html

Lost Poets of the Great War: http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/index.html

Online lessons: The First World War: http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/Lessons/Year9/firstworldwarlessons.htm

What Are We Fighting For Over There? Perspectives on the Great War: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/00/lincolnm/intro.html

World War I Document Archive: http://www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/
Search by keyword or browse through official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences, an image archive, a biographical dictionary, and more.

World War I-Trenches on the Web: http://www.worldwar1.com/

The Great Depression
Dust Bowl Days to Victory Days: 1930s to 1945:
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/MarcoGrams/Jul2003.html

World War II
Displaced Persons' Camps: http://www.dpcamps.org/

Man Who Won the War: http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1080327

Rationing: http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/meltingpot/oxford/330/ratn.html

Revisiting the Birth of the Bomb: http://www.npr.org/programs/re/archivesdate/2003/feb/trinity/index.html

Science and Technology of World War II: http://www.ww2sci-tech.org/
The World War II years ushered in more advances in technology, medicine and other math and science-related fields than any other era in history. This Web site explores how these advances affected not only the war, but our lives today. The National World War II Museum in New Orleans produced the site. Among other features, the Web site offers lesson plans investigating radar and sonar technologies and analyzing how the Allies used the moon and tides to plan the D-Day invasion.

The Holocaust
Convoy XX form Malines to Auschwitz -- 1600 Souls: http://www.avotaynu.com/malines/

The Holocaust WebQuest: http://home.sullivan.k12.il.us/teachers/lawson/webholocaust1.htm

The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Virtual Cinema Project: http://www.spielbergfilmarchive.org.il
One hundred and twelve films have already been digitized and posted on the archive's Internet site. The online titles were divided into five subject groups, such as: - Jewish communities, - the Holocaust, - Pre-state Israel,- Israel since statehood, and - Hebrew University.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm
Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida

Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre: http://www.vhec.org/

Hiroshima
Atomic Bomb-Truman Press Release-August 6, 1945: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/abomb.htm
lesson plans

Sadako
Sadako: Crane for Peace
http://www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/multirc/pages/Voices/pdfvoices/sadako.pdf

Teaching With Documents Lesson Plan: Powers of Persuasion - Poster Art of World War II: http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion.html

The WWII Oral History Project: http://www.thedropzone.org/

This site began in March 1998 and was created by Janet Luch.   This page was last updated on April 26, 2009
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