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Chapter 28: America in A World at War


Web Links

Fighters on the Farm Front

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/osu/osuhomepage.html

An exhibit on farm labor during the labor shortages of World War II.

War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946

http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/wraintro.html

Photographs of two camps used to detain Japanese-Americans.

World War II: The World Remembers

http://www.odedodea.edu/k-12/D-Day/index.htm
Primarily covers D-Day.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.ushmm.org/
A searchable photo archive, as well as exhibits on specific topics.

Oral History Archives of World War II Project

http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm
Interviews with veterans, most of them Rutgers alumni.

Atomic Bomb: Decision

http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html
Documents relating to the decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan.

Fifty Years from Trinity

http://www.seattletimes.com/trinity/
A description of the Manhattan project and its legacy.

Einstein-Image and Impact

http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/
A brief biography of the physicist, with photographs.

Pearl Harbor: Remembered

http://www.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html
A few photographs and survivors’ accounts.

Radio Days

http://www.otr.com/index.shtml

Adventure serials and World War II broadcasts in RealAudio format. Requires a very good dialup or dedicated connection.

The Avalon Project: World War II Documents

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm

Diplomatic documents from the major powers.

Center of Military History

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/
Includes the full text of the official Army history of the Normandy campaign.

Photographs of San Francisco's Chinatown, Taken by James Wong Howe, 1944

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/dynaweb/ead/calher/howe/Generic_BookView

Scenes of daily life taken by the Chinese-born cinematographer.

William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
Photos taken between 1938 and 1948 of jazz performers, including Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong.

WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) Web

http://www.wasp-wwii.org/wasp/home.htm
History of women pilots during World War II, including photographs, taped oral histories, and e-mail addresses for former WASPs.

 


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