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- 20th Century Centenarians: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 1944 Bretton Woods Agreements (United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference): K-12 TLC Guide.
- Pyle, Ernie: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Nuclear Weapons: K-12 TLC Guide.
- African Americans In World War II, Lest We Forget.
- African American Warriors.
- American Association of Retired Persons:
- American Battle Monuments Commission:
- American Combat Aircraft of World War II, MultiEDUCATOR.
- Australian War Memorial.
- Canada and the Second World War, Veterans Affairs Canada.
- Canada During WWII, The Writing Den.
- Canada War Museum:
- Canadian Heritage Gallery.
 The Canadian Memory Project.
- Canadian War Poster Collection, McGill University Libraries.
- Charles Lindbergh's "Address on Neutrality" (audio), The History Channel.
- Collection of WWII Letters To & From The Homefront.
- Deutsche Welle:
- The E. Stanley Wright Museum.
- Eisenhower, Dwight, D.: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Evansville Shipyard, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science.
- Faces of Sacrifice, The White House.
- Fact Monster:
- Fort Riley, KS: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Full-text Listings of Medal of Honor Citations, U.S. Army.
- German Immigration to America: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Grumman F4F Wildcat, Naval Historical Center, U.S. Navy.
- The Hanford Site.
- Heroes of New Zealand, The New Zealand Edge:
- The History Channel:
- The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University.
- Internments of American Citizens:
- Japanese-American 442 Regimental Combat Team, Asian-Nation.
- LST Home Port.
- Liberty Ships Built by the U.S. Maritime Commission, U.S. Merchant Marine.
- Library of Congress:
- Massachusetts Women and the War, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
- Medal of Honor, World War II, The American War Library.
- National Archives and Records Administration:
- National Public Radio:
- National World War II Memorial.
- New York Times:
- OnWar.com.
- Propaganda Materials of World War II.
- Public Radio International:
- Pyle, Ernie: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Rommel, Erwin: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Roosevelt, Franklin: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Selected Manhattan Project Documents.
- A Separate Peace: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Smithsonian Magazine:
- Stay Afloat (Hangman) Word Game, FunBrain.com.
- Stephenson, William: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Suite 101.
- Szyk, Arthur: K-12 TLC Guide.
- World War II-era Fleet Admirals.
- USS Alabama World War II Memorial.
- Wars of the 20th Century, Middle School Cybrary.
- The Weather Notebook:
- Women Veterans:
- World War II, Eye Witness.
- World War II Casualty Database, National Archives.
- World War II Dead, American Battle Monuments Commission.
- World War II Multimedia Database.
- World War II Picture Archive.
- World War II Primary Source Materials, ibiblio.
- World War II Web Resources, The University of North Texas.
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 Nazi Germany: K-12 TLC Guide.
- D-Day: K-12 TLC Guide.
- London: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Russian Front: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Chamberlain, Neville: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Churchill, Winston: K-12 TLC Guide.
- de Gaulle, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Frank, Anne: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Himmler, Heinrich: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Hitler, Adolph: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Montgomery, Bernard: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Munk, Kaj: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Patton, George S.: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Rosenberg, Alfred: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Sisk, Mildred Elizabeth (Axis Sally): K-12 TLC Guide.
- Tuskegee Airmen:
- The US Army in the Second World War, United States Army Insignia Homepage.
- U.S. History Index, Quaboag Regional High School.
- U.S. Navy Historical Center:
- 09/14/1935: The Nuremberg Laws: K-12 TLC Guide:
- 09/30/1938: Munich Pact Cedes Sudetenland to Germany: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 09/01/1939: Nazi Germany Invades Poland:
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- 1940 Battle of Britain (07/10/1940 - 10/31/1940):
- 12/11/1941 Congressional Declaration of War on Germany: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 1942 German Bombing of Malta: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 02/02/1943: Battle of Stalingrad Ends, Soviet Troops Take 90,000 Nazis Prisoners:
- 04/19 - 05/16/1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 10/13/1943: Italy Declares War on Germany:
- 11/28/1943: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin Meet in Tehran, New York Times.
- 08/01 - 10/02/1944 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 08/25/1944: Allied Troops Liberate Paris: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Arctic War, MilitaryHistoryOnline.com.
- Battle of the Bulge (12/16/1944 - 01/21/1945):
- The Battle for Berlin, BBC.
- Battle of Kursk, Wikipedia.
- The BBC:
- The Bismarck:
- British National Archives:
- Deutsche Welle:
- Dieppe Raid, The Writing Den.
- FDR Declares War on Germany: December 11, 1941.
- French Radio Internationale:
- Hess, Rudolph - Biography, The History Place.
- History in Film:
- The History Place.
- The Kipling Society:
- The Liberation of Paris: August 25, 1944: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The Marshall Plan: K-12 TLC Guide.
- National Public Radio:
- Nazi-Era Slave Labor: K-12 TLC Guide
- The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials:
- Operation Torch, Wikipedia.
- Polish Jews in World War II.
- Radio Days (audio):
- Third Reich Factbook.
- The War in Europe, National Archives and Records Administration.
- V-2 Rockets:
- World War II in Europe, The History Place.
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- Halsey, William Frederick, Jr.: K-12 TLC Guide.
- MacArthur, Douglas: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Nimitz, Chester William: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Toguri d'Aquino, Iva (Tokyo Rose): K-12 TLC Guide.
- 1937: The Rape of Nanking: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 1941 Congressional Declaration of War on Japan: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 12/07/1941: Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 12/08/1941: FDR's Declaration of War on Japan: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 12/8-25/1941: Battle of Hong Kong:
- 12/23/941: Sinking of the Oil Tanker SS Montebello:
- 02/15/1942: British Surrender Singapore to the Japanese:
- 04/09/1942: The Fall of Bataan: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 05/1-8/1942: Coral Sea: First Naval Battle Fought Entirely with Aircraft Carriers:
- 1942-43: Guadalcanal:
- 02/23/1945 - 03/26/1945: U.S. Capture of Iwo Jima: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 02/26/1945: Corregidor:
- 06/21/1945: Japanese Surrender Okinawa: K-12 TLC Guide.
- 07/30/1945: Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis:
- 08/06/1945: The U.S. Drops an Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan:
- 08/09/1945: The U.S. Drops an Atomic Bomb on Nagaski, Japan:
- 08/14/1945: V-J (Victory in Japan) Day:
- 09/02/1945: Japanese Formally Surrender Aboard USS Missouri: K-12 TLC Guide.
- The 34th Fighter Squadron Yearbook, The Yellow Airplane.
- The Atomic Bomb In World War II: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Australian War Memorial.
- Battle For Peleliu.
- Bridge on the River Kwai, History in Film.
- British Prisoners of War, BBC.
- Heatter, Gabriel, Radio Days [Audio]:
- HMAS Sydney: K-12 TLC.
- Hiroshima.
- The History Place.
- TheHistoryNet:
- Japanese Air Balloon Bombings Against North America, Canadian Government.
- Japanese Surrender Documents: K-12 TLC Guide.
- National Public Radio:
- The New York Times:
- Tarawa Atoll:
- USS Indianapolis National War Memorial, Indiana War Memorials.
- The War in the Pacific, National Archives and Records Administration.
- Zamperini, Louis: K-12 TLC Guide.
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- 11/09/1938: Kristallnacht: K-12 TLC Guide.
- TheHistoryNet:
- The History Channel:
1938
- 09/30: Munich Pact Cedes Sudetenland to Germany.
1939
- 04/07: Italy Invades Albania.
- 05/22: Germany & Italy Form the Axis Alliance.
- 08/23: German/Russian Non-Aggression Pact.
- 09/01: Germany Invades Poland.
- 09/27: Poland Surrenders to Germany.
- 10/11: Labor Opposes U.S. Entry into War.
- 11/30: USSR Attacks Finland.
1940
- 03/10: Britain Rejects U.S. Peace Proposal.
- 03/17: Dr. Fritz Todt Appointed Nazi Minister for Weapons and Munitions.
- 05/26: British Expeditionary Force Evacuates from Dunkirk, France.
- 09/04: USS Greer 1st US Vessel under Fire.
- 09/07: German Blitzkreig of London Begins.
- 09/10: British React to Blitz: Bomb German Cities.
- 09/13: Italy Invades Egypt.
- 09/27: Germany, Italy & Japan Sign Tripartite Pact.
- 10/02: Germans Begin March on Moscow.
- 10/28: Italy Invades Greece.
- 11/11: British Launch First Successful Attack from Aircraft Carriers.
- 11/14: German Bombers Decimate Coventry.
- 11/23: Romania Joins the Axis Powers: Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan.
- 12/09: Two British Divisions Overwhelm Seven Italian Divisions in Egypt.
1941
- 01/10: FDR Proposes Lend-Lease Program to Congress.
- 01/19: British Forces Invade Italian-occupied Eritrea.
- 04/06: Germany Invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
- 04/06: British Liberate Ethiopia from Italian Occupation.
- 04/27: German Troops Enter Athens.
- 05/23: British HMS Kelly Sunk by Germans.
- 05/24: H.M.S Hood Sinks the Bismarck.
- 08/28: Gestapo Slaughters 23,000 Hungarian Jews.
- 09/19: Germans Bomb Leningrad.
- 09/21: Congress Passes Revenue Act to Support Costs of World War II.
- 10/08: Germans Overrun Mariupol in South Russia.
- 10/17: Prince Konoye's Japanese Government Collapses.
- 10/21: Germans Massacre Thousands of Yugoslavian Civilians.
- 10/30: FDR Approves Lend-Lease Aid for USSR.
- 11/24: U.S. Government Grants Lend-Lease Aid to Free French.
- 11/26: Japanese Fleet Sets Sail for Pearl Harbor.
- 12/06: Japanese Reject U.S. Peace Proposal.
- 12/07: Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor.
- 12/08: U.S. Declares War on Japan.
- 12/08: One Vote Cast Against U.S. Declaration of War on Japan.
- 12/10: Japanese Occupy Philippines: Control Pacific.
- 12/11: Germany Declares War on the United States.
- 12/12: U.S. Seizes French Ocean Liner Normandie.
- 12/18: Japanese Invade Hong Kong.
- 12/19: Hitler Takes Command of the German Army.
1942
- 01/06: U.S. to Produce 45,000 Aircraft & 45,000 Tanks within a Year.
- 01/13: Occupied Countries Vow to Prosecute NAZI Criminals at War's End.
- 01/20: Nazi Leaders Discuss "Final Solution" of "Jewish question."
- 01/25: Thailand Declares War on the United States and England.
- 02/02: Vidkun Quisling Established Prime Minister of Nazi-occupied Norway
- 02/09: Normandie Destroyed by Fire while Being Converted for War.
- 02/10: Japanese Sub Launches Brutal Attack on U.S. Naval Base at Midway
- 02/15: British Forces in Singapore Surrender to the Japanese
- 02/22: FDR Orders MacArthur Out of the Philippines.
- 08/24: U.S. Sinks Japanese Carrier Ryuho.
- 08/29: Japan Refuses Red Cross Aide for US POWs.
- 09/09: Japanese Drop Incendiary Bombs on an Oregon Forest.
- 09/12: Germans Sink British Troop Ship Laconia.
- 09/21: B-29 Flying Fortress Makes First Flight.
- 10/03: Germans Successfully Test V-2 Rocket.
- 10/11: U.S. Ships Defeat Japanese at Cape Esperance.
- 10/26: Japanese Air Attack Forces Crew to Abandon USS Hornet.
- 10/29: British Protest Germany's Persecution of Jews.
- 11/02: British Forces Break Rommel's Defense at El Alamein.
- 11/04: German Field Marshall Erwin Rommel Retreats from El Alamein.
- 11/10: Germany Invades Vichy France.
- 11/29: Coffee Added to the List of U.S. Food Rations.
- 12/04: Polish Christians Aid Polish Jews.
1943
- 01/12: Soviet Forces Breach 18-month Nazi Siege of Leningrad.
- 01/14: Churchill & FDR Begin Casablanca Conference.
- 01/18: Nazi's Resume Deportation of Warsaw Jews to Treblinka.
- 01/27: First U.S. Bombing Raid targets Wilhelmshaven.
- 03/2-4: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
- 05/08: Hitler Gives Order for Operation Alaric, Occupation of Italy.
- 09/08: Eisenhower Publicly Announces Italy's Surrender to the Allies.
- 09/09: Allies land at Salerno and Taranto.
- 10/13: Italy Declares War on Germany.
- 10/19: Chinese & Suluks Revolt Against Japanese Occupiers: North Borneo.
- 11/15: Heinrich Himmler Orders Imprisonment of Gypsies.
- 11/16: Americans Bomb German Heavy Water Plant in Norway.
- 11/20: Battle of Tarawa Begins.
- 11/30: Progress Made at Teheran Conference.
1944
- 01/11: German POW Murdered By NAZI Enforcers in Texas Camp.
- 01/27: Soviet Forces Break the 872-day Leningrad Siege.
- 02/03: U.S. Troops Capture the Marshall Islands.
- 02/17: U.S. Troops Capture the Eniwetok Atoll.
- 05/25: Germans Fail to Capture Tito.
- 08/22: Romania Captured by Russia.
- 08/25: Paris Is Liberated.
- 08/26: DeGaulle Enters Paris.
- 08/31: British Break the "Gothic Line".
- 09/26: Germans Devastate Allies at Arnhem.
- 10/09: Churchill & Stalin Begin 9-day Conference.
- 10/25: Japanese Kamikaze Bombers First Used in Leyte Gulf.
- 11/07: Richard Sorge, Russian Spymaster, Hanged in Japan.
- 11/25: V-2 Rocket Kills 160 Shoppers at British Woolworth's Store.
1945
- 01/03: MacArthur and Nimitz Given New Commands in the Pacific.
- 01/05: Soviets Recognize Pro-Soviet Polish Provisional Government.
- 01/09: U.S. Invades Luzon in the Philippines.
- 01/26: Soviet Troops Liberate Auschwitz, Poland.
- 02/16: American Troops Recapture the Philippines' Bataan Peninsula.
- 03/03: Finland Declares War on Germany.
- 04/07: Allies Sink Japan's Battleship Yamato.
- 04/21: Soviets Overrun the Nazi High Command Outside of Berlin.
- 05/23: Heinrich Himmler Commits Suicide.
- 08/30: MacArthur in Japan's for Surrender.
- 09/02: Japanese Formally Surrender Aboard USS Missouri.
- 09/04: Japanese Surrender Wake Island.
- 09/18: MacArthur Moves Headquarters to Tokyo.
- 11/16: 88 German Rocket Scientists Arrive in U.S..
- 12/15: MacArthur Declares End to Shinto As Japan's State Religion.
- 04/13/1990: Soviets Admit to Katyn Forest Massacre of 5,000 Polish Officers.
- The History Place:
- On-This-Day:
- Writer's Almanac:
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- Logan Library, UT:
- World War II and Children's Literature,
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web Site.
- Young Adult:
- An American Girl in Hitler's Germany, Eleanor Ayer.
- The Chosen, Chaim Potok.
- The Diary of Anne Frank: K-12 TLC Guide.
- Faithful Elephants,
Yukio Tsuchiya, Ted Lewin, Tomoko T. Dykes.
- Foster's War, Carolyn Reeder.
- Lily's Crossing, Patricia Reilly Giff:
- Number the Stars, Lois Lowry.
- Parallel Journeys, Eleanor Ayer.
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr.
- Adult:
- Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour, Lynne Olson:
- The Golden Age, Gore Vidal.
- Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings..., Arthur Schlesinger Jr..
- My War, Andy Rooney:
- Night, Elie Wiesel, Calhoun High School, NY.
- A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, Caroline Moorehead Harper:
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