World War II
The student will go out on the Internet to "The Internet Public Library" . Open your web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer or Firefox). Type this url http://www.ipl.org/ on the address line and press enter.
On the left menu put the mouse over Social Studies and a menu appears. Select History from that menu.
To initiate the search type "World War II" in the search window. A list of web sites will appear. The student should visit their preferred sites by clicking on the url.
Visit the list of web sites provided as part of your research by clicking on the underlined links.
The student can pick any part of the World War II, a specific place or battle then research the account from the historian's perspective and the participant in the event.
The student is to write a minimum of three paragraphs on what they have learned.
Research Links
Searchable collection of government documents relating to World War II. Most are US documents concerned with the attack on Pearl Harbor, but there are European intelligence and diplomatic documents , and material on the conduct of the Pacific, some written by Japanese military sources.
This somewhat cynical but extremely informative site gives a detailed history of women in the military. It breaks the information down by conflict/war and names the famous women involved in each.
The Japanese American Exhibit and Access Project is a multifaceted project to create a permanent Web site which provides enhanced access to the UW Libraries holdings on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War II.
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