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America at War: Background to Involvement - American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Vol. 5: 1940-1949. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
Toward War: U.S. Foreign Policy and Isolationism - American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Vol. 4: 1930-1939. Detroit: Gale, 2001.
"America on the Sidelines" an interactive timeline to look at events that occurred in Europe from September 1939 through December 1940.
Cause and Effect: The Outbreak of World War II from teachinghistory.org
World War II - John Green
American Isolationism in the 1930s article from the U.S. Department of State's Office of the Historian
The Origins of the Second World War a unit of study including primary sources from the History Study Center Database
Primary Sources from the World War II Conferences
The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference - Primary Document
Tehran Conference - Primary Document
The Yalta Conference - Primary Document
Documents from World War II via the Teaching American History Project
Treaty of Versailles - Milestone Documents in World History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World. Ed. Brian Bonhomme and Cathleen Boivin. Vol. 3: 1839 - 1941. Dallas, TX: Schlager Group, 2010. 1205-1219
Adolf Hitler's Proclamation to the German People - Milestone Documents in World History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World. Ed. Brian Bonhomme and Cathleen Boivin. Vol. 3: 1839 - 1941. Dallas, TX: Schlager Group, 2010. 1356-1367
Covenant of the League of Nations - Milestone Documents in World History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World. Ed. Brian Bonhomme and Cathleen Boivin. Vol. 3: 1839 - 1941. Dallas, TX: Schlager Group, 2010. 1186-1203.
New York Times Historical Newspapers - Articles from New York Daily Times (1851-1857) and New York Times (1857-2001). Viewing requires Adobe Acrobat.
Newspaper Archive - Full-text articles from a wide range of historical newspapers. [ World Languages Options ]
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