USH- Summative Assessment

Economic

• The Great Depression and WWI (1929-1945) (Gale)

• Causes of the Great Depression (Gale)

• Causes of the Crash 1919-1929 (Gale)

• The Wall Street Crash of 1929

• Unemployment in the Great Depression

• The Great Depression 

• Economic History of the Great Depression (EBSCO)

• War Production Board: Donald Neslon (Gale)

• Business: Mobilization for WWII (Gale)

• The Economy: War Taxes and Financing (Gale)

• War Bonds (Gale)

• Post World War II (Gale)

• Lend Lease (Gale)

• World War II Labor Measures (Gale)

• National War Labor Board (Gale)

• The Home Front - Labor (Gale)

• Rationing and Government Controls (Gale)

• 1936: The Year of the Worker: Labor Action and Reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Social

• Children's Roles in WWII (Gale)

• Children and WWII

• Women with Wings: Women Pilots of WWII

• American Women in WWII

• American Women in WWII (video)

• Hidden in History: The Untold Stories of Women During WW I and II (EBSCO)

• Women in World War II

• Women in the Military During World War II

• Society During the Great Depression (EBSCO)

• Artistic and Cultural Expressions of the Great Depression (EBSCO)

• Post World War II (Gale)

• Tony Bennett Saw Racism and Horror in WWII (Gale)

• Japanese American Internment During WWII

• Japanese Internment

• Japanese Americans (Gale)

• Japanese American Internment During WWII

• African-Americans and the War (Gale)

• Determined to Serve: African American Women in WWII

• Double V Campaign (Gale)

• The Double V Victory

• Zoot Suit Riots (Gale)

• Zoot-Suit Riot (Gale)

• The Zoot-Suit Riots, 1943 (Gale)

Political

• Post World War II (Gale)

• How did Isolationism Contribute to the Cause of WWII? (Gale)

• Isolationism 1930-1941 (Gale)

• Lend Lease (Gale)

• Lend Lease Act (Gale)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt during the WWII years (video)

• The Leadership. Death and Legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Federation of American Scientists (Gale)

• Atomic Diplomacy

• Cold War (Gale)

• How the "Big Three" Teed Up the Cold War at the 1945 Yalta Conference 

• Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during WWII (Gale)

• Racism in Japanese in US Wartime Propaganda (Gale)

• Yalta Conference

• Potsdam Conference

• The First Amendment and World War II

• Birth of the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1954

• Atomic Bomb - overview (Gale)

• Nuclear Weapons (Gale)

• Nuclear Weapons - in the Postwar Era (Gale)

• Dawning of the Nuclear Age (Gale)

• Leo Szilard - one inventor in the development of the A-bomb (Salem Press - (mvhsmustangs)

• Luis Alvarez - one inventor in the development of the A-bomb (Salem Press)  (mvhsmustangs)

• The Manhattan Project -EBSCO

Military

• Major Battles of World War II

• World War II Battles: Timelines

• The War in Europe (chapter 3) - EBSCO 

• Italy Invades British Somalialand - EBSCO 

• Leclerc's Long March - EBSCO

• North Africa and Sicily  - EBSCO 

• Allied Forces Invade North Africa - EBSCO 

• Battles of WWII in the Pacific

• World War II - European Campaign vs. Pacific Campaign (Gale)

• US Marines: Was the "Island Hopping" of the US Marines an Effective Strategy? (Gale)

• Pacific Theater (Gale)

• Pearl Harbor (overview)

• The Bombing of Pearl Harbor (chapter 4) - EBSCO 

• War in the Pacific and Asia (chapter 5) - EBSCO 

• Last Air Battles of World War II -(select chapters) - EBSCO 

• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Selection of the Target (select chapters may be useful) EBSCO 

• Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?

• The Impact of Total War (Gale)

• The Battle of Midway

• D-Day and the Normandy Campaign

• Iwo Jima and Okinawa: Death at Japan's Doorstep

• The Four Fronts of World War 2 Military Tactics

• Training the American GI

• Army NCO History: WW II

• They Also Served: Coast Guard and Merchant Marines

• Buddies: Soldiers and Animals in WWII

• New Technologies Used During World War II

• Innovating for Victory

• Serving: Our Voices WWII

• National WWII Reunion and the Veterans History Project

• Navajo Codetalkers: First-POerson Narratives

Primary Sources

• Primary Sources Database

• Video on finding primary sources

• Docs Teach

Places to get media

• World War II Images from the Library of Congress

• Public Domain (free images, but give credit to original owner)

• LIFE magazine images

• JSTOR

• DocsTeach Primary Resources

General Academic Databases

*see comprehensive list here

*may need password

• Gale US History in Context (ipsd)

• Gale World History in Context (ipsd)

• Gale Virtual Reference Library: Americans at War Vol. 3 (1901-1945) (ipsd)

• Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Encyclopedia of US History: Government and Politics (ipsd)

• UXL Encyclopedia of US History - search within the publication or use the index to get specific (ipsd)

• Proquest databases (58-90196, big chalk)

• World Book Encyclopedia - Advanced (ipsd204, schools)

• EBSCO Explora High School (ipcusd, Library24!)

• JSTOR (meteavalley, mustang3)

Other reputable online resources

• WWII National Museum

• War Times Journal

• Library of Congress

• History.com

• Britannica.com

• World Digital Library

• Gilder Lehrman Collection of resources from American History

• Digital History

• Digital Public Library of America

• The Americans textbook

• Khan Academy: World Wars- mulitple topics