Resources

Mussolini & His Troops

-Reading-

Europe: 1870-1991 by Terry Morris and Derrick Murphy

Germany: 1918-1945 by Greg Lacey and Keith Shephard

GCSE Modern World History by Ben Walsh

The Global War by Josh Brooman

Hitler Book 1 and Book 2 by Mary Fulbrook

Hitler's Germany by Josh Brooman

Germany 1918-1945 by Greg Lacey and Keith Shephard

Encyclopedia in library as well as assorted books. See the librarian.

-Online Lectures-

Rise of Nazis

Collaboration and Resistance by Professor Merriman

Totalitarianism: Hitler and Stalin

Hitler & WWII

Historiography Discussion focusing on Patrick Buchanan’s book on WWII

Four podcast lectures by Professor Richard Evans on WWII

Age of Anxiety in the 1920s

WWII, Eugenics & Racial Murder, Nazi State, Aftermath of the War: Professor Scheck

Origins of the Cold War

-Web Sites-

• • Encyclopedia of WWII

  • Biography of Hitler

  • Causes of WWII

  • History Learning Site Directory of Resources on 1920’s Germany

  • CasaHistoria

• • Directory of WWII Sites

  • WWII Portal Site

  • BBC Review of WWII

  • Limited vs Total War

  • Total War

  • Limited War

  • Directory II of WWII Sites

  • Resistance Movements I II III

  • Films from the Home Front in Britain

  • Oral Histories of the War

  • Quebec Conference 1943

  • Tehran Conference 1943

  • Potsdam Conference 1945

  • WWII primary source documents

  • Nazi Propaganda

  • Nazi Propaganda II

  • Invasion at Normandy (Operation Overlord)

  • Holocaust

  • Holocaust: How & Why Could It Have Happened? (Student created site)

  • About.com WWII Directory

  • History Channel

  • Student-created Wiki on WWII (Textbook project by international students. Links on left side of page.)

  • Dropping of Atomic Weapons on Japan (primary sources)

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing

  • Atomic Bombing Decision

  • Effects of Nagasaki Bombing

  • Survivors of Atomic Bombing

  • Survivor Accounts of Atomic Bombing

  • Directory of Sites on Atomic Bomb Decision

  • Manhattan Project

  • Truman Library Documents on Atomic Bombing Decision

  • Questia for Online Journals (pay site)

-Videos-

• • Frank Capra’s Documentary on Germany 1 of 8 (famous American director)

  • Seeds of War by Walter Cronkite 1 of 11 (American newscaster)

• DocuWatch

  • Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima

  • The Fall of France

  • The Blitz

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • Living Through the Blitz

  • D-Day: Operation Overlord

  • World at War: U-boats (5 episode series)

  • Overview of War in Pacific

  • World at War: the Pacific (5 episode series)

  • 1942 Battle of Midway in the Pacific (6 episode series)

  • World at War: Japan (5 episode series)

  • The World at War: Banzai-Japan (Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6)

  • World at War: Europe (5 episode series)

  • Tanks “Blitzkrieg” (5 episode series)

  • World at War: North Africa (5 episode series)

  • World at War: Genocide (5 episode series)

  • World at War: Operation Barbarossa (6 episode series)

  • World at War: Stalingrad (5 episode series)

  • Battlefield Stalingrad (5 episode series)

  • World at War: Red Star-Leningrad (5 episode series)

  • Siege of Leningrad (11 episode series)

  • World at War: Overview of the War

  • World at War: Occupation (5 episode series)

  • World at War: Inside the Reich (5 episode series)

  • World at War: The End of the War (5 episode series)

  • World at War: Last Days and the Atomic Bomb (5 episode series)

  • World at War: The Bomb

  • The War Ends (Joost site)

  • Cold War Beginnings & Historiography

-Documents-

• • Two Nazi foreign policy lectures lectures on Germany in 1930’s

  • Listing of Documents on the Dropping of the Bomb

  • Primary Source Documents on American Foreign Policy on Hiroshima

-Historiography of the Bombing of Hiroshima-

• • Background on Bombing

  • History News Service (HNS)

  • HNS II

  • HNS III

  • Article on the Historiography of Hiroshima (PDF to download)

  • Primary Source Documents from Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagazaki

  • Directory of Related Sites Focused on the Bombing (Dated resource so some links might not work.)

  • Hiroshima Peace Museum

  • Interview by author Studs Terkel with Paul Tibbets (pilot of Enola Gay)

  • Review of Historiography of Atomic Bombing

  • Review of History Book about Decision to Bomb