World War II (SS5H4)

Photograph of shipyard workers praying during the laying of a Liberty ship keel, J.A. Jones Construction Company shipyard, Brunswick, Georgia, 1943-1945?, Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia, Brunswick-Glynn County Library (Ga.). Special Collections 

SS5H4 Explain America’s involvement in World War II. 

1. Describe German aggression in Europe and Japanese aggression in Asia. 

2. Describe major events in the war in both Europe and the Pacific; include Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, D-Day, VE and VJ Days, and the Holocaust. 

3. Discuss President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

4. Identify Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Hirohito, Truman, Mussolini, and Hitler. 

5. Describe the effects of rationing and the changing role of women and African Americans or Blacks; include “Rosie the Riveter” and the Tuskegee Airmen. 

6. Explain the role of Eleanor Roosevelt and the U.S. in the formation of the United Nations.

Suggested Collections (DLG)

• Adolph Rosenberg Photographs, 1945-1955, undated (Atlanta History Center)

• Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room Collection (Athens-Clarke County Library)

• Atlanta History Photograph Collection (Atlanta History Center)

• Atlanta Housing Authority Photographs, 1940-1942 (Atlanta History Center)

• Bell Aircraft Corporation Photographs (Atlanta History Center)

• Belle Isle Family Photographs, circa 1900-1940 (Atlanta History Center)

• Courtney Hodges Collection (Houston County Public Library System)

• Cutler collection (Thomasville History Center)

• Edward Randolph Carter and Andrew Jackson Lewis collection (Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History)

• Eleanor Roosevelt at Georgia State Women’s College (Valdosta State University)

• Gay Bolling Shepperson Photograph Collection, 1933-1945 (bulk 1935-1937) (Atlanta History Center)

• Johnny Mize Collection (Piedmont College)

• Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar Papers (Hargrett Library)

• Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection (Atlanta History Center)

• Lamar Q. Ball photograph collection : World War II in Georgia  (Georgia Archives)

• Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976 (Georgia State University)

• Louis C. Harris Home Movie Collection (Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection)

• Oral history : veterans history project  (Atlanta History Center)

• Quillian-Ansley-Gates Collection (MC 180) (Columbus State University)

• Rendezvous with Destiny: World War II Oral Histories (Athens-Clarke County Library)

• Selections from the Records of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, 1924-1974 (Roosevelt Warm Springs Vocational Rehabilitation Campus)

• Ships for victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia (Brunswick-Glynn County Library (Ga.). Special Collections)

• WAVES (Georgia College and State University Special Collections)

• World War II Veterans Project (Southwest Georgia Regional Library System)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• World War, 1939-1945

• Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941

• Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945

• World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy

• V-E Day--1945

• V-J Day, 1945

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

• World War, 1939-1945--Jews

• Atomic Bomb, World War II

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

• Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989

• Harry S. Truman

• Adolf Hitler

• Rationing--United States

• World War, 1939-1945-- Food supply--United States

• World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States

• World War II--Women

• World War, 1939-1945--African Americans

• World War II, 1939-1945--African Americans

• Rosie the Riveter (Symbolic character)

• United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• United Nations--History

•  Tuskegee airmen

• Savings (War) Bonds

• Fort Benning

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• World War, 1939-1945--Causes

• World War, 1939-1945 

• Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941

• Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945

• World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy

• V-E Day, 1945 

• V-J Day, 1945

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

• World War, 1939-1945--Jews

• Atomic bomb--Hiroshima

• Nagasaki, World War, 1939-1945

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Joseph Stalin

• Winston Churchill

• Hirohito, Emperor of Japan, 1901-1989

• Harry S. Truman

• Harry Truman, Atomic Bomb

• Benito Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

• World War, 1939-1945--African Americans

• Rosie the Riveter (Symbolic character)

• United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd

• United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• United Nations--History

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• Atomic Bomb, 1938 to 1946

• Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations

• Georgia Newspapers, 1938 to 1945

• Holocaust, 1938 to 1946

• Pearl Harbor, 1938 to 1946

Chronicling America Newspapers

• "Atomic Bomb"

• "War in Europe"

• "War with Japan"

• Adolf Hitler (33-45)

• Anti-Semitism

• Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers (story map)

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Hiroshima OR Nagasaki

• Holocaust 

• Internment Camp

• Iwo Jima

• Joseph Stalin (38-45)

• Newspapers, 1938 to 1945

• Pearl Harbor

• United Nations (1938 to 1950)

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• Attacks on American Soil: Pearl Harbor and September 11

• Elie Wiesel’s Night and the Holocaust

• Georgia’s Home Front: World War II

• Golden Age of Radio in the US

• Japanese American Internment During World War II

• Mexican Labor and World War II: The Bracero Program

• The Atomic Bomb and the Nuclear Age

• The Rise of Italian Fascism and Its Influence on Europe

• Truth, Justice, and the Birth of the Superhero Comic Book

• Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs)

• World War II: Women on the Home Front

• World War II’s Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa

NGE Articles

• Bell Bomber

• Charles Dryden (1920-2008)

• Foreign Prisoners of War

• Fort Gordon

• Fort McPherson

• Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum

• Robert Scott (1908-2006)

• Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation

• Trainees during World War II

• Tuskegee Airmen

• U-Boat Attacks during World War II

• World War II in Georgia

• World War II Pilots

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources

• American Experience: FDR

• American Experience: Fly Girls

• American Experience: Truman

• Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady, Diplomat, and Activist

• Georgia World War II Oral History Project

• Georgia’s Women During World War II

• History Detectives: WWII Activity Pack

• PBS Learning Media: Visualizing World War II

• PBS Learning Media: World War II

• Revisiting Japanese internment on the 75th anniversary

• The Perilous Fight: Social Aspects

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• Chapter 18: America and Georgia in World War II

• Johnny Mercer: World War II

• Sophia’s Schoolhouse Episode 006: WWII US M1 Helmet

• Three Centuries of Georgia History: Twentieth Century Global Conflict

• World War II and Georgia (Today in Georgia History)

• World War II: German U-Boat Attacks (Today in Georgia History)

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