On the Road to World War II &the Conferences of the War


ON THE ROAD TO WAR
Chronology Pre War
World War II Timeline - 1917-45
The Interwar Years: 1919-1939
The World at War - Global Timeline 1918-48
  A chronology of Dictatorial Regimes between the World Wars 
  Versailles Treaty contents - plus maps, photos, charts, and cartoons relating to the Treaty.
Reparations and War Guilt -- Treaty of Versailles 1919 
  The Legacy of Versailles 
  The Treaty of Versailles (1919) 
  The Effect of the Versailles Treaty 
  Key Articles from the 1919 Treaty of Versailles that Would Cause WWII  
  A German View of the Treaty of Versailles
  The Failure of World War I 
   MAP: The World, Political Realignment, 1919 
MAP: Europe, Political Realignment, 1919
  OUTLINE: American Foreign Policy 1920-1940 
    U.S. Foreign Policy 1920-1941 
1921-1936: Diplomacy of Isolationism
  Steps to War: VERSAILLES TREATY to POLISH BLITZKRIEG 1919-1939 
   10 Steps to War 1931-1941
To War or Not To War
  How the war started
The Causes and Consequences of World War II 
Between World Wars
U.S. Military History: Between World Wars
  Prelude to War - Germany - France - Great Britain  
  People at War: Prelude to War 
  IGCSE History - Inter-War Period 
IGCSE History - Inter-War Period - IGCSE - what led to war.
IGCSE History - Inter-War Period - Versailles & League of Nations - great summaries
IGCSE History - Inter-War Period - Treaties 
IGCSE History - Inter-War Period - Weimar
IGCSE History - Inter-War Period - Hitler's Germany
IGCSE History - Inter-War Period - Italy - The Rise of Mussolini
IGCSE History - Inter-War Period - Spain
     CONFERENCE ON THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT, 1922. 
  Washington Naval Conference 
Far Eastern Strategy and The Washington Conference of 1921-22 
  British and German Air Doctrine Between the Wars 
  German Secret Rearmament, 1934-5 
  1935 Nazi Propaganda for Rearmament 
  German Rearmament 
  Kellogg-Briand Pact 
  Dawes and Young Plans 
  Roosevelt and the Coming of War
   U.S. Foreign Policy Development under FDR 
  Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Public preceding W.W.II. 
  Passivity and Aggression in the West, through 1936 
  GERMAN AGGRESSION AND  THE DEBATE ABOUT INTERVENTION 
  Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy: 1933-39 (extracts) 
  The Rhineland Crisis, 1936: French Reaction 
  The Rhineland Crisis, 1936: British Reaction 
  The German-Austrian Anschluss, 1938: The British Reaction 
  The Czech Crisis, 1938: The British View 
Neutrality Acts
Lend-Lease program 
  Washington Goes to War
U.S. Reaction to Japan and Hitler = Isolationism 
  War and Crisis in Asia and Europe, 1937 to 1940 
   Mobilization in WWII
   China before WWII 
  Japan's Decision for War 
  Japanese History: Militarism and World War II 1912 - 1945 
  MAP: Japanese Occupation of China, 1940 
  Japanese Invasion of Manchuria 1931 
     Japan, China, Moscow and Mao, to 1936 
  Collective Security 
  The Origins of Fascism
    Peace For Our Time by Neville Chamberlain 
  The Munich Agreement, 1938 
  The Munich Pact 
The policy of appeasement
An Appeasement History
Interwar Appeasement as Naivete: Why Did Only Churchill See It?
1920-1940: Interwar Years or the New "Thirty Years War
Britain and France: A Deadly Appeasement 
  "Radio Days - Neville Chamberlain"
   1940 Man of the Year: Winston Churchill
   Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty
  The Nazi Occupation of Poland
  World War II Begins
   FOR PRIMARY SOURCES, CHECK OUT MY WWII PRIMARY DOCUMENTS PAGE.

DIPLOMACY & CONFERENCES OF THE WAR
1921-1936: Diplomacy of Isolationism
1937-1945: Diplomacy of the Second World War
The Politics of War
Diplomatic History
Conferences of WWII
The Avalon Project: Conferences During World War II
Atlantic Charter, August 1941
Arcadia (1st Washington) Conference, 1942 Churchill's Plan - Europe First
2nd Washington Conference, June 1942 - Churchill or Stalin?
The Quebec Conference between FDR and Churchill(Aug. 17-24, 1943)
CASABLANCA CONFERENCE, Feb. 12, 1943
The Casablanca Conference
Churchill, Roosevelt and the Casablanca Conference, 1943
SYMBOL | The Casablanca Conference | Home Page
CASABLANCA CONFERENCE COMMUNIQUÉ
MOSCOW CONFERENCE, October, 1943
CAIRO CONFERENCE, Nov. 1943
CAIRO CONFERENCE, November, 1943
Teheran Conference, 1943
THE TEHERAN CONFERENCE
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Yalta Conference, Feb. 1945
Yalta: The Cold War Begins
Potsdam Conference, July 1945
More info on WWII conferences can be found on my WWII Primary Documents page.

World War II Links on the Internet

General

World War II index from Yahoo is a good place to start World War II Resources from Larry W. Jewell with documents from the Pearl Harbor Working Group and from the former Byrd Archive, including FDR speeches, now at ibiblio World War II Discussion List Archives from WWII-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU since 1993 World War II links from Canadian Forces College in Toronto Hyperwar from Patrick Clancey with collections of government documents and military histories, now at ibiblio World War II on the Web and extensive list of links from Mark Conrad World War II Plus 55 David H. Lippman Documents from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School Documents at Mississippi State University from the war era Documents at Wiretap.spies.com World War I and Cold War links

A-bomb

Enola Gay Perspectives Fifty Years from Trinity special supplement from Seattle Times Hanford High Energy Weapons Archive from Carey Sublette and FAS

  • Leo Szilard home page with links to other atomic bomb pages
  • The man who dropped the bomb. Chicago Tribune's Bob Greene talks to Paul Tibbets, 83, the pilot of the Enola Gay.Here are his columns on Tibbets' recollections.
  • Trinity Atomic Test Site from Gregory Walker and FAS

    Aviation

  • American Aircraft of World War II from David Hanson is a reference site on over 140 U.S. aircraft used or designed by the U.S. in WWII. Photos and info. Search by name, type, or manufacturer
  • B-29 Superfortress by Gerd Eles and Paolo Pizzi from NavisMagazine
  • Battle-damaged B-17 Flying Fortresses is a photo gallery of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers that managed to get back to their bases despite serious battle damage during WWII.
  • Black Cat PBY Catalinas is a history of U.S. Navy PBY squadrons in the WWII Pacific that painted their Catalina flying boats flat black and attacked Japanese ships at night.
  • Boeing aircraft company short history
  • Bomber Command from the Canadian site The Valour and the Horror
  • Destruction of Dresden from Glenn Call
  • Elevon with Aviation History documents by Emmanuel Gustin and Joe Baugher formerly at the Byrd Archive
  • Flight-History in Calgary AB
  • George Rarey's cartoon journals of the 379th Fighter Squadron of P-47 Thunderbolts
  • Harvard aviation image index lists pictures of planes in various archives
  • Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story The Experiences of a B-17 Navigator in the 8th Air Force, from Tom Stelzriede
  • Naval Air War In The Pacific is a visual history of U.S. Navy and Marine air units in WWII Pacific. Includes photos, paintings, and text covering the men, aircraft, carriers, tactics, and battles.
  • P-38 page from pilot "Wild Bill" Boyd
  • Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, home of the International B-24 museum
  • Spitfire & Hurricane Museum at RAF Manston in Kent
  • Tribute to the Cactus Air Force is about the U.S. Marine, Navy, and Army Air Corps pilots who defended Guadalcanal from August-November 1942. Includes: history, photos, paintings, references.
  • United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (Pacific) 1 July 1946 and European from Chuck Anesi
  • WW2Hero.com on airman Theodore "Ted" Elman of the 376th Heavy Bombardment Group
  • WWII plane descriptions from the game Air Warrior include the North American P51 Mustang and the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt and the Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat

    Battles by Date

  • 1937 - Nanking Massacre and Nanjing Massacre Record and Documents
  • 1938 - Kristallnacht from the U.S. Holocaust Museum
  • 1940 - Battle of Britain from David Matusek
  • 1940 - Battle of Britain's airplanes features at the Spitfire & Hurricane Museum at RAF Manston in Kent
  • 1941 - Pearl Harbor
  • 1941 - Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal Vol. I of the History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II
  • 1941 - The Defense of Wake Dec. 10-23, Marines in World War II Historical Monograph
  • 1941 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines Marines in the Battle for Wake Island Marines in World War II Commemorative Series 1992
  • 1942 - Multimedia exhibit on the fall of Singapore and the 70-day Malayan campaign in 1942 from the National Museum of Singapore
  • 1942 - North African Campaign
  • 1942 - Philippine Islands 7 December 1941-10 May 1942 from CMH
  • 1942 - Battling Bastards of Bataan from Richard M. Gordon
  • 1942 - Midway from John Crossen
  • 1942 - Return to Midway from National Geographic Online features the expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard that discovered on May 19, 1998 the wreck of the Yorktown (6/1/98)
  • 1942 - Marines at Midway, Marines in World War II Historical Monograph, 1948
  • 1942 - Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 - 24 August 1943 from CMH
  • 1942 - The Aleutians Campaign June 1942--August 1943, United States Navy Combat Narrative, Naval Historical Center 1993
  • 1942 - China Defensive 4 July 1942-4 May 1945 from CMH
  • 1942 - Papua 23 July 1942-23 January 1943 from CMH
  • 1942 - First Offensive: The Marine Campaign For Guadalcanal Marines in World War II Commemorative Series 1992
  • 1942 - Guadalcanal 7 August 1942-21 February 1943 from CMH
  • 1942 - The U.S. Army Campaigns in World War II: Guadalcanal from CMH
  • 1942 - Guadalcanal Online The Campaign on Guadalcanal, August 7, 1942 - February 9, 1943. Featuring the 1st Marine Division.
  • 1942 - Guadacanal Diary of J. R. Garrett
  • 1942 - Pacific Counterblow The 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron in the Battle for Guadalcanal
  • 1942 - Third Battle of Savo, November 14-15, 1942. Excerpt from: Operational Experience of Fast Battleships: World War II, Korea, Vietnam. Second Edition, compiled and edited by John C. Reilly, Jr., Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington: 1989, pp 61-67.
  • 1943 - Death of Yamamoto April 18, 1943
  • 1943 - Tarawa Nov. 20-23, 1943
  • 1943 - Bougainville Nov. 1943
  • 1943 - Sicily 9 July-17 August 1943 from CMH
  • 1943 - Italian Campaign September 1943 - May 1945 from Steve Cole
  • 1943 - Central Pacific 7 December 1941-6 December 1943 from CMH
  • 1944 - The Marshall Islands Campaign January 31, 1944 - Feb. 8, 1944
  • 1944 - Naples-Foggia 9 September 1943-21 January 1944 from CMH
  • 1944 - Anzio 22 January-24 May 1944 from CMH
  • 1944 - Rome-Arno 22 January-9 September 1944 from CMH
  • 1944 - Normandy 6 June-24 July 1944 from CMH
  • 1944 - Normandy: 1944 from Encyclopedia Britannica
  • 1944 - In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 from from the Canadian site The Valour and the Horror
  • 1944 - 50th Anniversary of D-Day from nando.net
  • 1944 - Guts and Glory documentary on D-Day from American Experience
  • 1944 - Cross-Channel Attack - Army "Green Book" from CMH
  • 1944 - Omaha Beachhead (6 June-13 June 1944) from CMH
  • 1944 - Utah Beach to Cherbourg (6-27 June 1944) with maps, from CMH
  • 1944 - St-Lo (7 July - 19 July 1944) from CMH
  • 1944 - Paris Liberation is an online chronology of the events of August 1944 in France
  • 1944 - Operation Market Garden of 1944 from Pegasus in the Netherlands
  • 1944 - Scheldt
  • 1944 - Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge - Army "Green Book" from CMH
  • 1944 - NavisMagazine article on photo sequence of the US Navy attack on the Japanese fleet and battleship Musashi (Yamato's sistership) in the Sibuyan Sea on October 24, 1944, one of the chapters of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
  • 1944 - North Apennines 10 September 1944-4 April 1945 from CMH
  • 1945 - Po Valley 5 April-8 May 1945 from CMH
  • 1945 - Luzon 15 December 1944-4 July 1945 from CMH
  • 1945 - Okinawa
  • US Army in Northern Ireland, 1941-1945 from CMH
  • Defense of the Americas 7 December 1941-2 September 1945 from CMH
  • The Army Nurse Corps in World War II from CMH
  • The Women's Army Corps in World War II from CMH
  • U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II from CMH

    Books & Articles

  • World War II Seminar bibliography and recent book list
  • CMH Publications on-line from U.S. Army Center of Military History
  • Foreign Relations of the United Statesincludes online volumes 1900-01 and 1903-18 and since 1945
  • HistoryArticles.Com feature articles by Jerome M. O'Connor
  • Scenes from the End: The Last Days of World War II in Europe by Frank E. Manuel from Steerforth Press, published February 2000.

    CD-ROMs

  • World War II Global Conflict and Sources & Analysis from Mentorom (see article by Lawrence Magid)
  • Almanac of World War II from Beachware
  • World War II, Selected Images from the National Archives from Harcourt Brace
  • Day After Trinity from Voyager (see review by B. Richard Latner)
  • Their Sacrifice from Australia Remembers and State Library of South Australia
  • World War I and World War II and War in the Pacific from Flagtower
  • World War II from IMSI
  • World War II Encyclopedia from Attica Cybernetics
  • World War II from Quanta (see review by R. Michael Smith)
  • The Holocaust from Quanta (see review by Stanley S. Seidner)
  • Battle of the Bulge from Quanta (see review from CD-ROM Today)
  • Wings Over Europe from Discovery Channel
  • D-Day: 100 Days of Destiny, and Normandy: Cradle of Liberty from Gazelle Technologies

    Countries

  • Library of Congress Area Handbook studies of countries of the world
  • CIA World Factbook with maps
  • Maps from the large collection at the University of Texas

  • Britain

  • Canada

  • China

  • Finland

  • Germany

  • Italy

  • Japan

  • Poland

  • Romania

  • Russia

  • Spain

    Documents

  • Deliverance! It Has Come! POW WWII Diary (1942-1945) from John S. Beaber about the internment of his missionary father Herman Baeber in the Los Banos camp in the Philippines
  • Diary of Emmett L. Newell, one of the 1200 construction workers on Wake Island in 1941 and POW in China until 1945, from Jody Newell (Nov. 18, 1999)
  • Historical Document Reproductions, Inc. has biographies, pictures, information about the documents that it offers for sale (Oct. 29, 2001)
  • Kilroy Was Here personal stories of WWII and Korean War from Patrick A. Tillery
  • MI5 (Security Service) records related to World War II from the UK Public Record Office
  • Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Proceedings from the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School includes all 22 volumes of the International Military Tribunal proceedings at Nuremberg in 1946
  • Papers of Admiral Richard W. Bates are on-line in pdf format from the Naval War College. Bates commanded the cruiser USS MINNEAPOLIS (CA-36) in the bombardment of Wake Island, participated in the invasion of the Gilbert Islands and sank the Japanese light cruiser KATORI off Truk in April 1944. During May-August 1944, Bates was on the staff of the Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet. In September he served with the Seventh Fleet during the Philippine Islands campaign and in December was Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Battleship Division Two and was involved in the Lingayen-Luzon and Okinawa operations. (Nov. 18, 1999)
  • Spearheading with the Third Armored Division, narrative written in 1945 (Feb. 14, 1999)
  • Symbol - The Casablanca Conference from Simon Appleby including chapters from his book and essays such as the SS
  • Timewitnesses the stories of ordinary people in World War II, from Tom Holloway
  • Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and the Casablanca Conference by Simon Appleby is based on his dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. (10/6/98)
  • WWII Hastings includes the memories of Noel Care, an ex-Civil Defence WW2 worker, of his part in the conflict when a young resident of Hastings, England
  • WWII Document collections on USD History server and at ibiblio and Avalon and Mississippi State Historical Text Archive

    • Espionage

  • Bletchley Park Trust has a history of Station X; also Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War is the website for the history, science and engineering of cryptanalysis in World War II by Tony Sale, founder and curator of the Bletchley Park Museum.
  • Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II chapters from Bill Momsen originally published in Nautical Brass magazine includes bibliography
  • Cryptology page from Frode Weierud
  • ECM Mark II Sigaba machine from Jerry Proc and his Crypto Machines site, about the device used by the USS Pampanito
  • Imperial War Museum includes War Cabinet Rooms
  • International Spy Museum at 800 F Street, NW, in DC to open June 2002
  • National Army Security Agency Association history of SIGNIT
  • National Cryptologic Museum from the National Security Agency
  • National Security Archive at George Washington University, with link to the Digital National Security Archives
  • ONI history from FAS
  • Secret History of WWII special report from Boston Globe, April 15, 2001
  • Secrets of War from The History Channel is a 26 hour documentary series in 52 episodes.
  • Sigsaly story from NSA
  • Uboat.net includes Enigma and U-110
  • United States Early Radio History includes History of Communications-Electronics in the United States Navy 1963 book by Captain Linwood S. Howeth
  • Winston Churchill and the Bombing of Coventry from the Churchill Center
  • World War II from BBCi History

    • Holocaust

  • Holocaust links from Mark Conrad
  • Holocaust history from the U.S. Holocaust Museum
  • Index of Bulgarian Jews in WWII.
  • Varian Fry saved thousands from the Holocaust in 1940 France
  • The Holocaust on Trial from Atlantic Monthly Feb. 2000

    Homefront

  • Mobilization in World War II from CMH
  • Exhibit of photos from a German POW camp in Oregon.
  • Camp Aliceville History of the German POW camp in Aliceville, Alabama
  • Fighters on the Farm Front is an exhibit from the Oregon state archives.
  • War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
  • Japanese-American internment camps at Tule Lake and Topaz
  • Camp Harmony was the Puyallup Assembly Center for Japanese-Americans near Seattle.
  • Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45) from Smithsonian
  • Images of the Home Front: The World War II Experience in America from Primary Sources Network
  • World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed A Nation exhibit from the National Building Museum
  • Profile of Carl Vinson

    Library of Congress

  • American Memory home page or list by historical eras
  • America From the Depression to World War II: Photographs From the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
  • Library of Congress Area Handbook Country Studies

    Maps

  • CIA World Factbook with maps
  • Omaha Beach Intelligence Assault Map from Michael Richards
  • World War II maps from CMH at UT
  • World War II maps from USMA at West Point
  • World War II Maps from World War II Timeline

    Maritime

  • Aircraft Carriers USS Lexington (CV16) and USS Wasp (CV18) and escort carrier USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107)
  • American Merchant Marine at War
  • Battleships USS Alabama and USS Arizona and USS Missouri and USS New Jersey and USS North Carolina
  • Battleships Carriers And All Other Warships
  • Battleship Page from the Iowa Class Preservation Association
  • Cruiser USS Augusta
  • Destroyers On Line
  • Full Fathom Five: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan
  • German battleship Bismarck
  • German Uboats in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45
  • Liberty Ships SS John W Brown and SS Jeremiah O'Brien
  • LST 454 Home page from Scott A. Molski, Anthony V. Giglio
  • Maritime Disasters of World War II from George Duncan
  • North Atlantic U.S. Military Bases
  • Pacific Naval Battles map
  • Pacific War from Michael Haenel (in German), focusing on Hokkaido Bay and the waters north of Tokyo
  • PT Boat page
  • Submarines USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor and USS Cavalla in Galveston and USS Cod in Cleveland and USS Cobia and USS Crevalle in Portsmouth and USS Pampanito in San Francisco and USS Silversides in Muskegon, Michigan, and German U-505 in Chicago
  • U-boat Net from Gudmundur Helgason
  • United States Naval and Shipbuilding Museum has the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
  • United States Navy in WWII: Primary Source Documents
  • U.S. Navy in the Pacific War 1941 - 1945 from Tim Lanzendoerfer
  • Warships Associated With World War II in the Pacific by Harry A. Butowsky, online book from National Park Service History Division, May 1985
  • World War II "Silent-Service" from Subnet
  • Blue Water Navies from JD Jones

    Mass Media

    • Atlantic Monthly stories:
    - The Real War 1939-1945 by Paul Fussell, August 1989.
    - One War is Enough by Edgar L. Jones, Feb. 1946, opposed peacetime conscription.
    - "Is This Like Your War, Sir?" The line of battle, 1944-1945 by Arthur T. Hadley, September 1972, compares WWII with Vietnam.
  • Audie Murphy Memorial Web Site
  • Dr. Seuss Went to War provides the entire collection of 400 editorial cartoons drawn 1941-43 by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) when he was the chief editorial cartoonist for PM newspaper in New York, from the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.
  • Ernie Pyle
  • Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives, includes gallery for The Great War and the New Era, The Great Depression and the New Deal, A World in Flames (World War II), Postwar America, and Century's End
  • Picasso's Guernica Unveiled shows details of the famous painting, from Alan Carter
  • They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II from PBS
  • World War II Navy Art: A Vision of History from The Navy Art Gallery
  • War of the Worlds transcript and articles on the 1938 radio broadcast

    • Movies:
    - First Motion Pcture Unit (FMPU) of the 18th Air Force Base Unit stationed at "Fort Roach" in Culver City CA
    - Military Aviation Movie List compiled by Marshall Cram from Flightline II
    - Ten Best American Movies of World War II from American Heritage magazine, Feb. 1999
    - Filmnotes for the Hollywood feature films The Bridge on the River Kwai and A Bridge Too Far and Casablanca and Das Boot and Enemy at the Gates and The English Patient and The Fighting Seabees and The Fighting Sullivans and Flying Tigers and Foreign Correspondent and The Glenn Miller Story and The Last Emperor and The Longest Day and Memphis Belle and Mission to Moscow and Mrs. Miniver and Patton and Pearl Harbor films and Ramparts We Watch and Sahara and Saving Private Ryan and They Were Expendable and This Is the Army and To Hell and Back and U-571

    Museums & Exhibits

  • A-Bomb WWW Museum
  • American Air Museum in Duxford, England, opened in 1997
  • American Battle Monuments Commission schedule of ceremonies observing the 55th anniversary of D-Day
  • Arizona Memorial Museum Association and USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • Caen Memorial at Caen, France
  • Canadian War Museum
  • Duxford Aviation Museum of the Imperial War Museum
  • Ernie Pyle State Historic Site from Scripps Howard Foundation grant
  • FDR Memorial in Washington, DC
  • Imperial War Museum in London
  • MacArthur Memorial at Norfolk, Va.
  • Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah
  • Motts Military Museum near Columbus Ohio
  • Museum of World War II in Natick MA has virtual tours of collections
  • National D-Day Memorial Foundation in Bedford, VA, to open May 31, 2000, funded in part by a grant from Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schultz
  • National Iwo Jima Memorial Monument from the Iwo Jima Survivors Association
  • National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola Florida
  • National World War II Memorial is planned for the Mall in Washington DC
  • RAF Museum at Hendon
  • Seabee Museum at Port Hueneme, CA
  • Tvrz Bouda at Kraliky, Czech Republic (in Czech)
  • U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum at Fort Gordon GA includes History of Communications Equipment and crossed flags history
  • War in the Pacific National Historical Park on Guam
  • War Museums - Places of Remembrance Throughout Europe describes museums by country and name
  • World War II Through Russian Eyes from the Historical Achievements Museum, the traveling exhibit of artifacts from the Russian Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow opened August 6, 1998 in the Ronald Reagan Building and Center for International Trade, Washington, D.C., through September 1 (Washington Post article and RFE article), then to Memphis through Jan. 31, 1999, will be in San Diego in Balboa Park from March 12 through July 4, 1999 (San Diego Union article)
  • Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel
  • Yahoo index of WWII Museums and Memorials

    National Archives

  • National Archives home page
  • Powers of Persuasion and A People at War are from the Exhibit Hall
  • NAIL recently added collections
  • National Archives photos from the Grolier WWII Commemoration site

    Propaganda

  • Canadian War Poster Collection
  • EarthStation1: The Radio Propaganda Sounds & Pictures Page
  • German Propaganda Archive from Randall Bytwerk at Calvin College
  • Old Eagle's Posters Archive
  • Propaganda from NSDAP Museum
  • Propaganda Leaflets of World War 2 from Hans Moonen
  • World War II Poster Database at Northwestern

    Special Subjects

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
  • International Churchill Societies have immortalized Winston Churchill on the web
  • Navajo Code Talkers
  • New Deal Network
  • Tanks! Armoured Warfare Prior to 1946 from Bill Kirk (Dec. 11, 1999)
  • U.S. Military Portable Radios by Alan D. Tasker
  • Wendell Willkie from Tim Walker (July 27, 1999)
  • World War II links from Jim West (Nov. 18, 1999)
  • World War II U.S. Veterans page from Dick and Dave Berry
  • The WWII Sounds and Pictures Page from Jim Kaelin

    U.S. Government

  • National Security Agency has on online tour of some exhibits in the National Cryptologic Museum
  • White House tour shows the Diplomatic Reception Room where FDR made his Fireside Chats
  • House of Representatives provides WAIS searches of legislation

    U.S. Military

  • U.S. Army
  • U.S. Navy
  • U.S. Navy Submarine Centennial
  • U.S. Naval Air Stations
  • U.S. AirForce
  • U.S. Marines
  • U.S. Marines (unofficial)
  • Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
  • U.S. Coast Guard
  • The U.S. Army's Center of Military History and Army Nurse Corps History
  • DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
  • Naval Historical Center and FAQs on topics
  • USAF Museum
  • Air Force Historical Research Agency is the repository for Air Force historical documents.
  • The official magazine of the U.S. Army Soldiers has had articles on WWII:

  • Unit histories

    What's New

  • Flight-History from Cathy Berglund in Calgary AB
  • World War II links from Tracey Osborn
  • Hawaiian Newspapers, War Records, and Trust Territory Image Collections from the University of Hawai'i System Libraries has 10,000 digital images 1848-present
  • Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
  • The Nanking Atrocities is based on the Master's thesis by Masato Kajimoto at the University of Missouri-Columbia and documents the Japanese occupation of Nanking in 1937-38.
  • A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 from Harvard University lists archival and bibliographic sources
  • Battle of Britain from the Royal Air Force (RAF) to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (July 10 to October 31, 1940)
  • DHM Picture Archive from the German Historical Museum
  • Dunkirk Remembered from the BBC , in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Dunkirk
  • Enola Gay and the Atomic Bomb from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has excerpts of the script from the Smithsonian Institution exhibit, "The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II," proposed for 1995 but never shown
  • Imperial War Museum Online Exhibitions include Battle of Britain and Enigma and Gallipoli 1915
  • Tour a U2540 Type XXI German submarine from 1945 using QuickTime VR, presented by Zeitraum GmbH
  • Stalag Luft I Online - 8,939 Allied Airmen were imprisoned during World War II as Prisoners of War by the Germans at Stalag Luft IÊ in Barth, Germany
  • The American Ex-Prisoner of War Organization
  • Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story The Experiences of a B-17 Navigator in the 8th Air Force, from Tom Stelzriede
  • Blue Water Navies from JD Jones
  • Kilroy Was Here personal stories of WWII and Korean War from Patrick A. Tillery
  • Italian Campaign September 1943 - May 1945 from Steve Cole
  • World War 2 Tour of Russia from White Nights and Arden Simoni
  • HistoryArticles.Com feature articles by Jerome M. O'Connor

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    bullet 1944:  Normandy 
    bullet The Battle of Britain
    bullet The Battle of Britain - British Imperial War Museum
    bullet Battleship Row:  A Photographic History of Pearl Harbour
    bullet British House of Commons Election Results:  1832-1983 (Spartacus Site)
    bullet British Songs of World War II 
    bullet Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
    bullet Churchill (PBS)
    bullet Churchill:  The Evidence (The Life & Times of Winston Churchill)
    bullet Decoding Nazi Secrets (NOVA)
    bullet Documents from the Holocaust
    bullet Documents of World War II
    bullet Documents on the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
    bullet "Enfranchising Women: The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945" - tutorial with documents and other resources
    bullet Enigma:  The Code Breakers
    bullet "Expression under Suppression: The Artistic Response to the Occupation of France during World War II" - Kristi V. Shanahan
    bullet Gallery of Holocaust Images
    bullet George VI of England (Spartacus Site)
    bullet German Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
    bullet Great Britain Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
    bullet The Home Front:  1939-1945 (Britain)
    bullet The Hiroshima Archive
    bullet The Hiroshima Photo Gallery by Hiromi Tsuchida
    bullet Hitler and World War Two - from the series "Lectures on 20c Europe"
    bullet Holocaust Denial On Trial
    bullet Holocaust on Trial (NOVA)
    bullet The Holocaust Timeline
    bullet The House of Saxe-Coburg-Windsor Genealogical Chart (England)
    bullet Japanese War Crimes Page
    bullet Learning About the Holocaust Through Art
    bullet The Life and Times of Winston Churchill
    bullet Map-->"Europe Before World War II: 1939
    bullet Map-->"Europe in the Summer of 1939"
    bullet Map-->"Farthest Limits of Japanese Conquest"
    bullet Map-->"Losses in World War II"
    bullet Map-->"The Second World War: 1939-1945"
    bullet Map-->"World War II in Europe"
    bullet Memorial Museums for the Victims of National Socialism
    bullet Newly Released Documents from British MI5 of Materials Relating to World War II
    bullet Nuremberg Trials Project -- Introduction
    bullet Paris' Liberation Page
    bullet People of Action During the First Half of the 20c
    bullet Revelations from the Russian Archives
    bullet The Rutgers Oral History of World War II
    bullet The Simon Wisenthal Center
    bullet To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue
    bullet Sir Winston Churchill
    bullet Soviet Archives Exhibit
    bullet The Third Reich Factbook
    bullet Trinity Atomic Web Site
    bullet The U-Boat War in the Atlantic:  1939-1945
    bullet Vatican Diplomacy Files Folder Titles List - FDR Library
    bullet The Wannsee Conference in the Development of the 'Final Solution'
    bullet The Wannsee Conference and the Genocide of the European Jews
    bullet Winston Churchill (Spartacus Site)
    bullet The World At War:  World War II
    bullet WW2:  The People's War (BBC)
    bullet "World War II" - lecture outline from MIT
    bullet World War II:  1939-1945
    bullet World War II Causes - essay with photos
    bullet World War II Factbook
    bullet World War II List of Propaganda Posters
    bullet World War II Photo Gallery
    bullet World War II Resources on the Web
    bullet World War II Timeline (Interactive)
    bullet World War II Timeline:  1917-1945
    bullet World War Two in Europe:  Timeline


    Primary Sources

     
    bullet 1939:  Order Authorizing "Euthanasia" - Adolf Hitler
    bullet 1939:  Neville Chamberlain's Speech on the German Invasion of Poland
    bullet 1939:  Neville Chamberlain's Speech to the British People Declaring War on Germany - audio file
    bullet 1939:  Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany - Hitler
    bullet 1939:  Speech to the German People - Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
    bullet 1940:  Air Battle Over London - Pilot Office John Beard (R. A. F.)
    bullet 1940:  "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" speech - Winston Churchill
    bullet 1940:  Edouard Daladier, Premier of France: "Nazis' Aim is Slavery" - radio address a few months before the German attack on France (1/29)
    bullet 1940:  Franco-German Armistice
    bullet 1940:  J-Book
    bullet 1940:  Labour Party Pamphlet
    bullet 1940:  "Their Finest Hour" speech - Winston Churchill
    bullet 1940:  Three Power Pact (9/27)
    bullet 1940:  The War Situation: "House of Many Mansions" speech by Winston Churchill (1/20)
    bullet 1940:  We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech by Winston Churchill
    bullet 1941:  The Atlantic Charter
    bullet 1941:  Cardinal Clemens von Galen Against Nazi Euthenasia
    bullet 1941:  "Four Freedoms" Speech - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
    bullet 1941:  German Declaration of War on the US (12/11)
    bullet 1941:  Hermann Goering Letter to Heydrich on the Final Solution
    bullet 1941:  Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
    bullet 1941:  The Manifesto of Ventotene
    bullet 1941:  Marxism, Capitalism, and Non-Alignment - Jawaharlal Nehru
    bullet 1941:  Nazi Soldiers Letters from Russia
    bullet 1941:  "Never Give In--Never! Never!" speech by Winston Churchill (10/29)
    bullet 1941:  Night and Fog Decree (12/7)
    bullet 1941:  Pact Between the Axis Powers Barring a Separate Peace Between the U. S. or Britain
    bullet 1941:  Women's Place in the 'Maximum National Effort' - Edith Summerskill
    bullet 1942:  An Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting - Hermann Friedrich Grabbe
    bullet 1942:  From the Supreme Teachings of Nazi Ideology to the Ramifications of Unprecedented Betrayal - Ursula Grosser-Dixon (a personal account)
    bullet 1942:  A form required by Jewish Medical professionals so they can practice on Jewish patients
    bullet 1942:  Mutual Aid Agreement [Lend-Lease] between the U. S. & the U. S. S. R.
    bullet 1942:  The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
    bullet 1942:  The Wansee Protocol
    bullet 1943:  The Casablanca Conference
    bullet 1943-45:  Living Through the Götterdämmerung of the Third Reich - Ursula Grosser Dixon (a personal account)
    bullet 1943:  "The Price of Greatness is Responsibility" - speech by Winston Churchill at Harvard University
    bullet 1943:  Racial Policy - SS pamphlet
    bullet 1943:  Speech to S. S. Group Leaders at Posen - Heinrich Himmler (with sound file)
    bullet 1943:  Tehran Declaration (12/1)
    bullet 1944:  The Bretton Woods Agreements (July)
    bullet 1944:  FDR Memorandum to the Secretary of State on Germany (9/29)
    bullet 1944:  The International Labor Organization Declaration Concerning Aims and Purposes (5/10)
    bullet 1944:  Invasion of Normandy - Marie-Louise Osmont (French women eyewitness)
    bullet 1944:  A Schutspasse {protective passes} issued by Raoul Wallenberg to Budapest Jews
    bullet 1944:  The Soviet Hymn/Anthem (lyrics and WAV file)
    bullet 1944:  Speech by Winston Churchill on the Allied invasion of France
    bullet 1945:  The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima - eyewitness account by Father P. Siemes, a German Catholic priest
    bullet 1945:  The Crimea Protocol
    bullet 1945:  Draft Letter about the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe - George Kennan
    bullet 1945:  Emperor Hirohito Announces Japan's Surrender
    bullet 1945:  The Fire Bombing of Dresden - a personal account by Lothar Metzger
    bullet 1945:  German Surrender Documents
    bullet 1945:  Hitler's Last Will and Testament     
    bullet 1945:  Japanese Surrender Documents
    bullet 1945:  Labour Party Manifesto (Eng.)
    bullet 1945:  The Last Broadcast of Lord Haw Haw - audio file
    bullet 1945:  The Potsdam Declaration
    bullet 1945:  Rapprochement between The Orthodox Church and Soviet Government - speech of M. G. Karpov at Council of the Orthodox Church
    bullet 1945:  Speeches by Winston Churchill on V-E Day
    bullet 1945:  Surviving the A-bomb Attack on Hiroshima - Dr. Michihiko Hachiya, eyewitness
    bullet 1945:  U. S. War Department Press Release on New Mexico A-Bomb Test
    bullet 1945:  The Yalta Declaration