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Chapter 24: The United States and the Second World War, 1939-1945

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    A-bomb WWW-Museum, http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
"An online museum about the atomic bomb and the effect of its use on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The site, created by Mitsuru Ohba and John Benson in cooperation with the city of Hiroshima and several other groups, has a strong antinuclear weapon perspective. It contains photographs of the destruction, personal narratives of survivors, information on the bomb, and links to a number of other related sites."*

    Rosie Pictures: Select Images Relating to American Women Workers During World War II, http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/126_rosi.html
"From the Library of Congress prints and photographs division, images of "Rosie the Riveter." These images were published by the U.S. government to encourage and support women's work in the war effort during World War II. The images are photographs, posters, slides, and cartoons. Each image is cataloged with a title, date, and publication information."*

    Japanese American Exhibit & Access Project,
"An exhibit on the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II. One section focuses on the stories of the Japanese-Americans held at Camp Harmony, a temporary assembly center outside Seattle. Evacuees were held there for several months in 1942, before being transferred to long-term facilities for the duration of the war. Families and individuals held in Camp Harmony left records of their daily life and reactions to the camp in their letters and later writings on the experience. Memos, papers, and news articles from and about the camp are also included in the collection."*

    Poster Art from World War II, http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html
"An online exhibit of thirty-three full-color American posters from World War II. Created by the National Archives, the site is organized under topics such as the Four Freedoms and It's a Woman's War Too, and includes background information on each poster."*

    Rutgers Oral History Archive of World War II,
http://history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm
"A collection of oral histories from the World War II era. Developed by Rutgers University, the site contains contain in-depth interviews with men and women, many of whom are Rutgers graduates, on their war experiences at home and abroad."*

    The Avalon Project: World War II Documents,
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm
"A collection of official documents from the belligerent nations of World War II. Part of the Avalon Project at Yale University, the site contains the text of treaties, military directives, policy statements, and records of wartime conferences. Materials are arranged alphabetically both by title and by topic."*

    Wartime Journalism of the Afro-American,
http://www.afroam.org/history/OurWar/intro.html
"A collection of wartime journalism by Black writers that originally appeared in the Afro-American, a weekly newspaper in the Baltimore area. Maintained by The Afro-American Newspaper Company of Baltimore, the site also includes photographs, and brief biographies of the journalists."*

    Women Come to the Front, http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
"An online exhibit about women journalists during the Second World War. The exhibit was created by the Library of Congress and contains narrative about the experiences of women journalists during the war and in-depth sections about eight of the most prominent women correspondents, including Toni Frissell, Clare Booth Luce, and Dorothea Lange. The site contains narratives, photographs of the journalists, and images of their work."*

    World War II: A People at War, http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/people.html
"National Archives and Records Administration site on Americans' experiences in World War II. The project looks at the changing roles of women and minorities as a result of the war, at the conflicts in the European and Pacific theaters, at the new military technologies in arms and ammunition, and at the end of the war. These articles are illustrated with images, photographs, and documents from the archives."*