Newspaper: New York Times, both a picture and a transcript
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/
If you scroll, you can pick out major WWII dates. Otherwise put in the date you like in the search parameters.
Home Front
Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45)
http://americanhistory.si.edu/victory/: An excellent source for posters that show persuasion and the power of visuals.
http://www.archives.gov/boston/exhibits/homefront/index.html : Recordings, women at work, pictures, some video
Truman and the surrender of Japan: http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/ww2-195.jpg
The World at War
World War II Photos: absolutely wonderful site with extensive photographs and visuals – National Archives.
http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails/
1939-1941: The Voices Before the War
http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/ww2/1939/index.htm
World War II Resources
http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/index.html: The main site I used as a history teacher. Excellent teacher
resources on everything. Lesson plans also included.
National WWII Memorial "Save Our History" Teachers Guide and
Interactive Timeline
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=education.asp&subpage=teachersguide: This site has a nice set of
extension lesson plans and great links. It also has a section on intolerance and genocide that is geared 4th – 6th.
Navajo Code Talkers:
Article: http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-navajo-code-talkers.htm
Interview with Code Talker Nez: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/interview-with-navajo-code-talker-chester-nez.htm
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2001/winter/navajo-code-talkers.html
Focus on Britain
World War 2: Thousands of children sent to safety
All evacuation plans work without a hitch as thousands of children are sent to safety in the
countryside. Article first published in the Daily Telegraph, Sept 2, 1939
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/6086116/World-War-2-Thousands-of-children-sent-to-safety.html
World War Two anniversary: how news broke that 'Britain and Germany are
at war': Archive news reel from 1939 announces the official declaration of the Second
World War with the words "the fateful hour has struck, Britain and Germany are at
war": Video from September 3, 1939.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11071775/World-War-Two-anniversary-how-news-broke-thatBritain-and-Germany-are-at-war.html
Japanese Internment Camps
Further explore the Japanese American experience during World War II
through these selected online links and other resources
http://www.children-of-the-camps.org/resources/index.html
D-Day: http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/d-day.html
http://www.archives.gov/global-pages/larger-image.html?i=/research/military/ww2/images/d-day-orderl.jpg&c=/research/military/ww2/images/d-day-order.caption.html