World War II Resources
Mr. Hoberg

Second Lt. William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko greet each other, symbolizing
the historic meeting of the U.S. and Soviet armies near Torgau, Germany, on April 25, 1945.
East meets West. National Archives and Records Administration.
Retrieved May 4, 2006 from Thomson Gale Student Resource Center Gold database

 
Books
Consult your handout for suggested WWII collections and call numbers, or search for specific keywords using the library's online catalog, LIBNET.
 
Infotrac Student Resource Center Gold
Reference, magazine, and newspaper articles as well as primary source documents.
Go to the Library Homepage, click on the InfoTrac link, and follow the instructions on the handout.
 
Web Search Directories

Librarian's Index to the Internet - "Websites You Can Trust" - A human-edited, searchable directory of Web sties
http://lii.org/

Goggle Directory and The Open Directory Project - "The largest most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web."
http://www.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Wars_and_Conflicts/World_War_II
/

 
Web Sites - General

Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/newspapers/intro_e.html
More than 144,000 newspaper articles, mostly Canadian, covering every aspect of" World War II. Search for your topic; includes special focus on the Holocaust and specific battles. The articles download as PDF files.

WWII Archives
http://wwiiarchives.net/servlet/references.tmpl
"Large collection of photographs, documents and information about World War II, with content covering the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Germany, Italy and Japan."
Also check Resources and Exhibits links in upper right of screen.

World War II Links from the Multnomah County Library
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/warwldhc.html#ww2
This site includes several World War II megasites, as well as links to sites on:
•The Marshall Plan
• D-Day / Normandy
• Japanese-American Internment
• Hiroshima & Manhattan Project
• Hitler & Nazism
• The Holocaust
• Pearl Harbor
• World War II Posters & Propaganda
Web Sites - Specific (found through Librarian's Index to the Internet, Google Directory, or the Multnomah County Library)

Japanese Internment Camps

Japanese Internment Camps
http://www.janm.org/exhibits/breed/title.htm
Over 250 letters written by young Japanese Americans incarcerated in America's World War II internment camps.

Museum of the City of San Fransisco
http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html
Newspaper articles from the San Francisco News in the 1940s regarding Japanese-American internment.

Nuremburg Trials

Harvard Law School Library Nuremburg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1&text=overview
Trial documents and transcripts from the 12 Nuremburg Trials.

Pearl Harbor

WWII Archives
http://wwiiarchives.net/html/campaigns/pearl/index.html
Extensive resources, including primary documents and photographs.

Weapons

Weapons: China Lake History, Projects, Information
http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/clmf/
"Provides a history of the Naval Air Weapons Station at China Lake, Calif., established in 1943, specifically, its development and testing of weapons systems used in various U.S. conflicts throughout the world since World War II". From the U.S. Navy.

 
 

Sam Arnold-Boyd
May 8, 2006