Italian
Fascism |
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Benito
Mussolini, What Is Fascism (1932)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
The Italian dictator describes his program. |
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Nazi
Ideology |
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Adolf Hitler: First Antisemitic
Writing (September 16, 1919)
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/hitler2.html
Hitler's early anti-Semitic ideas.
The 25 Points (1920)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/25points.html
An early statement of Nazi principles.
Adolph Hitler, Excerpt from
Mein Kampf (1925)
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/hitler1.html
Hitler discusses the development of his anti-Semitic ideas.
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Nazi
Policies |
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The Nuremberg Laws
Kristallnacht (1938)
http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/knacht.html
Hitler Signs an Order Authorizing
Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany (October 1939)
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/nazi/euthanasia-eng.html
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The
Road to War |
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The Nanking Massacre, The New
York Times (December 18, 1937)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nanking.html
The Munich Pact, (September
29, 1938)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/munich1.htm
Neville Chamberlain: Peace
in Our Time (1938)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1938PEACE.html
Nazi - Soviet Relations (1939-1941)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/nazsov/nazsov.htm
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (August
29, 1939)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1939pact.html
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The
War In the European and Pacific Theaters |
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Documents of World War II
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm
Extensive collection of documents, including many decoded secret
Japanese dispatches.
Winston S. Churchill, "We
Shall Fight on the Beaches"
Speech to the House of Commons, June 4 1940
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111chur.html
Winston S. Churchill, "Blood,
Toil, Tears and Sweat" Speech, 1940
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html
Winston S. Churchill: "Their
Finest Hour", To the House of Commons, 18 June 1940
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1940churchill-finest.html
British Songs of World War
II
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/ww2-music-uk.html
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The
Pearl Harbor Attack |
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Pearl Harbor Attack Hearings
Before Congress
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/invest.html
Pearl Harbor Attack Documents
(1941)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941PEARL.html
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The
United States Homefront |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt , A Call
for Sacrifice (April 28, 1942 )
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942roosevelt-sacrifice.html
Describes the need to increase government control over the economy.
What Did You Do in the War
Grandma?
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html
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The
Holocaust |
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The Final Solution:
The Wannsee Conference Protocol
(January 1942)
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/nazi/wanneng2.html
Heinrich Himmler: Speech to
SS Group Leaders at Posen (October 4, 1943) http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-posen.htm
A statement of Nazi policies.
Hermann Friedrich Graebe, Account
of Holocaust Mass Shooting (1942)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942graebe.html
An eyewitness account of a mass shooting.
Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of
Auschwitz, Testimony at Nuremburg (1946)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946hoess.html
The Death Camps
http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/yvscamps.html
http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/yvsdocs.html
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/topics/
Teaching resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
PDF format
http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/teachabo/
teaching_holcaust.pdf
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Development
and Deployment of the Atomic Bomb |
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Documents Relating to American
Foreign Policy--Hiroshima
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/hiroshim.htm
An extensive collection of documents related to the Manhattan
Project and the decision to deploy the bomb.
Documents on the Decision to
Drop the Bomb http://www.whistlestop.org/study_collections/bomb/large/bomb.htm
Extensive materials from the
Truman Archives.
Hiroshima: Was It Necessary
http://www.doug-long.com/
Includes excerpts from President Truman's diaries and papers and
Secretary of War Henry Stimson's diary and papers.
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Nuremberg
War Crimes Trial |
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Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
Court TV: Nuremberg Documents
http://www.courttv.com/casefiles/nuremberg/
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr., Nuremberg
- A Fair Trial? Dangerous Precedent, The Atlantic Monthly, April
1946
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nurember/wyprec.htm
Charles E. Wyzanski Jr., Nuremberg
in Retrospect, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1946
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/nurember/retrowy.htm
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