An Annotated List of the Most Valuable Online Resources on World War II

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America Goes to War
	The Avalon Project: World War II Documents http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm Official documents, including treaties, military directives, policy statements, and records of wartime conferences. Baltimore Afro-American Black History Museum http://www.afroam.org/history/scott/scotts.html This archive includes articles on the Tuskegee Airmen and the African American troops during the war. Poster Art from World War II http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/powers.html An online exhibit featuring 33 posters and one sound file examines the way that the government mobilized the public for war. Rutgers Oral History Archive of World War II http://history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm Interviews in which men and women describe their wartime experience. Women Come to the Front http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html This site examines the experiences of wartime women journalists. Okinawa http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/sarantakes/Okinawa.html This site contains Biographical Essays, Chronology, Photos, and Annotated Bibliographies. World War II Images http://webpub.alleg.edu/student/p/paynes/war.html http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/ww2photo.html http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/people.html World War II Song Lyrics http://homepages.go.com/~giacalones/WWII_lyrics.html World War II Resources http://metalab.unc.edu/pha/index.html An extensive collection of primary sources including diplomatic documents, the Pearl Harbor attack hearings, documents relating to military intelligence, and Roosevelt’s speeches.
Dawn of the Atomic Age
	A-bomb WWW-Museum http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html A Japanese site that contains information on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagisaki, which includes photographs and oral histories. Atomic Bomb: Decision http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html Documents on the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagisaki. Rare Footage Documents Devastation at Hiroshima http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9608/10/japan.hiroshima.film/index.html Footage of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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