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Primary Sources: Language and Pocket Guides
Primary Sources: Language and Pocket Guides

Millions of US servicemen and women experienced this culture shock when they were stationed overseas during World War II. To assist in making the transition easier, the United States military issued pocket guides, which taught soldiers about the customs, geography, language and other cultural details of each country from The National WWII Museum

Primary Sources: Language and Pocket Guides
Vietnam War: Digital History
Vietnam War: Digital History
This chapter discusses how American became involved in southeast Asia; the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam war; reactions to the war on the homefront; President Nixon’s strategies for ending the war; and cultural reactions to the war.
Vietnam War: Digital History
Lesson 4: The Failure of Diplomacy, September - December 1941 | EDSITEment
Lesson 4: The Failure of Diplomacy, September - December 1941 | EDSITEment
Students in this lesson will put themselves in the shoes of U.S. and Japanese diplomats in the final months of 1941, earnestly trying to reach a settlement that will avoid war. Through the use of primary documents and an interactive map and timeline, they will consider whether there was any reasonable chance of preventing the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific.
Lesson 4: The Failure of Diplomacy, September - December 1941 | EDSITEment
Lesson 4: Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 | EDSITEment
Lesson 4: Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 | EDSITEment
This lesson will guide students through the military campaigns of the Pacific theater, tracing the path of the Allied offensives. Through an examination of historical documents and the use of an interactive map, students will gain an understanding of what the Allies were trying to accomplish, and why. Moreover, they will consider the controversial issue of the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Lesson 4: Victory in the Pacific, 1943-1945 | EDSITEment
Lesson 4: FDR and the Lend-Lease Act | EDSITEment
Lesson 4: FDR and the Lend-Lease Act | EDSITEment
This lesson shows students how broadly Lend-Lease empowered the federal government-particularly the President-and asks students to investigate how FDR promoted the program in speeches and then in photographs.
Lesson 4: FDR and the Lend-Lease Act | EDSITEment
Lesson 3: U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1939-1940 | EDSITEment
Lesson 3: U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1939-1940 | EDSITEment
hrough a study of contemporary documents, students learn about the difficult choices faced by the Roosevelt administration during the first fifteen months of World War II, culminating in the decision to provide direct military aid to Great Britain.
Lesson 3: U.S. Neutrality and the War in Europe, 1939-1940 | EDSITEment
Lesson 1: Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 | EDSITEment
Lesson 1: Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 | EDSITEment
This lesson plan will focus on the overall strategies pursued by the Japanese and the Allies in the initial months of World War II in Asia and the Pacific. By examining military documents and consulting an interactive map of the Pacific theater, students will compare what each side hoped to accomplish with what actually happened. Also, students will have an opportunity to read personal accounts by those who fought in the Pacific War, giving them a glimpse of what conditions on the battlefront were actually like.
Lesson 1: Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941-1943 | EDSITEment
Lesson 1: The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932 | EDSITEment
Lesson 1: The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932 | EDSITEment
Using contemporary documents, students in this lesson will explore the rise of animosity between the United States and Japan. It will begin with Japan's "Twenty-One Demands" on China during World War I, and will continue through the Manchurian Incident of 1931.
Lesson 1: The Growth of U.S.-Japanese Hostility, 1915-1932 | EDSITEment
Lesson 1: Sources of Discord, 1945-1946 | EDSITEment
Lesson 1: Sources of Discord, 1945-1946 | EDSITEment
This lesson will examine the U.S.-Soviet disagreements regarding Germany and Eastern Europe. Students will read excerpts from the agreements reached at Yalta and Potsdam, then, based on later documents, will study how these arrangements unraveled. Finally they will look at two opposing American views of the Soviet Union and of the strategy that the United States should use in dealing with it.
Lesson 1: Sources of Discord, 1945-1946 | EDSITEment
VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 on Vimeo
VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 on Vimeo
Four minute color home movie clips o VJ filmed in Honolulu; edited together with a soundtrack of Jimmy Durante singing "I'll Be Seeing You," it's pretty hard not to get chills.
VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 on Vimeo
Pacific War Animated
Pacific War Animated
Several battle campaigns are illustrated with unique map animations, showing troops dispositions
Pacific War Animated
Einstein's Letters to Roosevelt
Einstein's Letters to Roosevelt
Einstein tells FDR that "it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated"
Einstein's Letters to Roosevelt
Doctor Atomic
Doctor Atomic
Explore the scientific, historical, and cultural context behind a new opera about the first atomic bomb test from Exploratorium Quite an innovative site combining text, images and historical recordings.
Doctor Atomic
Independent Lens . THE POLITICAL DR. SEUSS | PBS
Independent Lens . THE POLITICAL DR. SEUSS | PBS
Dr. Suess also made political cartoons that denounced racism, isolationism and other issues of the day - this companion site for a documentary film about his political work includes articles and a gallery of images.
Independent Lens . THE POLITICAL DR. SEUSS | PBS
Hiroshima Archive
Hiroshima Archive
Inspired by the photographic work "Hiroshima" by Japanese artist Hiromi Tsuchida, The Hiroshima Archive was originally set up to join the on-line effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing. The archive is intended to serve as a research and educational guide to those who want to gain and expand their knowledge of the atomic bombing.
Hiroshima Archive