America at War
This lesson discusses America's reluctance to enter World War I and World
War II and explains why the U.S. eventually did. Duncan and his father
visit San Francisco and learn about American life during the Great Depression
and the New Deal.
Explain the causes and effects of World War I.
The Great War: Interactive
Timeline
American Leaders Speak:
Recordings from World War I (Library of Congress)
Photos of the Great
War
Casualties:
First World War
Aces and Aircraft of World War
I
My Mother's War:
Mementos of World War I
The First
World War: Encyclopedia
World
War I Remembered
How did American life change during the 1930's? Can you
imagine living during the depression?
The Coolidge Era and
the Consumer Economy: 1921-29
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
American Life
Histories, 1936-1940
Photographs of America
from the Great Depression to World War II
Voices from
the Dust Bowl
Surviving
the Dust Bowl
USDA's Rural Utility
Service
New Deal Network
Coit Tower: Elizabeth Wyche "Lillie" Hitchcock Coit
America in the
'30's
Why did
the United States enter World War II? What were some of the results of
that war for the people and nations involved?
World War II:
The Homefront
Powers
of Persuasion: Poster Art from World War II
Produce for Victory:
Posters on the American Homefront
A
People at War
Women Come to the
Front
The Womens
Army Corps
The Coast
Guard and the Women's Reserve in WWII
This is Our War
The Tuskeegee
Airmen
The National D-Day Museum
Normandy, 1944
USS Arizona Memorial
Remembering
Pearl Harbor
World
War II Virtual Museum (War in the Pacific)
Truman's Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Remembering
Nagasaki
A-Bomb WWW Museum
Enola
Gay Exhibition
War Relocation Authority
Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
Dear Miss Breed:
Letters from Camp (Japanese-American children in internment
camps)
Holocaust: The Untold
Story
Aleutian World War II National
Historic Area
What have the nations of the world done to try to prevent
wars?
The League of Nations
The
United Nations: An Introduction for Students
About the UN
United Nations Peacekeeping
Missions
American Defenders
of Land, Sea and Sky
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