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PROPAGANDA

 

 

RESOURCES :

• Winston Churchill’s plan to fight Nazis with massive aircraft carriers made from ice (io9.com)

  

   

  The Habbakuk Project - HABBAKUK: GEOFFREY PYKE'S ICEBERG AIRCRAFT CARRIER (royalnavalmuseum.org)

  
  SHIP OF ICE - Project Habbakuk
  "A documentary film about "Project Habbakuk" the unusual proposal that captured the imagination of Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten during WWII, and the fascinating, underwater, behind-the-scenes story of the building of its prototype on Alberta's Patricia Lake..."
  (YouTube)

  
   

  
  The Ice Ship Fiasco (goodeveca.net)
  

  “The difficulties will argue for themselves”: Mulberry Harbours and the D-Day Landings (pw20c.mcmaster.ca)
  
  

• Skeleton of hero World War II carrier pigeon found in chimney with a secret message still attached to its leg - 1 November 2012
  (and now Bletchley Park are trying to crack the code)
  + THE FEATHERED ARMY AND THEIR SECRET MILITARY MESSAGES
  Carrier pigeons "can reach speeds of 80mph and distances of 700 miles.
  The RAF trained 250,000 birds in World War II, forming the National Pigeon Service...
  Thirty-two pigeons were even decorated with the Dicken Medal during the war years - the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross." 
  (dailymail.co.uk)
  
  Quest to crack secrets of lost D-Day pigeon - ARTICLE + VIDEO
  "It was part of a very special air service crucial to the D-Day landings."
  (telegraph.co.uk)

 

• HIROSHIMA :
  
  
  

  • BBC ON THIS DAY : 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
    "The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima."
    (BBC)
  • Hiroshima - Listen now (10 minutes)
    "A school girl who was in the centre of Hiroshima when the atom bomb exploded tells her story.
    She talks of watching the death of those around her, and how she found the strength to survive."
    + In pictures: Hiroshima memorial + Japan marks atomic bomb anniversary + Surviving Hiroshima: Keiko Ogura
    + Japan pupils' atomic history lesson
    (BBC)
    
    
    
• The scars of the Second World War still line bomber country - 04 July 2012
  "The Queen will mark the huge sacrifices of the RAF when she unveils the Bomber Command memorial in Green Park."
  + Bomber command: Dambusters survivor at memorial unveiling - 28 Jun 2012
  + Every RAF Bomber Command base in England mapped - 28 Jun 2012
  (telegraph.co.uk)

• WW2 (history.co.uk)
  "1939-1945 - From its origins through to ultimate Allied victory, from the home front to the front line, explore History’s guide to the greatest conflict of all time, featuring expert video guides, archive footage and defining photographic images."

• From History on the Net (historyonthenet.com) :

  • World War Two Timeline
  • World War Two Statistics
  • Causes
  • German/Axis Successes/Failures
  • Conscription
  • The Blitz
  • The Home Front
  • Geneva Convention
  • German Prisoners of War in Britain
  • German Prisoner of War Camps
  • The Great Escape
  • Prisoner of War Camps in Japan
  • Japanese Internment Camps in America
  • Bibliography/Further Information
    
    
    
• From the BBC :

  World War 2
  
  
  
  
  WW2 People's War - an archive of WWTwo memories - written by the public, gathered by the BBC.
  47,000 stories and 15,000 images 
  
  
  

PICTURES :

• Picture Gallery (historyonthenet.com)
  
  
• Remembering the Holocaust - 14 photos (history.com)

 

POWERPOINTS :

• Free Powerpoints - WW2 (wars.mrdonn.org)

TIMELINE :

• Timeline of World War II (Wikipedia)

INTERACTIVE MAPS :

• Inside WWII and related media (history.com)
  "Go inside World War II and get new insight into the people, battles and events you thought you knew."

 

LISTENING :

• Hiroshima - Listen now (10 minutes)
  "A school girl who was in the centre of Hiroshima when the atom bomb exploded tells her story.
  She talks of watching the death of those around her, and how she found the strength to survive."
  (BBC)

• American History: World War II on the Home Front
  "While fighting raged in Europe and the Pacific, Americans made sacrifices at home to support the US military effort | THE MAKING OF A NATION"
  "Read, listen and learn English with this story. Double-click on any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary."
  (learningenglish.voanews.com)
• American History: D-Day Invasion of Europe
  "Read, listen and learn English with this story. Double-click on any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary."
  (learningenglish.voanews.com)
  
  

• Surviving the Holocaust (BBC)

 

WORKSHEETS :

• Worksheets (historyonthenet.com)

 

LESSON PLANS :

• WW2 - Lesson Plans (wars.mrdonn.org)

• WW2 - The US Home Front (unit index)  - (wars.mrdonn.org)

• WW2 - More Lesson Ideas - Neutrality, National Interest, Hiroshima  (wars.mrdonn.org)

• Free Wars & Actions Lesson Plans (wars.mrdonn.org)

• The holocaust (holocaust-education.dk)
  
  Suggestions for syllabi: 
  
  The Holocaust - specific topics
  Responsibility and guilt
  Holocaust denial
  How and why was the Final Solution initiated?
  
  Various
  Sources
  The Internet - tricks and traps

 

GAMES :

• Wordsearches (historyonthenet.com)
• Quickquizzes (historyonthenet.com)
• Crosswords (historyonthenet.com)

 

VIDEOS :

• Japan pupils' atomic history lesson (BBC)
  
  

• Blitz Wolf - Tex Avery -1942 WWII Cartoon (YouTube)
  
  
  Documents from Marina Bureaud (Ac. Poitiers) :
  

  • Blitz Wolf Worksheet
    
  • Correction
  • Tex Avery - Biography
  • Cartoons - Historical Events

  
  
  
•  London 1942 - A Picture of Wartime London - Duration: 13:41 (timeimage.wikispaces.com)
  
  
• Rationing in Britain (YouTube)
  "An American commentator looks at the effects of rationing on the people of England in 1944.
  The film presents a 'typical' family of 4 (housewife, engine-driver husband, factory-working daughter, schoolboy son) to illustrate the basic rationing system, the workings of 'point' systems and other restrictions, and the difficulties the average family faced when eating 'on the ration'."
  
  
  
  
• Evelyn born 1930 talks about 1939 evacuation of children (YouTube)
  
  
  
• Princess Elizabeth's (now The Queen) Broadcast to Children (1940) - (YouTube)
  "Princess Elizabeth and her sister Princess Margaret speak to the nation on Children's Hour in 1940."
  
  
  
• The Queen as a Mechanic (1945) - (YouTube)
  "Princess Mechanic - Princess Elizabeth Does Her Bit To Aid The War Effort". "Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) 2nd Subaltern is seen taking a driving course. Her parents, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (later Queen Mother) and her sister Princess Margaret come to visit Elizabeth and admire her handywork." 
  
  
  
  
• Battle of Britain Videos (history.co.uk)
  
  
• A conversation with a 108-year-old piano-playing Holocaust-surviving optimist (twentytwowords.com)
  
  
• The British Pathé War Archives (YouTube)

 

SERIES :

• The War (PBS)
  See videos on YouTube.
  
  

 

CINEMA :