WORLD WAR II
Document pack
The 20 sources are:
1. October 25, 1936 photograph of Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler—the official formation of the Axis between Germany and Italy
2. November 9, 1939 photograph of a burning synagogue during Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany
3. 1940 British propaganda poster titled “Dig on for Victory”
4. Photograph of the USS Arizona burning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941
5. Photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the declaration of war against Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 8, 1941
6. 1942 poster for Westinghouse Magazine advertising “Rosie the Riveter”
7. Photograph of American dive-bombers during the Battle of Midway, June 6, 1942
8. October 1942 photograph of women at work on bomber in the Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California
9. 1943 propaganda poster for Tuskegee Airmen
10. 1943 photograph of a World War II ration book
11. April 1943 photograph of a shopkeeper canceling the coupons in a British housewife’s ration book for tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon she is allowed for the week
12. May 1943 photograph from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
13. Photograph titled “Into the Jaws of Death” that shows U.S. troops wading through water and Nazi gunfire on D-Day
14. October 1944 photograph titled “I Have Returned” that shows General Douglas MacArthur returning to the Philippines
15. Photograph of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference
16. Photograph of the first Iwo Jima flag raising, February 23, 1945
17. Photograph of two men sitting after the liberation of Lager-Nordhausen Death Camp – April 14, 1945
18. 1945 photograph of the destruction near the city center of Berlin, Germany, after the Battle of Berlin
19. Photograph of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945
20. August 14, 1945 photograph titled “Kissing the War Goodbye” that shows the celebration of VJ Day in Times Square, New York City
This title is part of the series: PRIMARY SOURCE PACKS
Copyright | 2013 |
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Size | 8½" x 11" |
Publisher | Gallopade |
Grade | 5–12 |
ISBN | 9780635108425 |