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WORLD WAR II

ARTICLES

Just two decades after the end of the First World War, the world again plunged into war in September of 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded the sovereign nation of Poland. The war would last until 1945.  World War II involved some of the most dramatic events in human history, including: some of the largest battles in human history, the Holocaust and the first use of atomic weaponry. Click below to learn more about specific topics related to World War II.

CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II

​|Causes of World War II
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​|Adolf Hitler's Rise to Power
​|Communism

​|Dictatorships
|Emperor Hirohito
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|European Theater of World War II
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|Fascism
​|Franklin D. Roosevelt
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|Germany's Invasion of Poland
|Harry S. Truman
|Hideki Tojo
|Hitler Youth
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|Holocaust
​|Holodomor (Ukraine Famine)
​|Home Front During World War II
​|Invasion of Italy in World War II
|Island-Hopping
​|Japanese-American Internment
​|Joseph Stalin
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|Lend-Lease Act

BATTLES OF WORLD WAR II

|Bombing of Dresden
|British Retreat at Dunkirk​​
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​|American Women During World War II
​|Appeasement
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|Atomic Bombing of Japan
​|Attack on Pearl Harbor
​|Battle of Britain
|Battle of Berlin
|Battle of the Bulge
|Battle of France
|Battle of Guadalcanal
|Battle of Iwo Jima
|Battle of Midway
|Battle of Okinawa
|Battle of Stalingrad
|Benito Mussolini
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|Blitzkrieg
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​|D-Day (Normandy Invasion)

PEOPLE OF WORLD WAR II

|Adolf Hitler
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|Maginot Line​​
|Manhattan Project
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|Nanking Massacre
​|Neville Chamberlain
|Nuremberg Trials
​|Non-Aggression Pact
|Operation Barbarossa
​|Operation Downfall
|Pacific Theater of World War II
​|Phoney War
​|Potsdam Conference
|Propaganda in World War II
|Robert Oppenheimer
|Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech
​|Treaty of Versailles
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|Were the Atomic Bombs Justified?
|Winston Churchill
|Why Didn't the USA Join in 1939?
|Why Was Japan So Hard to Defeat?
|Yalta Conference

EXTRA INFO

​|Image Archive of World War II
|Important People of World War II

|Important Terms of World War II
​|Infographics of World War II
|Timeline of World War II

ONLINE QUIZZES

|Appeasement Before World War II
|Atomic Bombing of Japan
|Battles of World War II
|Causes of World War II
|End of World War II
|Leaders of World War II
|Nazi Germany in World War II
|Rise of Hitler in World War II
|United States in World War II
​|World War II Overview

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A comprehensive exam covering all the topics of World War II.

TEACHING RESOURCES & LESSONS

D-Day (Normandy Invasion) during World War II - Reading, Questions and Key

Battle of France during World War II - Reading, Questions and Key

Adolf Hitler Biography, Rise to Power & Significance - PowerPoint & Cloze Notes

World War II Causes - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (4 Causes!)

Joseph Stalin - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (World War II and the Cold War)

Appeasement in World War II - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Atomic Bombing of Japan - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Communism - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Dictatorship - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Fascism - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Holodomor (Ukraine Famine) - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

Benito Mussolini - PowerPoint with Notes Copy

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