World War II

Boxes for Katje

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After World War II, there is little left in Katje’s town of Olst in Holland.

Author:

Candace Fleming

Grade Level:

Elementary

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00:19

Turning to diplomacy and military operations, the reasons for Allied success are assessed. The holocaust, use of atomic bombs, and how the war transformed the world and the place of the United States in it are examined.

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Middle

High

Length:

00:30

Road to War (2005)

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The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the U.S. into the most devastating war of the 20th century. America's diplomatic road to war and the wartime mobilization, including the internment of Japanese Americans is analyzed.

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Middle

High

Length:

00:30

The War: 1941-1945 (2006)

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THE WAR, a seven-part documentary series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of the Second World War from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

15:00

The War of the World: A New History of the 20th Century (2007)

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World War II, we have been told all our lives, was our greatest triumph, the moment when the forces of light—the Western democracies and the U.S.S.R.—prevailed over the forces of darkness—the Nazis and the other Axis powers. It was a conflict that began in Europe in September 1939 and ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945. Or did it?

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

03:00

The War of the World: A New History of the 20th Century

The Perilous Fight, America's World War II in Color (2003)

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Combines original color footage with compelling passages from diaries and letters from soldiers, leaders, and the homefront during World War II. Topics cover all aspects of the war including battles, internment of Japanese Americans, African-American soldiers, women in the military and on the homefront, war in the Pacific, an the concentration camps.

Grade Level:

High

Length:

03:40

The Perilous Fight, America's World War II in Color

Into the Arms of Strangers (2000)

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Academy Award-winning documentary uses archival footage and interviews to tell the story of the rescue operation that transported ten-thousand Jewish children from Nazi Germany and certain death, to Great Britain just prior to World War II.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:57

World War II

Boxes for Katje

World at War (2005)

Road to War (2005)

The War: 1941-1945 (2006)

The War of the World: A New History of the 20th Century (2007)

The Perilous Fight, America's World War II in Color (2003)

Into the Arms of Strangers (2000)

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