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Siteseen: American Historama: Causes of Ww2 for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on the causes of WW2 provides detailed facts and summary of events that started the war including the attack on Pearl Harbor and the rise of dictators in Germany and Italy.
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Yale University

Avalon Project: Radio Address by Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the House of Commons documents in which Prime Minister Chamberlain addresses the British people on the state of war with Germany.
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History Place: Heinrich Himmler Chief of German Police

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place describes Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the German police under the command of Hitler. He helped carry out what the Nazi's referred to as the "Final Solution."
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Arthur Neville Chamberlain

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography of former prime minister of Britain Neville Chamberlain, gives an overview of his life before becoming prime minister and his policy of appeasement with Adolf Hitler in 1939.
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: The Night of the Long Knives

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a lengthy discussion with quotes about the take over of the Sturmabteilung (SA) by the Shutzstaffel (SS) in 1934 and the leader of the SA, Rohm, is assassinated.
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Ben Austin's Sociology Corner: Chronology of the Holocaust: 1930 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Factual chronology of the Holocaust from 1930-1945. Detailed accounts beginning with the National Socialist Party to the liberation of concentration camps.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Fascism, Nazism and Communism

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the definition of Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and Militarism together with comparisons and examples of the regimes and the dictators who assumed absolute power leading up to WW2.
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Photo of Nazi Rule in Sudetenland

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides an archived photo of Czech woman dutifully saluting the Nazis during the occupation of the Sudetenland. Includes short description.
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The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Article depicting the Nazi Holocaust from the beginning in 1938 with a simple boycott to the end in 1945 with the liberation of the death camps.

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