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WWII Home Front Related Online Program Resources
At Home During World
War II
www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/ARHhome.htm
From Pomperaug High School in Southbury, CT, this site is an excellent
student example of WWII study projects. It covers wartime economies,
women on the home front, efforts to support the war, propaganda,
and personal perspectives of the war.
World War II Homefront
www.oneonta.edu/faculty/richards/145-webpage/145-16/
Prepared by a faculty member at SUNY-Oneonata this slide show summarizes
various aspects of the home front, including mobilizing for war,
defense production, women and the war, war boom communities, problems
of children on the home front, and the impact of war on American
life.
National D-Day
Museum
www.ddaymuseum.org/education/dday_education_factsheet_homefront.html
Comprehensive fact sheets, a glossary, a bibliography, links, and
a section for teachers are featured at this site, as well an area
specifically devoted to the home front. Extensive home front teaching
resources can be purchased through the museum.
What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women
Developed by Brown University and students at South Kingston High
School (and funded by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities),
this site explores the home front through oral history interviews,
a bibliography, a glossary, links, a timeline, and essays.
Rosie the Riveter
and Other Women World War II Heroes
www.u.arizona.edu/~kari/rosie.htm
Various scholarly essays cover Rosie the Riveter, women factory
workers, female doctors and nurses, and the use of women in wartime
propaganda.
World War II Poster Collection
www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/
Searchable database of three hundred
posters issued by U.S. federal agencies from the onset of the war
through 1945 are featured at this site. High resolution images are
available via CD-ROM, and information for poster collectors is provided.
Memories of the
1940s
http://www.youth.net/memories/welcome.html or http://timewitnesses.org
This international effort to preserve first person wartime memories
features an active panel of survivors who were young in the 1940s.
Organized in the U.K and translated into German, children can have
their WWII questions answered by home front participants from diverse
backgrounds and countries.
World War II: The
Homefront Artifact Museum
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/museum/index.htm
View artifacts from the home front and discover information about
Victory Gardens, civil defense, entertainment, fashion, toys, and
communication of the era.
Introduction to
the Homefront: Families Simulation
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/families/index.htm
This site follows the lives of five families from September 1943
to June 1944. Four activities are available: journal writing, experiencing
the fates of the families, developing an issue campaign, and making
a scrapbook.
Rosie the Riveter Trust
http://rosietheriveter.org/
This site is the online Rosie the Riveter Memorial which honors American
Women's Labor During WWII. It is the first national monument to celebrate
and interpret women's crucial contributions to the World War Two Home Front.
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