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World War II / Holocaust / Hiroshima: Database Resources

Possible Topics / Search Terms

You may want to use some of the following terms when you are searching these resources:

Adolph Hitler                                                      Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

Auschwitz-Birkenau                                           Bombing of Pearl Harbor  

Bergen-Belsen                                                   Executive Order 9066

D-Day - Invasion of Normanday                        Hiroshima                      

Final Solution                                                    J. Robert Oppenheimer      

Kristallnacht - Night of the broken glass           Japanese American

Miep Gies                                                                Internment Camps

Nazi Party                                                         Manhattan Project

Non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust                Nagasaki

Nuremberg Trials                                              Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Oskar Schindler

EBSCO -- Student Research Center

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Sweet Search

Sweet Search is a great alternative to Google. It will search for sites that are appropriate for assignments and results will be annotated. This means that there will be notes telling a little bit about the Website; so you will know something about the site to help you decide if it will be useful.

World Book Online

Encyclopedia Britanica

ABC-CLIO

Click on TOPICS at the top right. Then look for "A Nation Faces Conflict, 1939 - 1960". The entries for World War II will be right under this heading.

History Reference Center

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