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Social Studies: World War II

Veterans' Affairs Canada: Teacher Resources

WW II Battles

World War II by Simon Adams; Andy Crawford (Photographer); Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
World War II Day by Day by Antony Shaw
The Battle of Britain by by Richard Bickers

Women in World War II

The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Canadian Encyclopedia

Historica Canada

Non-Fiction Reads about WWII

The Children Who Fought for Hitler by Sue Elliott
I am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die by Christine Arnothy
The Secret Lives of Codebreakers by Sinclair McKay
Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
An Unbroken Chain by Henry Oertelt; Stephanie Oertelt Samuels

Canadian Contribution

Canada's Role in WW II

Juno by Ted Barris; John Keegan (Foreword by)
The Valour and the Horro by Weisbord, M. and Merilyn Simonds Mohr
D-Day! The Canadians and the Normandy Landings June 1944 by by Reg. H. Roy

The Canadian Military History Legion Magazine

Primary Sources Online: Canada in WW II

Veterans Affairs Canada - Rememberance

War Brides - Canadian Immigration

Vimy Ridge: Primary Sources

Featured Websites

Canada at War - World War II

Second World War (1939-1945) - Veteran's Affairs

Canadian War Museum - Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War

BBC site - World War II links

World War II - History Learning Site UK

Canadian Wartime Propaganda - Second World War - Canadian War Museum

Selling WW II

CBC Love, Hate & Propaganda
Six part documentary series about the role propaganda played during World War Two. With newsreels, posters, speeches, rallies, songs and radio, entire populations were convinced to go to war.

World War II in Cartoons by Mark Bryant

Prisoner of War Camps in Canada

Featured Websites EN FRANCAIS

https://www.museedelaguerre.ca/premiereguerremondiale/

http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/pub/boo-bro/abo-aut/chapter-chapitre-05-fra.asp

http://canada1914-1945.ca/fr/ressources/

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/fra/commemoration

Honouring Indigenous Contributions in War Times

The Rise of Nazism

Mein Kampf by by Adolf Hitler
Tomi by Tomi Ungerer

The Holocaust

The Holocaust by James R. Norton
Smoke and Ashes by Barbara Rogasky
Publication Date: 988-03-01

Nuclear Attacks

Hiroshima No Pika by Toshi Maruki (Illustrator)

Hiroshima Peach Museum

World War II in Graphic Novels

Canada at War by Michael Wyatt (Illustrator); Paul Keery
Defiance by Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis (Illustrator)
My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Resistance by Carla Jablonski; Leland Purvis (Illustrator)
A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman