| | WWII
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
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| | WWII - BBC History of WWII
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/
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| | WWII Memorial Washington DC
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/default.asp?page=home.asp
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| | Anne Frank Museum
Take a tour of the house in which she and her family hid. Includes many
pictures.
http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2
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| | The Museum of Tolerance
http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/pp.asp?c=arLPK7PILqF&b=249627
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| | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington DC
Includes history, pictures, and online exhibits
http://www.ushmm.org/
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| | Children and the Holocaust
A webquest with MANY links about the Holocaust
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webchildrensh.html
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| | Holocaust Map of Concentration Camps and Death Camps
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blmap.htm
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| | Holocaust Glossary of Terms
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa081997.htm
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| | Pictures of the Holocaust
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blpictures.htm
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| | Into the Arms of Strangers
The Story of the Kindertransport
http://www2.warnerbros.com/intothearmsofstrangers/
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| | Holocaust Survivors
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
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| | The Atomic Bomb
Turman's Decision
http://www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/msrhome.htm
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| | Historic Speeches
http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/
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| | Great Speeches Collection
The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/previous.htm
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| | Interactive map of Europe (Current)
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/europe_map.htm
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| | Sears Roebuck Houses
You can look at all the different house plans from 1908-1940!
Many were built right here in Downers Grove!
To see the actual houses in Downers Grove, look at the link farther down on
this page.
http://www.arts-crafts.com/archive/sears.shtml
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| | WWI - Choose a day in the timeline and learn what happened on that
particular
day.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/onthisday/1915_05_08.htm
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| | Roaring Twenties Music
http://www.biograph.com/
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| | WWI
Article about life in the trenches
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm
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| | Films of 1920s
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
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| | Ellis Island: Search for relatives!
Find the immigration procedure!
Very informative site!
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp
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| | Picture History of Immigration
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/c/230/p/10/mcms.html
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| | Ellis Island History
http://www.ellisisland.com/indexHistory.html
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| | Virtual Tour of an Immigrant coming to Ellis Island
History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/ellisisland/index2.html
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| | National Park Service - Ellis Island
http://www.nps.gov/elis/
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| | Scholastic site for Immigration
Some of this is the same as our other sites within our links
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/
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| | American Immigrant Wall of Honor
Is your ancestor on it?
http://www.wallofhonor.com/
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| | Ellis Island Immigrant Cookbook
http://www.ellisislandcookbook.com/
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| | WWII
Find the U-505 Submarine
Online Game
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/onlineactivities/find/index.html
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| | WWII
Command the U-505 Submarine
Online Game
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/onlineactivities/command/index.html
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| | Angel Island: "The Ellis Island of the West"
http://www.angelisland.org/
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| | Child Labor: This explores the conditions under which so many children
worked in the early 1900s. Pictures included.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
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| | Propaganda from WWI era
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-43%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=WWI+propaganda
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| | British Broadcasting - World War One
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/
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| | WWI - History Central
http://www.historycentral.com/ww1/index.html
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| | WWI - History Channel
A good overview of causes, political, and military operations.
http://www.historychannel.com/thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=226139
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| | WWI - Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/
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| | Timeline of Media History - Good for Radio Shows!
http://www.mediahistory.umn.edu/time/1920s.html
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| | WWI - Document Archive
Good site for soldier accounts of experiences. Good pictures!
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
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| | UpFront Magazine - New York Times Teen Magazine
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/
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| | Old Time Radio Shows
Mystery, Comedy, Music, Drama, Variety, Sci-Fi, & Westerns
http://www.radiolovers.com/
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| | More Old Time Radio Shows
The Shadow, Fibber McGee and Molly, Edward R. Murrow news broadcasts, Buck
Rogers, Flash Gordon, War of the Worlds...and more!
http://www.otr.com/index.shtml
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| | Sears Home Tour of Downers Grove! Includes maps, addresses and pictures of
the known Sears houses in Downers Grove.
http://visitor.downers.us/searshomes/index.htm
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| | WWI Map - 1917
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www3.eou.edu/hist06/images/KISH_26_593.gif&imgrefurl=http://www3.eou.edu/hist06/WWIoverview.html&h=176&w=208&sz=19&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=r-mkMsNbAJnLGM:&tbnh=89&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWWI%2Bmap%26svnum%3D10
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| | Classic Advertisements from 1900s
http://www.adclassix.com/
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