The Era of World War Two

Interactive lessons

1.	Head2Head Interview Interview Adolf Hitler! Interview the German dictator face to face! - An award winning activity!
2.	Decision-Making Game The Home Front in World War Two! How successfully would you have been as a wartime leader of Britain?
3.	Oral history project: World War Two From interviews by students, complete with tasks
4.	The World Between the Wars An interactive timeline, complete with worksheet.

Interactive quizzes

1.	Manic Miner Game World War Two
2.	Wordshoot Quiz The Home Front in World War Two
3.	Play Your Dates Right Quizzes World War Two, 1939-45
4.	Fling the Teacher Quizzes World War Two
5.	CannonBall Quiz The Home Front in World War Two

Worksheets

1.	Communism, Fascism and democracy		55kb
2.	The Atomic Bomb		60kb

History in the News for The Era of World War Two

1. London in the blitz: How crime flourished under cover of the blackout As the 70th anniversary of the start of the blitz approaches, Duncan Campbell reveals how black marketeers, thieves and looters took advantage of the misfortunes of war
2. Veterans jeer Blackpool woman who urinated on memorial A woman who urinated on a war memorial in Blackpool and performed a sex act nearby has been barracked by veterans.
3. The false teeth that 'helped win WWII' are auctioned
4. List of French who collaborated with Nazis to be published online Thousands of French citizens who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War will be unmasked when police reports from the era are finally made public and published online.
5. Nurse in famous WW2 Times Square photograph dies A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York's Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of the Second World War has died at the age of 91...
6. Winston Churchill 'agonised' over finest hour speech, papers reveal A new examination of his papers shows how he agonised over every famous phrase – even adding one at the last minute – and how his private secretary was secretly unimpressed by his efforts.
7. Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture A photograph of Winston Churchill giving his victory salute has been airbrushed to remove his signature cigar.
8. Why Bollywood's film about Hitler is profoundly misguided The idea that Hitler should be thanked for Indian independence proceeds from the view that, by weakening Britain, Germany forced it to abandon its empire.
9. Russia says probe into 1940 katyn massacre can't be reopened A top Russian official says there's no legal basis for reopening an investigation into the Katyn massacres, when thousands of Polish officers were killed by Soviet secret police.
10. Three dead as Second World War bomb explodes in Germany A Second World War bomb has exploded in central Germany, killing three people.
11. Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Hitler, Russian general says Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Hitler, Russian general says
12. Foreign troops join Russia's Victory Day parade
13. Historian claims to have finally identified wartime 'Man Who Never Was'
14. New Details on Roosevelt’s Response to Holocaust
15. PM Brown's Apology To WWII Hero Turing

History weblinks for The Era of World War Two

1. BBC - WW2 People's War - V-1s and V-2s Category
2. Spectacular Retrographs from World War II #historyteacher (RT @russeltarr)
3. Vintage Ministry of Food posters - Telegraph
4. Hiroshima: Quotes
5. D-Day: Simulation
6. The National Archives Learning Curve | World War II
7. Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons
8. EtherPad: Ideas for teaching WW2
9. The Era of World War Two