Tweeting the event so WW2
"Volunteers have started translating the RealTimeWWII feed into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Turkish, with talks under way for versions in French, Dutch and German. "
"To mark the 70th anniversary of the Munich agreement, the Telegraph unveiled a unique project to record Second World War memories. Here are some of the hundreds that have been sent in. "
World War II Interactive for iPad is the perfect app to give kids aged 10 and above (as well as parents!) a chance to learn and review the biggest conflict in history. Well designed and easy to use it offers a rich interactive experience that includes photos, videos, audios and text to help our kids learn about a major event in our history.
Using rich resources that encourage children's empathy skills can make all the difference in teaching about WWII. This collection has detailed lesson plans, sources of information, emotive images, audio interviews, film footage and display materials.
Discussions of propaganda are great ones to have. Here you can see quite an assortment of World War 2 propaganda. Right now in the UK they are observing remembrance day so a lot of resources are being shared that we can use on this topic. It would be interesting to have students look for modern day propaganda? How about looking at US elections - do we have propaganda there? Just discussing that topic would be interesting.
"While the Treasury grapples with the financial crisis of the 1930s, the Cabinet and the Foreign Office press for peace as the situation in Europe worsens.
Our collections document the rise of the dictators, the international diplomacy that failed and Britain's preparations for war."
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