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The site features picture essays, timelines, videos, and interactive guides to significant events in European and World history. Made From History is divided into four sections; WWI, WWII, Civil Rights, and Referenced Blog

Great simple timeline of events for WWII from the BBC.  

Animated WWII via map in 7 minutes

Interactive/animated maps WWII

Great lesson for WWII in US History class - set the context of Munich appeasement and fear of world war, then tell the story of the broadcast and the panic. Students job? - find out if reports of the panic were valid - how would you check? End with the media fight between radio and newspapers. What are implications for the internet? Related material can also be found at the National Archives collection of letters written to the FCC after the broadcast (https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/fall/war-of-worlds.html). In this National Archive articles it states that "Of the 1,770 people who wrote to the main CBS station about the broadcast, 1,086 were complimentary. In addition, 91 percent of the letters received by the Mercury Theatre staff were positive. And roughly 40 percent of the letters sent to the FCC were supportive of the broadcast."

Perfect for Halloween - nothing is scarier than teaching something and then founding out later that you really weren't as accurate as you thought you were.

A collection of nearly 3000 high-resolution World War II propaganda posters maintained by an American writer living in Berlin. Wonder what his German mates think?

Ok, so this isn't a terribly serious nor detailed account of WWII. But it may help some of those students on the edge of oblivion if you know what I mean. :D

Here is a great site published by the UK Telegraph. It is full of personal accounts during WWII. I hope you find it enlightening and helpful.

"THE WAR IN EUROPE, NORTH AFRICA, & ON THE EASTERN FRONT"

An interesting collection of photographs, though not all are of the Red Army in WWII.

TONS of links to seemingly all things WWII, Nazi, and Holocaust.

Put together by the HTAA. Great for Australian history teachers.

"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the Pacific War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."