Oswiecim: The Polish town near the Auschwitz death
camp
Poland Invaded: Historical footage - (click on
"surrendered" in the third paragraph, scroll down 80%, click on the film, see
"Germany Invades Poland" at top left of page
Poles: Feared gas attacks
Polish Holocaust: Millions of non-Jewish Poles were
killed by the Nazis
Potsdam Conference: End-of-war negotiations by "Big
Three"
Propaganda Posters: The U.S. government hired some of
the best artists of the day to create largely-forgotten propaganda
posters
Rationing: A way of life during WWII
Rations, Food: Restrictions in the UK and the
US
Rations, Gas/Petrol: Restrictions in the UK and the
US
Rations, Teaching Children: American school children
learn about rationing
Rations, Tires: Rubber shortages mandated tire
rationing - (see third paragraph from bottom)
Rations, World-wide Examples: WWII ration books issued
in many countries
Red
Army, Liberation: Soviet troops liberate German-held territory
Roosevelt, Franklin D., death of: FDR died,
unexpectedly, 12 April 1945
Roosevelt, President Franklin: Unfinished portrait -
(click on "president would die," fourth paragraph)
Salvage Drives: Children helped to minimize shortages
with salvage drives
Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff:
Soviet Union Losses: More than 20 million people
died
Stalingrad, Attack/Siege: Deadliest battle of Word War
II
Stroop Report: Total Destruction of the Warsaw
Ghetto
Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia): Nazis take over
Sudetenland (through the Munich Agreement) on 1 October 1938
Tommy Guns: Modified for WWII use - (see last
paragraph)
Truman, Harry S. - On learning he had just become
president of the U.S.A.
Truman, President Harry: Potsdam Conference,
preparation and travel
Truman, President Harry: Stalin meeting, July
1945
U-Boats: Germany's weapon at sea
U.S. Government Posters: "Keep Quiet!"
Utah and Omaha Beaches: American soldiers land at Normandy on
D-Day
von Hindenburg, Paul: Germany's president names Hitler
Chancellor
Warsaw Bombed: Warsaw Radio aired Rachmaninov's Piano
Concerto in C Minor
Warsaw Destroyed: Hitler ordered the destruction of
Warsaw
Warsaw Ghetto: Effective 12 October 1940, new "living
arrangements" for Jews
Warsaw-Ghetto Residents: "Evacuated" to Treblinka
concentration camp
Warsaw-Ghetto Revolt: Jewish resistance against
Nazis
"Waste nothing!" - Efforts to curb shortages and ease
the burdens of WWII
Wolf's Lair: Scene of attempted assassination of Hitler
(July 20, 1944) - referred to as "Operation Valkyrie"
Women at War: American women part of war effort
Yalta Conference: Marks start of "Cold War"
