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Afghanistan War
World History: Major Events

General Information

    A collection of all timelines.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/timelinearchive.html

    The History Net powers this site that gives the history of all the wars and the military campaigns, also a history of the military.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/

    Cost of major U.S. wars.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22926.pdf


American Revolution

    On this site you can see the major events leading up to and over the course of the American Revolutionary War.
http://www.multied.com/revolt/
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/

    From PBS and Wells Fargo comes this site on:  Liberty, the American Revolution.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/

    Virtual marching tour of the American Revolution.
http://www.ushistory.org/march/

    Women soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets.html

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Civil War

    Photographs of the Civil War from the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwphtml/cwpabt.html

    The Civil War Homepage. With many links to Civil War history and people.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html
http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

    Poetry and music of the Civil War.
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/union/songs/index.html
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/music.htm

    Daily newspaper of the Civil War.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/

    Women of the Civil War.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/civil-war-women.html
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women/cwdocs.html

    Timeline of the Civil War.
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/
http://www.civilwar.com/
http://americancivilwar.com/

    Links to other Civil War sites.
http://www.civilwar.com/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cwfrm.htm
http://homepages.dsu.edu/jankej/civilwar/civilwar.htm

    Map collection of the Civil War from the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
http://americancivilwar.com/civil.html

    Causes of the Civil War.
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarmenu/a/cause_civil_war.htm

    Welcome to the Civil War Reenactors Home Page.
http://www.cwreenactors.com/

    Civil War biographies page.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/biograph.htm

    Recreate the foods of the Civil War.
http://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/civil_war_cooking.html

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World War I

    World War I (the Great War) as seen through timelines, maps, interviews and more links on PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

    "Photos of the Great War" is an imagebase dedicated to the study of the First World War.
http://www.gwpda.org/photos/    

    Causes of World War I.
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/worldwari/tp/causes-of-world-war-1.htm

    Trenches on the Web Reference Library has many links related to World War I. It has the who, what, where, when and maps of the Great War.
http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm

    This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World
War I Military History List.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/

    The First World War as presented by Spartacus Schoolnet.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW.htm

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World War II

    Timelines and history of  World War II  with photos, text, and many links.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
http://www.skalman.nu/worldwar2/
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2691/paclink.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm

    From  the BBC, this World War II site.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/

   From the Avalon Project at Yale Law School come these World War II documents.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp

    From ThinkQuest is World War II : the Homefront.
http://library.thinkquest.org/15511/timeline/index.htm

    Maps of World War II.
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-maps/world-war-ii-map.html
http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/
http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/lessons/ushistory/ww2/europeantheater.htm

    Codes and ciphers of the Second World War.
http://www.otr.com/ciphers.shtml
http://www.vectorsite.net/ttcode.html

    Planes and  pilots of World War II.
http://www.acepilots.com/
http://home.att.net/~C.C.Jordan/
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/usplanes/
http://www.multied.com/aviation/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls/

    Navajo code talkers from the U.S. Navy.
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm

    World War II Armed Forces orders of battle and organizations.
http://www.freeport-tech.com/WWII/

    Tanks of World War II.
http://www.tanksinworldwar2.com/

    Women in World War II.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets5.html
http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/warwwii/
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/WomenInWWII.html

    Fascism in Italy.
http://www.thecorner.org/hist/total/f-italy.htm

    World War II casualties.
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/

    Military leaders of World War II.
http://library.thinkquest.org/17573/leaders.htm

    Ships and submarines of World War II.
http://www.acepilots.com/ships/main.html
http://www.educypedia.be/education/worldwarIInavy.htm
http://uboat.net/
http://www.friesian.com/destroy.htm
http://www.2worldwar2.com/submarines.htm

    Pearl Harbor.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl.htm
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl2.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

    Battle at Midway.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/midway.htm
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/midway.htm

    Atomic bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html
http://www.dannen.com/nagasaki_links.html
http://www.dannen.com/hiroshima_links.html

    Concentration and internment  camps.
http://www.remember.org/camps/
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm
http://www.concentrationcampguide.com/
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/timeline.html

    The Holocaust.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/tp/holocaust.htm
http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/nymas601holucaust.htm
http://www.openhere.com/science/history/20th-century/holocaust-the/

    Resistance movements.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Resistance_during_World_War_II
http://www.hw.com/academics/ushistory/independent/
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/resistance_movements.htm
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=275#04    

    Adolf Hitler.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm
http://www.biography.com/articles/Adolf-Hitler-9340144#
http://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hitler-Adolf.html
http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/timebase/simpletl.htm

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Cold War

    History of the Cold War.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/suez.htm
http://www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/index.shtml
http://history.howstuffworks.com/cold-war/general-cold-war-history.htm

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Korea

    Maps of the Korean War.
http://www.history.army.mil/BOOKS/MAPS.HTM
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/maps/koreatxt.html

    Korean War web resources.
http://history.searchbeat.com/koreanwar.htm

    Korea: voices from both sides of the war.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=10008

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Vietnam

   Maps of the Vietnam War.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/vietnam/vietnamwar.htm

    From PBS comes these sites explaining the battlefield tactics used by the government, and the Vietnam War in general.
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/

    The Vietnam War Internet Project is an educational organization dedicated to providing information and
documents about the various Indochina Wars and to the collection and electronic publication on the web
of oral histories and memoirs of both those who served in and those who opposed those conflicts. 
http://www.vwip.org/vwiphome.html

    The History Place presents this site on the history of the Vietnam War.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index.html

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Cuban Missile Crisis

    History of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11046/days/index.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq90-1.htm
http://www.cubanmissilecrisis.org/

    Listening to audio files of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

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Gulf War

    Maps of the Gulf War.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/maps/

    The Gulf War, an in-depth examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf Crisis as presented by PBS.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/index.html

   This is a site created by a student to honor those who participated in Operation Desert-Storm.
http://www.desert-storm.com/index.html

    Gulf War illnesses.
http://www.gulflink.osd.mil/
http://www.va.gov/gulfwar/

    Report to Congress on the Conduct of the Persian Gulf War.
http://es.rice.edu/projects/Poli378/Gulf/

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Iraq War

    Iraq War facts, results and statistics.
http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs?location_type=999&state=8&program=588&tradeoff_item_item=999

    Timeline of Iraq War.
http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/od/newsiss3/a/iraqwartimeline.htm

    Maps of Iraq.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/maps.htm
http://www.mideastweb.org/miraqd.htm
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/maps/map_country_iraq.html

    Causes of Iraq war.
http://terrorism.about.com/od/wariniraq/a/IraqWaronTerror.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/870845/Iraq-War

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Afghanistan War

    Different views on the War on Terrorism: Afghanistan and the Taliban.
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/govdoc/afghanistan.cfm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/asia/afghanistan/
http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore/browse/documents-in-the-news+terrorism-and-september-11th-attack/1614/search/

    War Report: archives of documents and articles on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.comw.org/warreport/

    U.S. War on Terrorism Timeline.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/20018/
http://www.mapreport.com/countries/u.s._war_on_terrorism.html
http://terrorism.about.com/od/globalwaronterror/tp/Pakistan---Terror-War-Timeline.htm

    Maps of Afghanistan.
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/af.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/maps.htm

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World History: Major Events

    Major historical events in the history of the world.
http://www.historycentral.com/dates/
http://www.google.com/search?q=world+history+battles&hl=en&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=GKD5Sor_OoioMMDyldsK&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11&ved=0CBwQ5wIwCg
http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/timeline.cfm
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
http://www.lukemastin.com/history/

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November 2009