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 Each Western Civilization PicturePack Collection covers one of fifteen major periods in the history of Western Civilization.  Each Collection contains a thorough, in-depth series of visual lessons - each one a segment of history, told in beautiful large-size images and historical captions (articles). PicturePacks are inexpensive, and allow you to order just the historical content you need.  Created in html (web-based) format,  PicturePacks run in your own Windows web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator), so the PicturePack "look and feel" is friendly and familiar, and there is no installation and minimal user instruction. PicturePacks allow independent study, but they are also resources, designed to allow you to use the rich, varied content to create presentations, handouts, student reports, and much more.  Simple, clear instructions are included. PicturePack Collections are delivered on CD.

CONTENTS Collection N: World War II, 1939 - 1945   

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    Western Civilization PicturePacks
     A Early Civilizations to 500 B.C.
     B Greek, Hellenistic 200-31 B.C.
     C Rome, Christianity 31 B.C.-71 A.D.
     D Foundations of Europe, 700-1200
     E The Middle Ages 1200-1500
     F Italian Renaissance, 1300-1550
     G The Reformation, 1517-1600
     H Nation States 1600-1715
     I Enlightenment, French Revolution
     J Revolutions, 1815 - 1850
     K Nationalism, Militarism 1850-1914
     L WWI, Russian Revolution
     M Between the Wars, 1920 - 1939
     N WWII, 1939 - 1945
     O Global Civilization 1945-Present
     

 

     

 


 

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  Western Civilization PicturePack

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World War II, 1939 - 1945
  

All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
   

   

   

PicturePack WCN01: World War II BeginsHitler calls for war against Poland ● German workers assemble airplanes ● A German division moving Into Poland ● A German PzKpfw IV medium tank going to the front ● German Junkers Ju. 87 "Stuka" in flight ● A French World War II poster ● German invaders in Norway, April 1940 ● German troops on the Norwegian coast ● A German Junkers Ju. 52 trimotor airplane ● A Belgian mother and children in the ruins ● Houses in Luxembourg destroyed, May 10, 1940 ● A German assault gun in action ● British troops retreat at Dunkirk, May 1940 ● British troops captured at Dunkirk, 1940 ● Harold Lord Alexander (1891-1969) ● French surrender to Germany, June 22, 1940 ● Hitler elated over the capitulation of France ● The Wehrmacht in Paris, June 1940 ● Hitler after defeating France in 1940 ● Hitler and Goering in Berlin, 1940 ● Paul Reynaud, wartime premier of France ● Marshal Henri-Philippe Pétain (1856-1951) ● Cartoon, Vichy regime above all parties ● Pierre Laval (1883-1945), French politician ● Hitler meets Pétain, with Ribbentrop on right ● Admiral Jean Darlan arrives to meet Hitler ● Anti-Semitic French cartoon during occupation ● Map: Hitler's empire, 1942 ● Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) ● Cartoon re: de Gaulle and Darlan’s assassination ● Infantryman honored by de Gaulle in 1942 ● French general Henri Giraud, 1943 ● A French Resistance poster ● Signing of the Tripartite Pact, September 1940 ● Diplomats in Tokyo celebrate Tripartite Pact 
 

PicturePack WCN02: WWII: Air Bombardment of England and GermanyHitler and Franco meet, October 23, 1940 ● John Bull's War Aim ● A German Messerschmitt Me. 109 fighter airplane ● A Heinkel He. 111 medium bomber ● A German aircrew en route to bomb London ● The German Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighter airplane ● "Never was so much owed by so many to so few." ● London underground used as air raid shelter ● Air raid shelter pass used during the Blitz ● British troops arrive at a London station ● Observer scans London skies for German aircraft ● "Let us go forward together." ● Fireman helps homeless people over rubble ● How to Get Help after Air Raid Damage ● Family in the wreckage of their Liverpool home ● A Plymouth milkman picks his way through rubble ● Lend-Lease: bacon from U.S. in England ● British woman carpenter at a shop in England ● Woman welder in an English factory in 1943 ● A British Short Stirling 4-engine bomber, 1942 ● The city of Nuremberg, Germany, in ruins ● German woman searches through bombed house ● Family lives in the only remaining room  
 

PicturePack WCN03: WWII: The Sea War & Eastern FrontThe sinking of the Graf Spee, 1939 ● Atlantic convoy seen from a destroyer’s bridge ● The German World War II code machine Enigma ● A British destroyer laying a smoke screen ● A Royal Navy corvette, the H.M.S. Hibiscus ● A U-boat tanker or "milch cow." ● Aboard the Suffolk in the Denmark Strait ● Biplanes prepare to take off vs. Bismarck ● A typical British cruiser, the H.M.S. Aurora ● A British submarine arrives home ● A German panzer unit moves into Salonika, 1941 ● Oil tanks burning on the Salonika waterfront ● German soldiers with a loaded burro in Crete ● Fort St. Elmo in Valletta on Malta ● German bombs bursting on Valletta, Malta. ● Maltese people in shelter during German attack ● A British destroyer defending a Malta convoy ● A freighter in a Malta convoy under air attack ● British troops landing in Malta, February 1942 ● H.M.S. Ark Royal sinking   
 

PicturePack WCN04: The WWII Battle for RussiaVyacheslav M. Molotov (1890-1986) ● The German invasion of Russia, 1941 ● German troops advancing on the eastern front. ● An armored half-track of a German grenadier unit ● General Guderian, German panzer commander ● A German Fieseler "Storch" [Stork] light plane ● German He. 111 airplane bombing Russia ● Russian soldiers taken prisoner by Germans ● Soviet Marshal Timoshenko (1895-1970) ● Red Army men defend Taganrog-Orel railway ● Military car mired in Russian mud ● Winter on the Russian front ● Women making felt boots for the Russian Army ● Red Army Ski Troops Move To Front ● German Retreat Begins in Rostov-on-Don ● German prisoners taken by Russians ● Red Army soldiers attacking a German outpost ● Stalingrad, October 1942 ● German soldiers during the assault on Stalingrad ● Ruins in Stalingrad, 1942 ● Women digging an anti-tank ditch ● A burning Leningrad hospital, 1942 ● A German rocket battery before Leningrad ● Russian nurses receive instructions ● Russian factory workers buying war bonds ● A poster, "Workers'-Peasants' Regime." ● A poster, "Death to the Fascist Serpent!" ● A Soviet World War II poster ● Russian peasants on a collective farm, 1942 ● A woman lathe operator in a Russian factory ● Soviet girls in the guerrilla forces    
 

PicturePack WCN05: Pearl Harbor; The U.S. Enters the War Pearl Harbor during Japanese attack ● A burning battleship at Pearl Harbor ● Roosevelt asking Congress to declare war on Japan ● The surrender of the Philippine Islands, May 1942 ● The Bataan Death March ● Coast Guard cutter depth-charging a U-boat ● U.S. bomb hits German submarine ● RAF airfield turned over to the USAAF ● B-24 "Liberator" bombers ● A wrecked American B-24 "Liberator" heavy bomber ● A stacked echelon of P-51 "Mustang" fighters ● B-17s attack Berlin, February 1945 ● B-17 "Flying Fortress" bombers on a mission ● The Moscow Conference, 1942   
  

PicturePack WCN06: World War II in Africa ● The Cairo Conference, November 1943 ● Map of the North African war area ● British troops advance on Bardia, Libya ● The Union Jack is hoisted in Benghazi ● British troops in Palmyra, Syria ● British troops in the Roman Forum at Palmyra ● South African infantry in the battle of Tobruk ● Axis signs in Tobruk, 1942 ● General Erwin Rommel in North Africa ● A British tank passes a burning German tank ● Retreating British troops in the desert ● Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery ● A column of Axis prisoners in the desert, 1942 ● French ships shell U.S. cruiser off Casablanca ● Free French soldiers in North Africa ● The British 8th Army moves into Tunisia ● U.S. artillerymen vs. Germans at Kasserine Pass ● The Casablanca Conference, 1943   
  

PicturePack WCN07: The Allies Take Italy and FranceFree French troops parade in Tunis, May 1943 ● The Casablanca Conference, 1943 ● German grenadiers in Italy south of Rome ● German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ● U.S. General Mark Wayne Clark (1896-1984) ● American troops in Rome, October 1945 ● U.S. Fifth Army crosses Po River in Italy ● Pope Pius XII, who ruled from 1939 to 1958 ● A German fortress on the "Atlantic Wall." ● Hitler with Keitel, Dönitz, Himmler, and Milch ● Albert Speer In a captured U.S. Sherman tank ● Field Marshal von Runstedt (1875-1953) ● Field Marshal Erwin Rommel inspecting troops ● Eisenhower before the D-Day invasion of Normandy ● The D-Day invasion across the English Channel ● Normandy beach after landing on June 6, 1944 ● Allies begin to move inland after D-Day landings ● U.S. infantrymen approach Fontainebleau, France ● A map of the Allied march to Berlin ● After the assassination attempt against Hitler ● Count von Wartenburg led to trial, 1944 ● 17-year-old member of French Resistance ● Sniper fire interrupts Paris victory parade ● Members of the French underground, August 1944 ● French women believed to be collaborators  
 

PicturePack WCN08: German Surrender; WWII EndsA German V-1 pilotless plane ● A captured V-1 launch site in France ● A V-2 rocket in flight soon after launching ● The Peenemünde scientific team ● Marshal Tito in Yugoslavian headquarters, 1944 ● 21-year-old in the Yugoslav People's Army ● "Thus it will be with the Fascist beast!" ● The Yalta Conference, February 1945 ● Molotov and Stalin confer at Yalta, February 1945 ● Russian and U.S. soldiers meet at Elbe river ● The bombed-out ruins of Darmstadt, Germany ● A captured 13-year old Hitler Youth fighter ● Leipzig mayor and family who committed suicide ● Bormann, head of Nazi Party affairs after Hess ● General Alfred Jodl en route to sign surrender ● Germany surrenders, May 7, 1945 ● British royal family and Churchill ● Churchill, Eisenhower at London's Guild Hall ● A map of Europe after World War II ● A sign asking for a united Berlin   
 

PicturePack WCN09: The HolocaustGerman cartoon, "A Million Dead for Jewry." ● A Jewish-owned store after a Nazi bombing ● Jewish man forced to sweep a street in 1939 ● A poster for The Eternal Jew exhibition, 1937 ● A poster for the 1940 German film Jew Süss ● One of 20,000 children who fled Vienna, 1938 ● British Jews with petition to open Palestine ● Hyde Park protest against German policies ● Londoners protest Nazi treatment of the Jews ● Orthodox Polish Jew has his beard shaved off ● Warsaw Jews herded into ghetto ● Warsaw defenders arrested by the Germans, 1943 ● Buildings on fire in the Warsaw ghetto, 1943 ● Warsaw citizens' papers reviewed during revolt ● U.S. soldier stands over bodies of two SS guards ● Prisoners in their bunks at Dachau ● Ovens in a German concentration camp ● At Terezin, a Polish man about to be murdered ● Women's ward at Belsen concentration camp ● Irma Grese, in charge of death cells at Belsen ● One of the first freed from a concentration camp ● Bodies of Nazi concentration camp victims, 1945 ● German soldiers forced to uncover mass grave ● Germans are forced to view dead bodies ● Civilians of Nuremberg ordered to carry bodies   
 

PicturePack WCN10: World War II in Asia and the Pacific; Nuremberg TrialsMap of the Japanese Empire, 1942 and 1945 ● Flying Tigers of the Chinese Air Force ● H.M.S. Prince of Wales in 1941 ● The last days of Singapore, February 1942 ● Indian Sikh gunners in Singapore ● Indian troops in Cyrenaica, North Africa ● Mme. Chiang, Gandhi, Chiang, Nehru, April 1942 ● Australians in action against the Japanese, 1943 ● Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979) ● Gandhi after his release from internment in 1944 ● Japanese move to capture Burma, March 1942 ● British & Indian troops on Imphal-Kohima Road ● Gurkha soldiers in at recapture of Prome, Burma ● British troops prepare to shell Japanese ● Ancient & modern grading on the Stilwell Road ● Generals Joseph Stilwell and Lewis Pick confer ● First convoy to cross Stilwell Road enters China ● Stalin, Truman, Churchill at Potsdam Conference ● Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ● The original atomic pile ● Enrico Fermi at the controls ● Los Alamos National Laboratory, aerial view ● The first atomic explosion, July 16, 1945 ● Bomb damage in Tokyo ● Hiroshima after the atomic explosion ● Japanese surrender on U.S.S. Missouri ● Japanese Emperor Hirohito ● Top Nazi leaders on trial at Nuremberg ● Goering at the Nuremberg war crimes trial ● Hess in his cell at Nuremberg, November 1945 ● General Tojo Hideki at the war crimes trial   
 


 

 

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