[DPS] Lest We Forget - Anzac Day - 25th April Thanks to Carolyn for compiling the list and to my Dad whose death is remembered today! World War II Main sites Absolute library http://www.absoluteauthority.com/WW_II BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo History http://www.historylink101.com/1/world_war_II/world_war_II.htm Maps http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/WWIIPages/WWIIEurope/WWIIEToC.htm and http://www.onwar.com/maps/wwii/index.htm Timeline http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html World at war http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm WWII http://ww2.klup.info/ WWII archives http://www.ww2archives.net WWII pages http://www.stokesey.demon.co.uk/wwii Other sites Aircraft training videos http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com Avalon project http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm Battle of Britain http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html Battlefield relics http://www.lerenfort.fsnet.co.uk Bismark http://www.kbismarck.com Chronology http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/ww2hist/ Documents http://www.cegesoma.be Fact book http://www.skalman.nu/worldwar2 Fighter planes - how they worked http://www.howstuffworks.com/wwii-plane.htm German armed forces http://www.feldgrau.com German aviation http://www.ww2.dk German Luftwaffe experimental aircraft projects http://www.luft46.com Normandy campaign (German forces) http://w1.183.telia.com/~u18313395/normandy/ Pacific wreck database http://www.pacificwrecks.com U-boat war http://uboat.net/ Vehicles and equipment http://www.wwiitechpubs.com WWII battles http://members.aol.com/dave798/index.html WWII UK posters http://www.ww2poster.co.uk Other sites http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/oxford/285/wwii.htm Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic bomb articles http://www.vce.com/atomcentral.html Drafts of Truman's decision http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/lastact.html Hiroshima peace memorial http://www.csi.ad.jp/hiroshima-live/index.html US official documents http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html Text of the bombing order http://www.dannen.com/decision/handy.html Was it necessary? http://www.doug-long.com More sites http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2125.html and http://www2.gol.com/users/friedman/alinks.html Other conflicts Abyssinian War Background http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/ethiopia.html Italy's invasion http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/eat/ethiopia/fitalyethiopia1935.htm Selassie's appeal to the UN http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/selassie.htm Afghanistan Civil war maps http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/afghan.civil.html Civil war military strength http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/index.html Human rights group view http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/vif2_project/index.htm One view on US action http://www.comw.org/pda/0201strangevic.html National security archive 1973-90 http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/afghanistan/afghanistan.html Northern Alliance http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1552994.stm Russian view http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/vif2_project/index.htm Sites on war 79-89 http://www.afghanwar.spb.ru/index_e.html Time article on the Taliban http://www.time.com/time/international/1996/961007/afghanistan.html Arab-Israeli wars Israeli Government's site http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/home.asp Israeli view on the war of independence http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/warindep.html Lebanon war http://www.adl.org/ISRAEL/Record/lebanon.asp Maps http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/dhistorymaps/Arab-Israel%20Pages/aitoc.htm Palestinian response http://electronicintifada.net/forreference/israelidocs/mfafaq.html Sinai campaign (1956) http://www.adl.org/ISRAEL/Record/sinai.asp Six day war http://info.jpost.com/1998/Supplements/30years/ Yom-Kippur war http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/1973toc.html Balkan wars Columbia encyclopaedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/ba/BalkanWa.html Maps http://www.bulgariaonline.bg/macedonia/maps.htm Biafra BBC view http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/596712.stm Biafra Actualisation Forum http://www.biafraland.com Federation of American scientists www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/biafra.htm Map http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/biafra.htm Photo-essay http://emeagwali.com/photos/biafra/photo-essay-on-biafra.html Boer war Boer perspective http://abw.netfirms.com Diary (1900) http://web.ukonline.co.uk/boerwar/index.htm Virtual museums http://www.anglo-boer.co.za and http://www.bowlerhat.com.au/sawvl Chechen Russian soldier's account www.lib.ru/MEMUARY/CHECHNYA/chechen_war.txt Timeline www.infoplease.com/spot/chechnyatime1.html Chinese Civil War Communist party takeover www.wsu.edu:8001/~dee/MODCHINA/REV2.HTM Long March www.paulnoll.com/China/Long-March/index.html Mao's account www.marx2mao.org//Mao/CRCCP39.html Mao quotations and speeches www.marx2mao.org/Mao/Index.html and http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html and www.maoism.org/msw/mao_sw.htm Role of Marxism http://members.tripod.com/IB-Essays/China-Marxism_compare/index.html Taiwan's history www.taiwandc.org/history.htm Taiwan timeline http://taiwanresources.com/info/history/chrono.htm The Long March www.iusb.edu/~journal/1999/Paper8.html The two phases of the war www.xrefer.com/entry/212755 Cold War A bipolar world www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook46.html#The%20Cold%20War CIA document www.cia.gov/csi/books/19335/art-1.html CNN coverage www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war Compact history www.coldwar.net Harvard project www.fas.harvard.edu/%7ehpcws NSA www.nsa.gov/docs/cuba Nuclear weapons http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/hew Reagan and the Soviets www.reagan.dk Cuban missile crisis Audio of the Cuban crisis www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban Bay of Pigs documents www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cuba.htm Marxist view on Cuban crisis www.marxists.org/history/cuba/subject/missile-crisis U2 documents www.fas.org/irp/imint/doc_u2/index.html Yale law school on Cuban crisis www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cubamenu.htm Falklands Background www.yendor.com/vanished/falklands-war.html Battles www.naval-history.net/NAVAL1982FALKLANDS.htm BBC (20 years on) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/falklands British veterans www.sama82.org.uk British view www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/index.html Guardian newspaper backgrounder www.guardian.co.uk/falklands Thatcher's role examined www.thatcherweb.com/revolution/falklands Videos http://met.open.ac.uk/group/cpv/falkland.htm Grenada invasion Backgrounder www.historyguy.com/Grenada.html Photos www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/grenada.htm US ships used www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq95-1.htm Honduras-El Salvador war 1969 Backgrounder www.onwar.com/aced/data/sierra/soccer1969.htm India-Pakistan Indian war backgrounder www.allianceforlifelonglearning.org/er/lg/IndiaPakistanK.shtml Indian backgrounder www.ipcs.org/issues/indo_pak-index.htm Indian military history http://regiments.org/milhist/southasia/india.htm Kashmir www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/kashmir/ and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/355280.stm Peace campaign www.angelfire.com/sd/urdumedia/peace.html 1965 war www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Army/Patton2.html Indochina war Battle of Dien Bien Phu www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/spotlight French operations http://frenchnavy.free.fr/history/wars-operations/indochine/indochina.htm History http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~eemoise/viet3.html The first war http://home.att.net/~r.hodgeman/history1.html Iran-Iraq Atomic energy commission www.iaea.org/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam BBC view http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1814659.stm Chemical history http://projects.sipri.se/cbw/research/factsheet-1984.html CIA's involvement questioned www.zmag.org/bouzidlat.htm Global security organisation background www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq.htm Guardian newspaper coverage www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/0,2759,423009,00.html Iraq land forces www.regiments.org/milhist/mideast/iraq.htm Kurdistan government www.krg.org and www.puk.org and www.kdp.pp.se Military history www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/iran-iraq.htm Official US line http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/ Operation Desert Storm www.desert-storm.com and www.defenselink.mil/specials/desert_fox/ Sanctions against Iraq www.iacenter.org/iraq.htm UN monitoring convention www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/index.htm Korean war Photos http://johnhamill.tripod.com Timeline www.tcsaz.com/koreanwar.html US view http://korea50.army.mil Web sites http://members.aol.com/veterans/warlib6k.htm Maori wars Battlefield photos http://home.earthlink.net/~cyberkiwi/soldiers/battles.htm Battles www.icenter.net/~gisby/maori.htm British involvement www.regiments.org/milhist/wars/19thcent/45maori.htm NZ wars www.newzealandwars.co.nz Taranaki the 155 year war http://webnz.co.nz/tekorero/taranaki/tar1.html Nicaragua Chronology of events www.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/382_8.html Iran contra affair http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/icintro.htm Noam Chomsky's view www.zmag.org/chomsky/sam/sam-2-03.html Nigerian civil war Background www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/war/biafra.htm Biafran war www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/nigeria/biafra.html Independence group www.biafraland.com Photos http://emeagwali.com/photos/biafra/photo-essay-on-biafra.html Peace groups Crimes of war www.crimesofwar.org Human rights watch www.hrw.org/justice Institute of peace reporting www.iwpr.net International humanitarian law www.cicr.org/eng/ihl Nonviolent Web www.nonviolence.org Russo-Japanese Fact book www.skalman.nu/russo-japanese Research society www.russojapanesewar.com Somali Archive of essays www.netnomad.com/somalia-archive.html Libertarian view www.boogieonline.com/revolution/multi/war/somalia.html UN worker's diary www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/PUBS/SLANT/SPRING/somalia.html US TV analysis www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush Spanish civil war Civil war archive http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/spancivwar/Spanishcivilwar.htm l Spanish revolution www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9820 Vietnam Fall of Saigon www.fallofsaigon.org Mylai massacre www.pathfinder.com/photo/essay/mylai/mylaihp.htm New York Times on the fall www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/saigon PBS (US TV) site www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam Pentagon papers www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48 Photos www.pieceuniquegallery.com Quotes and analysis www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam Timeline www.vietnampix.com US history site http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/vietnam Vietnam Internet project www.vwip.org/vwiphome.html Other sites http://history1900s.about.com/cs/vietnamwar and www.refstar.com/vietnam/online_study.html Yugoslav Balkans human rights issues www.greekhelsinki.gr/bhr/english/index.html BBC site on Kosovo http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/inside_kosovo/default.stm Human rights watch on Kosovo www.hrw.org/reports/2000/fry South Eastern Europe www.southeasteurope.org I take no responsibility for the contents of these sites. 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