If you have chosen to focus on Leaders of World War II for your presentation you can choose from the list of leaders below or you may find other leaders you want to focus on through your research. You must focus on their accomplishments and how they contributed to the war effort. Be sure to give some background information on the person (people) you choose.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Hideki Tojo Hirohito
You may have difficulty deciding on which leader(s) to focus on. The websites below are good places to begin your search. You may also use them as resources for your completed project.
History.com - this is the website for the History Channel. You can search for any leader you choose and find articles and video about that person. One important thing to know as you search this site is that all results are limited to the History.com site, the search function does not search the web.
Britannica.com - this website is best used through the Dewey portal. If you log on from school you can see the full articles. If you log in from home and do not go through the Dewey portal (going to our site and logging in with your student id to the databases) you will only see a portion of each article. Even a portion of each article is enough to give you some useful information.
Biography.com - this is the website for the Biography Channel. You may not find every person you search for on this site but many figures from World War II are profiled on this site. You will find articles and videos on this site. The search results are limited to this site.
It is highly recommended that you choose your subject with care. Review Evaluating ResourcesBEFORE you go on the web. You must evaluate each source you consult, there is misinformation about these leaders readily available when you do a web search.