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Angelina, Ryan, Gabby Curator’s Office Angelina likes to play volleyball and likes to long board. Ryan likes to weight lift and skate board. Gabby likes to ride horses and get things pierced And we all like to party. Angelinabroshack@icloud. com Return to Entry Note: Virtual museums were first introduced by educators at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pennsylvania. This template was designed by Dr. Christy Keeler. View the Educational Virtual Museums website for more information on this instructional technique.

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Artifact 1 When you think of the weapons of WWII, what comes to mind? Planes, tanks, money? Bullets, machine-guns, and grenade launchers? Yes, all of these were important tools in the effort to win the war. But so was information. In this case, government issued information. Over the course of the war the U. S. government waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the public. Persuading Americans to support the war effort became a wartime industry, just as important as producing bullets and planes. The U. S. government produced posters, pamphlets, newsreels, radio shows, and movies-all designed to create a public that was 100% behind the war effort. http: //www. nationalww 2 museum. org/learn/education/forstudents/ww 2 -history/take-a-closer-look/war-bondspropaganda-posters. html Return to Exhibit

Artifact 2 World War 2 was the deadliest conflict to occur in human history resulting in between 50 to 70 million fatalities world-wide. It was the most widespread war to occur in human history with having more than 100 million people serve in military units and was conducted in a state of total war amongst the participating countries. http: //www. worldwar 2 facts. org/when-did-world-war-2 end. html Return to Exhibit

Artifact 3 On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history. Those who were selected from the draft lottery were required to serve at least one year in the armed forces. Once the U. S. entered WWII, draft terms extended through the duration of the fighting. By the end of the war in 1945, 50 million men between eighteen and forty-five had registered for the draft and 10 million had been inducted in the military. http: //www. nationalww 2 museum. org/learn/education/forstudents/ww 2 -history/take-a-closer-look/draft-registration -documents. html Return to Exhibit

Artifact 4 Women took on many roles in the Revolutionary War. Some of these roles were traditional while others were unconventional and even scandalous for the time. From supportive jobs like nurses, cooks and maids to more direct roles such as secret soldiers and spies, women did more than their share to help win America’s independence. http: //historyofmassachusetts. org/the-roles-of-women-inthe-revolutionary-war/ Return to Exhibit

Artifact 5 Together with its many satellite camps, Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937. The camp was constructed in 1937 in a wooded area on the northern slopes of the Ettersberg, about five miles northwest of Weimar in east-central Germany. Before the Nazi takeover of power, Weimar was best known as the home of leading literary figure Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a product of German liberal tradition in the eighteenth and early Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Artifact 6 Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II– Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question". Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Artifact 7 Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first regular concentration camp established by the Nazis in Germany. The camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, which is located in southern Germany. Heinrich Himmler, in his capacity as police president of Munich, officially described the camp as “the first concentration camp for political prisoners. ” Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Artifact 8 The Belzec death camp was located in the southeastern part of the Lublin District, near Belzec, a small village on the Lublin - Lviv railway line. In early 1940 the Germans set up a number of labor camps in the Belzec district, housing workers building the "Otto. Line", a series of fortifications on the border with the Soviet Union. These Jewish labour camps were disbanded in October 1940. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

m. K The Mk. II used the M 5, M 6, and M 10 series fuses. These early fuses made a loud "bang" and produced sparks when activated. They had other problems as well. The M 10 -series' powder train made a "hissing" sound as it burned, potentially alerting the enemy of its presence. The M 5 and M 6 series sometimes prematurely detonated when the flash from the primer hit the TNT charge rather than the delay fuse. Moisture could get in under the foil fuse cap, causing the weapon to fail to detonate. Improved smokeless and (almost) silent fuses (like the M 204 -series) were later fitted after World War II. http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Mk_ 2_grenade Return to Exhibit

Gun Shell Featured US 200 -pounder Parrott Shell Long Pattern. This has been collected by someone who collects them his name is Jack W. Melton. He has been an active collector for the war artifacts and this is one he found. http: //www. relicsofwar. com/ Return to Exhibit

Egg grenade The Model 39 (Eierhandgranate, "egg hand grenade") was a German hand grenade introduced in 1939 and produced until the end of World War II. The Eihandgranate used the same fuse assembly (the BZE 39) as the Model 43 Stielhandgranate ("Stick Grenade"), which was screwed into the top of the sheet-metal body. To activate, the domed cap was unscrewed, and the pull-cord that had been coiled inside it was tugged sharply igniting a friction fuze before throwing at the target. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

The Bar The BAR was designed to be carried by advancing infantrymen, slung over the shoulder or fired from the hip, a concept called "walking fire"—thought to be necessary for the individual soldier during trench warfare. However, in practice, it was most often used as a light machine gun and fired from a bipod (introduced in later models). A variant of the original M 1918 BAR, the Colt Monitor Machine Rifle, remains the lightest production automatic gun to fire the. 30 -06 Springfield cartridge, though the limited capacity of its standard 20 -round magazine tended to hamper its utility in that role. http: //www. ww 2 museum. eu/ge rmanmachineguns. html Return to Exhibit

Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths. http: //www. biography. com/people/adolf-hitler-9340144 Return to Exhibit

Heinrich Himmler (1900 -1945) was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler presided over a vast ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many—both inside and outside the Third Reich—as the second most powerful man in Germany during World War II. Given overall responsibility for the security of the Nazi empire, Himmler was the key and senior Nazi official responsible for conceiving and overseeing implementation of the so-called Final Solution, the Nazi plan to murder the Jews of Europe. http: //www. ushmm. org/wlc/en/article. php? Module. Id=10007407 Return to Exhibit

Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister as England entered World War II. He is known for his policy of "appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Josef Mengele officer and physician in Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He was notorious for the selection of victims to be killed in the gas chambers and for performing unscientific and often deadly human experiments on prisoners. After the war, he fled to South America, where he evaded capture for the rest of his life. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

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WW 2 Coming just two decades after the last great global conflict, the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries and resulting in more than 50 million military and civilian deaths (with some estimates as high as 85 million dead). Sparked by Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the war would drag on for six deadly years until the final Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit