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Exploring the Life and Legacy of Anne Frank
12th Mar 2024
How much do you know about Anne Frank? World War 2 education is not complete without some understanding of Anne Frank’s experience, and that of her family. Knowing certain Anne Frank facts provokes serious thought about how something like the Holocaust could happen, because studying Anne Frank and facts about her life offers a window into the disrupted life of a normal family, in a modern city, in a time more recent than it may seem.
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Forgotten Friday – International Women’s Day – Women at War
7th Mar 2024
It’s Friday, which means it’s #ForgottenFriday! Today we are celebrating the courageous women who did their part in WWII.
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Forgotten Friday – The Atlantic Charter
28th Feb 2024
Even before the US became an official belligerent in WWII, President Roosevelt worried about the common war aims of the US, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. By covenant and inference Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin had agreed to the defeat of Nazi Germany as a common war aim for their nations to survive and prosper. Germany would be forced to disarm, reform, and submit to an international treaty regime that would forever restrict its power for imperialistic expansion and political coercion through the threat of war.
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Forgotten Friday – Barrage Balloons and the Defence of Britain By Trish Wade
22nd Feb 2024
During World War Two Fighter and Bomber Command were the most well-known Royal Air force Sections, however, there was another Command which many people are not aware of, although many have seen the photographs of the big silver spherical balloons hanging in the sky, this was Balloon Command
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Women in World War II: Breaking Barriers on the Frontlines
2nd Feb 2024
With thousands of men away serving on the front lines of World War II, it fell to women to take on roles that challenged traditional gender norms. Across the globe, women took on a wide variety of roles, including war work and important work on the home front. Some women worked in combat roles, others worked as mechanics, engineers, and drivers, others served as nurses, others in factories, and others outside of formal military service, in resistance movements in France, Italy, and Poland. The barriers broken by women during the war years paved the way for the gender equality movement that is still ongoing today.
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