http://historyexplorer.si.edu/rss?key=resourcesSmithsonian's History Explorer Resources Related To Book "A Boy No More"http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1026http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1026<p>Students will learn how Americans joined the Allies to defeat Axis militarism and nationalist expansion. Sixteen million Americans donned uniforms in this section of the online exhibition <em>The Price of Freedom: Americans at War</em>. The millions more who stayed home comprised a vast civilian army, mobilized by the government to support the war effort.&nbsp;The world-wide conflict that led to the emergence of the United States as an economic and military superpower is divided into sections that allow students to focus either on a specific aspect of the war, or the conflict as a whole. The sections included are titled: Axis Aggression, America Enters the War, Mobilizing for War, "You're in the Army Now", Battle of the Atlantic, The Mediterranean Theater, Storming Fortress Europe, The Pacific Theater; So Others Might Fight; Morale Boosters and Victory and Peace. A non-flash version of the site is available: <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=9">World War II</a>.<strong></strong></p>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:24:47 GMT