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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Vietnam War
Learn about the war that enmeshed the United States in a battle against communism in Southeast Asia for more than twenty years.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Learn about the Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation in the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement
Learn about the origins, strategies, and unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Culture From 1945 to 1960
A quick comprehension check over events involving the culture in the United States from 1945 to 1960.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Postwar Diplomacy
A quick comprehension check over postwar diplomacy in the United States after WWII.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Baby Boom
Find out why there were so many babies born in the United States after World War II.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Pearl Harbor
December 7, 1941 was a "date which will live in infamy," according to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese led the United States to enter World War II.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: The Manhattan Project and the Atomic Bomb
In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, ending World War II.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Great Depression
A quick comprehension check of the Great Depression period in the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Prohibition
In 1920, the United States banned the sale and import of alcoholic beverages.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Manifest Destiny
In the mid-nineteenth century, newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term 'manifest destiny' to describe the belief that God intended for the United States to occupy North America from Atlantic to Pacific.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Failure of Reconstruction
The abolition movement sought to end the practice of slavery in the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: African Americans in the Early Republic
A quick comprehension check over African Americans in the early republic of the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: An Age of Reform
Take this quick self assessment over the age of reform in the United States.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1754 1800: The Presidency of George Washington
As the first president of the United States, George Washington set several important precedents for the federal government.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: The Louisiana Purchase and Its Exploration
In 1803, Jefferson made a controversial decision that effectively doubled the territory of the United States while transgressing his own views of proper presidential authority.
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Khan Academy: Us History: 1754 1800: Shays's Rebellion
Armed rebellion in the newly-formed United States of America led to the creation of a stronger central government.
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Khan Academy: Ap Us History
A landing page for the AP US History course. We have 34 from here, but nothing from several of the time periods. But we likely have most or all of the individual lessons under the US history course, which has 125. .
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Age of Jefferson and Madison
[Free Registration/Login Required] After a brief description of Thomas Jefferson's and James Madison's contributions to the early ideology and government of the new United States in their authorship of the Declaration of Independence and...
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Khan Academy: Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
This practice exercise from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The responses to mass immigration to the United States during the Gilded Age is reviewed in this resource. This resource is designed as a review for...
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Wwii: American Home Front
A thorough PowerPoint study tool engaging students reviewing what was happening in the United States during World War II.
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Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The Us in Wwi: The Treaty of Versailles
Looks at the Treaty of Versailles, what its terms were, why America never ratified it or joined the League of Nations, why Germans grew to resent the burdens it imposed on them, and how this contributed to Hitler's rise to power....
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Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: The End of the Cold War
Take a quick comprehension check over the end of the Cold War.
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Khan Academy: Eastern Shoshone: Hide Painting of the Sun Dance
Painting on animal hides is a longstanding tradition of the Great Basin and Great Plains people of the United States. Painting, in tandem with oral traditions, functioned to record history.Cotsiogo, a member of the Eastern Shoshone...