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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider "The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: From Neutrality to War: The United States and Europe, 1921 1941

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Curriculum Unit, learners will consider "From Neutrality to War: The United States and Europe, 1921-1941" in 4 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: The Crisis of American Diplomacy, 1793 1808

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this Curriculum Unit, young scholars will consider "The Crisis of American Diplomacy, 1793-1808" in 3 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Avoiding Armageddon: Laws of Disarmament and Nonproliferation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan for learning about nuclear weapons and nonproliferation agreements. Takes students through the process of comparing and contrasting various treaties and of evaluating their relative successes and failures. Includes a...
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Website
Other

John Mc Adams: Marquette: Kennedy and the Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses John F. Kennedy and his role in the Cold War.
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Website
Other

Kent May 4 Center

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about the shooting of four Kent State students on May 4, 1970, including chronology, quotations, and descriptions of the students who were killed and wounded.
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Article
Mount Holyoke College

Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch 1795

For Students 9th - 10th
This paper, written by philosopher Immanuel Kant, sets guidelines for enacting and maintaining world peace.
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Primary
Vassar College

Vassar College: President Nixon's Speech on Cambodia

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the speech made by President Richard Nixon on April 30, 1970 announcing attacks on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border.
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Handout
The White House

The White House: Presidents: Ronald Reagan

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. The biography contains a picture as well as a link to the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum.
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Article
BBC

Bbc: South Korea's Reconciliation Gamble

For Students 9th - 10th
A May 2007 examination of the South Korea's on going efforts to develop better relations with North Korea with generous aid packages and international criticism of these efforts. (17 May 2007)
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Article
BBC

Bbc: South Koreans Vent Fury at Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
A March 2005 news report on the dispute between South Korea and Japan over a group of small unoccupied islands known in Japan as the Takeshima.
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Website
Other

The Progressive Magazine

For Students 9th - 10th
Homepage of the national magazine for peace and social justice, THE PROGRESSIVE. Read recent news regarding social justice here.
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Handout
Other

Ed Web: Work Camps Life and Death in the Farming Co Ops

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes life on the farms and in the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: 54 40 or Fight

For Students 5th - 8th
See how James Polk's plan to claim the Oregon Territory, which had been shared with Great Britain since 1818, led him to victory with the slogan, Fifty-four forty or fight. Read about the settlers who traveled the Oregon Trail and why...
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Other

Pacific War: Far Eastern Strategy and the Washington Conference of 1921 1922

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough examination of the post-World War I Washington Naval Conference which dealt with treaties with Japan, the U.S. desire for naval supremacy, and the compromise of War Plan Orange, which had a drastic effect on U.S. strategy in...
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Website
US Department of State

U.s. Department of State: Stimson Doctrine

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from the U.S. Department of State provides a copy of the Stimson Doctrine. The information is only one paragraph in length, but factual and worth checking out on the subject.
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Website
Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Lessons: World War Ii

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This web page is a personal site of lesson plans and unit plans regarding World War II. Innovative lessons are for a variety of grades.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Non Intercourse Act

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of the 1809 Non-Intercourse Act was to permit U.S. trade with nations other than France and Great Britain and replaced the 1807 Embargo Act.
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Website
Other

Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site of Bangladesh's representation to the United Nations. There are links that profile the country of Bangladesh, as well as Bangladesh's participation in the UN. Specifically there are statements made during most recent...
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Website
Tour Costa Rica

The Nicaragua Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the Nicaraguan Revolution, with a focus on its relations with Costa Rica.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Jimmy Carter

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Portrait Gallery explores the facets of presidential actions toward the Cold War. Click on Jimmy Carter to watch a short video where he expresses his support for human rights across the world. The end of the video shows the...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: John Milton Hay

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress provides a very brief biography of U.S. Secretary of State from 1898-1905, John Milton Hay. Includes some photographs.
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Primary
Mount Holyoke College

International Relations: The Russian Reply to the Open Door Note

For Students 9th - 10th
Russia's reply to United States Secretary of State, John Hay's "Open Door Note" concerning trade in China.
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Primary
This Nation

This Nation: Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the text of the Proclamation of Neutrality issued by George Washington in April, 1793, showing his effort to keep his new nation safe from unhealthy alliances.

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