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The History Place

The History Place: Hitler Youth Prelude to War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place is about the Hitler youth movement and their support for Hitler before WWII. The information that is presented is in depth, and very interesting with links at the bottom of the article for additional...
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Digital History

Digital History: American Catholics

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Catholic church expanded rapidly due to the immigration of the Irish and Germans. Read about the prejudice against the church based mainly on the backlash to the immigration of "others." See also how the Catholic church took...
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The History Place

The History Place: Edouard Daladier

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides the text of a speech by French premier,Edouard Daladier, from January of 1940 following the fall of Poland. In the speech Daladier clearly implied that the policy of appeasement had been a failure.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Hitler on Trial for Treason

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Hitler's trial and imprisonment after the attempted coup in 1923. The trial made Hitler famous and exposed the German public to his political ideas.
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: Set Apart Religious Communities in Pennsylvania

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the history of Pennsylvania's religious communities in this detailed, historical account. Contained within this site are links to audio, video, and pictorial images of events and people during this era.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Hitler Is Homeless in Vienna

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Hitler's experiences during his years in Vienna after his mother's death, including his friendship with August Kubizek, his time living in a men's home where he supported himself by selling his art to Jewish shops, the...
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The History Place

The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: The Night of Broken Glass

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the actions of an angry young Jewish man, Herschel Grynszpan, who shot a German embassy official who later died. The event was used by Goebbels to justify a widespread attack on Jewish people across Germany and Austria. This...
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The History Place

The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: Nazis Take Czechoslovakia

For Students 9th - 10th
Once the German army was ensconced in the Sudetenland, Hitler set his sights on acquiring the rest of Czechoslovakia, despite having sworn he would stop in the Sudetenland. This page describes the events that unfolded as the invasion...
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The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: Poland Is Crushed

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the invasion of Poland in 1939 by the Germans with the support of Stalin's army.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: Catastrophe at Stalingrad

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Hitler's military strategy during the invasion of Russia and the Battle of Stalingrad where the Germans suffered massive losses.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: The Final Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the German flood of anti-Jewish propaganda and the brutal methods used by the Nazis against the Jews in order to achieve their Final Solution.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: D Day Invasion

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the events that took place leading up to and during the invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces and the losses that were suffered by the Germans.
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The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: Enter the Bunker

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the succession of defeats experienced by the Germans as the Allied forces advanced. Hitler conscripted old men who had served in WWI and young boys, sending them into battle where most died. Meanwhile he enacted a...
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Martin Luther, a German monk in the sixteenth century who spoke out about the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church. He also used the printing press, which had been recently invented, to spread his ideas more widely and thus...
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Stalemate on the Western Front

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes the military efforts of the British and the Germans to defeat the enemy early in the war, which resulted in lengthy trench warfare along the Western Front. This led to the use of poisonous gases by each side, with deadly...
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Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: Augustus and the Roman World

For Students 9th - 10th
William Morey, in his 1901 textbook, explains Augustus' administration of the three parts of the Roman Empire, Rome, Italy, and the provinces.
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Digital History

Digital History: Immigration Begins

For Students 9th - 10th
The United States has always been a melting pot. Read about the vast increase in immigration from countries in northern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s due to famine, eviction from land, and political unrest. See where various immigrant...
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El Easton: German Exercises, Quizzes, Tests and Games

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of quizzes, tests and games for improving German language skills.
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Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to History: Battle of Britain, 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
A riveting eyewitness account of an RAF pilot describing his participation in a dogfight over Britain when the Germans were attempting to bomb Great Britain into surrender at the beginning of World War II. Included is an audio of Winston...
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Historica Canada

History by the Minute: Juno Beach

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a series, this resource focuses on Juno Beach. The allies gathered to surprise the Germans, and to turn WW11 around. Canadians were assigned Juno Beach, meeting fierce battles but eventual triumph. Includes a brief video and...
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Other

Gutenberg: Man of the Millennium (German and English)

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers information on Johannes Gutenberg and the history of printing in Germany.
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Mother Earth Travel

Mother Earth Travel: The German Confederation, 1815 66

For Students 9th - 10th
The Congress of Vienna, following the defeat of Napoleon, eliminated small states scattered through out German and instead established the German Confederation. How did the Confederation work towards economic and political unity during...
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Mother Earth Travel

Mother Earth Travel: History of Germany: Bismarck and Unification

For Students 9th - 10th
Prussian King Wilhelm I selected Bismarck as his minister president and, through a course of short term wars, managed to unify and create the German Empire through the latter half of the nineteenth century. Discover details of what went...
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Mother Earth Travel

Mother Earth Travel: Medieval Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise historical resource identifies the German dynasties during medieval times. Know who the people of Germany were from ca. 500 through the Habsburgs who came into power in the late thirteenth century.