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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Influential Speeches

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of 47 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic Influential Speeches. What makes a great speech, and what makes a great speech memorable? Study some of the most influential speeches in history and learn how they...
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: 1983 United States Embassy Bombing

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about what happened during the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut. Sixty-three people were killed in this attack.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was the United States response to possible nuclear attacks set up to develop an advanced anti-ballistic missile system to enable the United States to prevent missile attacks from the USSR and other...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Glasnost

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the policy of Glasnost that was used by Mikhail Gorbachev to bring reforms to the Soviet Union.
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Curated OER

Fact Monster: Famous Presidential Speeches

For Students 3rd - 8th
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and others have their famous presidential speeches captured in this database.

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