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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Palmer Raids

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Examining resources from Palmer and Goldman, students will consider what caused the Palmer Raids after World War I ended. The goal of the Palmer Raids was to incarcerate or deport those left-wing...
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Activity
Digital History

Digital History: The Postwar Red Scare

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents factual information on the history of the Red Scare that caused hysteria and panic in the United States after World War I.
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Activity
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: The Red Scare

For Students 9th - 10th
In-depth information about the Red Scare that started in the United States at the end of World War I, and ended in the early 1920s. Discusses its history, including strikes in Seattle and Boston, causes, and results of the anti-communist...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The Us in Wwi: The Treaty of Versailles

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

Lebensraum: Living Space for the German Race

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides a discussion of the concept of "Lebensraum," or "living space" for the German people. This was one of Hitler's main justifications for his military conquests.