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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Classroom: Right to Vote Equality for Youth

For Students 9th - 10th
This website contains an interactive timeline about the history of the right to vote for our nations youth.
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Handout
Kent State University

Kent State University: Kent State Shootings: May 4 Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A digital collection of newspaper articles, photographs, and videos about the May 4th shooting on Kent State campus.
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Handout
The White House

The White House: Presidents: Lyndon B. Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of President Johnson and his accomplishments as President.
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Multicultural America: Cambodian Americans

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Cambodian Americans. (Note: Content is not the most current.)
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Handout
Central Intelligence Agency

Cia: World Factbook: Cambodia

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives facts and numbers regarding Cambodian history, including military, transnational issues, transportation, communication, economic, government, people and geography. It also includes maps and photos.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The New Left

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the New Left, its often radical ideas, and how its impact far exceeded the numbers of those who claimed to belong to the New Left.
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Article
University of Washington

University of Washington: May 1970 Student Antiwar Strikes

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the May 1970 antiwar strikes on college campuses involving over a million students including a map and list of 883 campuses where protest activities were reported.
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Article
University of Washington

University of Washington: Draft Resistance 1965 1972

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview, maps, and databases of the anti-draft movement.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: The Surprising Stories of 7 Heisman Trophy Winners

For Students 9th - 10th
The Heisman Trophy is awarded annually by the Downtown Athletic Club to the top player in college football's highest division. While many of those who have hoisted the trophy named for football coach and pioneer John Heisman initially...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Domino Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
Many of the Cold War presidents used the Domino Theory as the main justification for their involvement and intervention in the affairs of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, China, Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam as it related to the spread of...
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Curated OER

John Kerry (Second From Left, Top) During the Vietnam War

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News profiles the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry, touching on some of the similarities to John F. Kennedy that he and the press read into him.
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Scramble to Escape at the Us Embassy

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
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Graphic
Curated OER

The Last Evacuation of Us Troops

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Nva Tanks Smash Through the Palace Gates

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Triumphant Soldiers Raise the Flag

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Burning Truck

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
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Graphic
Curated OER

South Vietnamese Uniforms Lie Discarded in the Street

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides photograhs and narrative describing the fall of Saigon, Vietnam on 30 April 1975, when the last Marines were evacuated from the U.S. embassy roof and the incoming North Vietnamese Army smashed through the gates of the...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Kent State Shooting

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed and interesting information pertaining to the four students shot dead at Kent State University by Ohio National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970.
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: My Lai Massacre

For Students 9th - 10th
The My Lai Massacre in 1968 saw the mass killing of unarmed South Vietnamese people, most of whom were old men, women, and children, by American troops.
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Handout
Country Studies US

Country Studies: Detente

For Students 9th - 10th
As the Vietnam War ended, President Richard Nixon's priority became pursuing better relations with the world's two largest communist superpowers, China and the Soviet Union.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: Steps Leading to the Fall of Saigon and the Final, Chaotic Airlifts

For Students 9th - 10th
The conflict in Vietnam ended in 1975 with the largest helicopter evacuation of its kind in history. What led to the fall of Saigon? Although the United States had withdrawn its combat forces from Vietnam after the signing of the Paris...
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Article
NPR: National Public Radio

Npr: Conventions Past: 1968: Antiwar Rioters Engulf the Democrats

For Students 9th - 10th
NPR looks back at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, known for the antiwar student demonstrations staged there and the violence they engendered, not just election-year politics.
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Curated OER

Loc: Experiencing War, Military Medicine

For Students 9th - 10th
Stories focuses on military medicine and highlights personal accounts from doctors, nurses and individuals providing medical support.
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PPT
Other

Uss Alabama Battleship Memorial Park: Park Memorials

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Vietnam Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and more memorials located throughout the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park.