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BBC

Bbc News: Q&a: Macedonia Peace Process

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the strife between the Macedonian military and ethnic Albanian insurgents. How did it start? Who are the main parties involved? Casualties and war crimes? Introduction to the Peace Process as well as challenges to it....
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Website
US Department of State

Office of the Historian: Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps, 1961 1969

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at the Alliance for Progress and the assistance it promised for Latin American countries who agreed to increase democracy in their governments. See what successes there were through this program. Also read a brief overview of the...
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Article
Country Studies US

Country Studies: The War in Vietnam

For Students 9th - 10th
The Vietnam War encompassed many decades and many presidents. This site from Country Studies provides a brief, yet comprehensive, history of the war in Vietnam.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Russo Japanese War

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on the Russo-Japanese War, including background, outbreak, military campaigns, battles, peace agreement, the war's aftermath, and its impact on culture.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The War Behind the Lines

For Students 5th - 8th
The battlegrounds were not the only places affected by the Civil War. Read about how both the North and South carried out foreign diplomacy, the effect of the war on the economies of the two sides, and how the role of women in both the...
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Website
Tufts University

Tufts University: Peloponnesian War & Athenian Life

For Students 9th - 10th
An outline history with details on the various events of the war between Athens and Sparta. In addition, there is a section which examines the effects of the war on life in Athens.
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Handout
Ancestry

Rootsweb: The Creek War

For Students 9th - 10th
Following the Revolutionary War, more and more settlers began to migrate into what was the territory of the Indians. By the early 19th century, there was open hostilty between whites and Indians. Farmers wanted more land and the Indians...
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Website
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:islamist Movements [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This paper examines the impact on the war in Lebanon war in 2006 on two Islamist movements and how they were able to portray the war in an anti-American and anti-Israel light and advance their own goals.
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Website
Other

Learn Peace: Siegfried Sassoon

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource on the importance of writer and poet, Siegfried Sassoon's work, who wrote about the brutal realities of war.
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Article
BBC

Bbc News: Fragile Peace in Nagorno Karabakh

For Students 9th - 10th
An article describing conditions in Nagorno-Karabakh ten years after the end of a bloody civil war in which Nagorno-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan. So far the country of Nagorno-Karabakh is unrecognized by the world's...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs: Lost Peace

For Students 9th - 10th
Two interesting interviews with eyewitnesses who were involved in two important events after World War I: The League of Nations and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.
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Website
University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Abraham Lincoln: Domestic Affairs

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive look at the domestic policies of the Lincoln Administration. Although the many issues involved with the Civil War were top priority, many decisions about other domestic problems were made that had a lasting effect. From...
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Unit Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough review of Woodrow Wilson's foreign policies in these four lessons offered by EDSITEment. Learn the origins of "Wilsonianism," Wilson's views on relations with countries in Latin America, Wilson's decision to enter World War I,...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Peace Corps

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed facts on the Peace Corps, established by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to promote world peace and friendship.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: George Washington: First in War, First in Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Primary texts allow learners to examine George Washington's leadership in times of war and during his presidency. Lesson includes list of excerpts of primary texts, including maps, letters, and speeches, group activities, discussion...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: War and Peace

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "War and Peace", created by Jean Goujon during the 1550's (Stone).
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: The Treaty of Versailles

For Students 9th - 10th
The 1919 Treaty of Paris ended World War I, but imposed heavy penalties on Germany.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: The Beaver Wars

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the wars the Iroquois fought with other tribes and with the French in the last half of the 17th century, in their efforts to win control of the fur trade. A peace treaty was signed in 1701 to end the fighting.
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Other

Historical Boys' Clothing: The American Civil War: Reconstruction

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the major programs of the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, and the discrimination that African Americans faced, such as from the Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan. Also discusses the amendments made to the Constitution...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: End of the Vietnam War

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a summary and detailed facts about the reasons for the end of the Vietnam war.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Kids: It's My Life: When Friends Fight: Make Peace, Not War

For Students 3rd - 8th
Peek inside the highs and lows of adolescent friendships. Learn strategies to get through a fight with a friend, to overcome the urge to gossip and spread rumors, and to make or accept a sincere apology.
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Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Iraq: The Challenge of Securing the Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive two-day lesson plan that engages students in consideration of divergent policy alternatives concerning how the situation in Iraq should be handled, who should be in charge, and what the goals should be.
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Article
BBC

Bbc: Long Haul Fight to Defeat Taleban

For Students 9th - 10th
A June 2007 analysis of what must be accomplished to defeat the Taleban and bring peace to Afghanistan. Also contains links to related subjects.
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Activity
Other

Carnegie Council: The Voice for Ethics in International Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
The Carnegie Council's web site discussing the ethics of war and peace, global social justice, religion in politics, and other international policy issues. They state they are nonpartisan and independent on their site.

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