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Northwestern University

World War Ii: Posters

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site view World War II through a history of posters printed at the time. You can search for posters by subject area.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Civil War, a Nation Divided

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A wonderful resource using primary and secondary source materials to explore many facets of the Civil War from the war itself to its impact on the home front. Includes video and text downloads.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Research Starters: World War Ii Military Operations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a comprehensive aid to leading research projects about military operations in World War II.
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Other

Texas Historical Commission: Texas in the Civil War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive 36-page history of the Civil War in Texas. Includes numerous images, maps, primary documents, profiles of leading figures, a timeline, and information about battles. Specific topics are addressed, such as the cotton...
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Primary
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Wilson Center: Cold War History

For Students 9th - 10th
A large collection of documents from the Cold War era.
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Other

Texas Historical Commission: Texas in World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Get an idea of what Texas was like during World War II, including a look at Texas during the 1940s, what military presence was like, and how Texas changed after the war.
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Website
Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum: Cold War Modern: Design,1945 70

For Students 9th - 10th
Museum exhibition canvasses the design of the cold war period. The focus of the exhibition is on making the connections between artistic production of the time and the era's prevailing political and social ideas.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: War in Europe [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit that covers the period from the Second World War up to the Cold War. It looks at the course of the war in Europe, and America's involvement after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It examines the military strategies...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: America in the Second World War

For Students 5th - 8th
A brief description of the course of World War II in both Europe and the Pacific. Read about the new technologies developed for the military by both the Allies and Axis powers, and find out about the millions who died as a result of the...
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Civil War Home

Home of the American Civil War: Women in Uniform in the Civil War

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the women who actually fought during the Civil War and what provoked them to do this. From the Civil War Society's "Encyclopedia of the Civil War."
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: War in Europe: Who Was Responsible? [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a great overview of the events that immediately followed the assassination of Austria's Crown Prince Francis Ferdinand in Serbia in the lead-up to the start of World War I.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Going to War!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this 21st Century roleplay instructional activity, students use what they know about causes of the Civil War to have an educated discussion with another class. By utilizing Skype, students and teachers collaborate with one another in...
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Boise State University

European History: The Peloponnesian War

For Students 9th - 10th
PowerPoint style site traces the beginnings of the Peloponnesian War, the Delian League, and the Archidamian War. Includes references and further reading.
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Handout
Digital History

Digital History: The Cold War in Developing Countries

For Students 9th - 10th
In Europe, there was less violence in the half century following World War II then in almost any previous period of modern European history. Yet outside of Europe and North America, violent conflict became commonplace. In the decades...
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Handout
US Department of Veterans Affairs

U.s. Department of Veterans Affairs: America's Wars [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact sheet listing the numbers of military service members, deaths, and woundings in each war America has been involved in since the American Revolution. It also gives names of the last survivors of earlier wars, estimates of living...
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Other

American Friends Service Committee: Eyes Wide Open: Human Cost of the Iraq War

For Students 9th - 10th
Traveling exhibit that reminds us of the human cost of the Iraq War. This exhibit memorializes those killed in the war with a field of shoes featuring a pair of boots for each U.S. military casualty. Also includes a memorial to Iraqi...
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Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: Second Punic War (Bc 218 201)

For Students 9th - 10th
This chapter from William Morey's 1901 text lays out the entire course of the Second Punic War. The brilliant military strategies of Hannibal and Scipio Africanus are thoroughly explained.
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Other

United States Early Radio History: Radio During World War One (1914 1919)

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating and comprehensive look at the use of the radio in the United States during World War I. In addition the general information, there are hyperlinks to many primary source articles about the use of the radio in civilian...
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Other

Canadian War Monuments: Manitoba's War Memorials

For Students 9th - 10th
War memorials are located throughout Manitoba. This site provides links to the various monuments as well as including photographs and documentation about them.
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Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: First Punic War

For Students 9th - 10th
Rome begins her expansion beyond the Italian peninsula with the First Punic War against Carthage. See why Carthage was such a formidable foe.
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Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: The Social War and the Rise of Sulla

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage from William Morey's 1901 textbook to learn about the social war and Sulla's part in it.
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Handout
Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: The Civil War Between Marius and Sulla

For Students 9th - 10th
In William Morey's 1901 textbook, this section considers the dispute between Marius and Sulla, resulting in a civil war.
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Primary
ibiblio

Ibiblio: World War Ii Resources: Events Learing Up to World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
The 78th Congress published a pamphlet in 1944 which gave a chronological history of events that led up to World War II. Read the very detailed information set out year by year. The introduction explains the scope of the pamphlet.
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Forum Romanum

Outlines of Roman History: Third Punic War and Reduction of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the exciting and futile attempt by Carthage to resist capture and destruction by the Romans in the Third Punic War.