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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTelegram from Senator Joseph McCarthy to President Harry S. Truman
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American Democracy, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis lesson relates to the interaction between the executive and legislative branches dealing with the security of our nation an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnti-Castro Units Land in Cuba; Report Fighting at Beachhead; Rusk Says U.S. Won't Intervene
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, details the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. About 1,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWitch Hunt or Red Menace? Anticommunism in Postwar America, 1945-1954
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn about the Communist witch hunts led in the 1950s by Senator Josep...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHalf Life: The Lethal Legacy of America's Nuclear Waste
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Health & Physical Education, Health Education, Geography and 4 additional..This National Geographic Magazine feature focuses on the radioactive waste that is the legacy of the Cold War s nuclear arms rac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCitizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bombmaker
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, Physics, Science, World HistoryCitizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bombmaker tells the story of a complex, world-class physicist who became the driving force the Sovie...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAtom Spy Couple Sentenced to Die; Aide Gets 30 Years
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to de...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryIn this unit of three lessons, from EDSITEment, students explore the origins of the Cold War between the United States and the S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe War in Vietnam: A Story in Photographs
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, American Democracy and 4 additional..This lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to Article I, Section 8, which grants Congre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Country Study: Vietnam
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Economics, Geography, World HistoryRead about the geography of Vietnam in this country study, provided by American Memory at the Library of Congress. Included is i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Strategy of Containment, 1947-1948
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students examine the origins of the Cold War between the United States...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSources of Discord, 1945-1946
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students examine the origins of the Cold War between the United States...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentThe Soldier’s Experience- Vietnam versus World War I
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceAnalyze museum artifacts and first-person accounts of World War I and the Vietnam War, then take on the role of soldiers and a n...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Was the United States in Vietnam?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis essay, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Web site Digital History, considers the positive and negative aspects of American invol...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVietnam Veterans WWW Resources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, World History, English-Language ArtsThis page, from Vietnam War veteran Theodore D. Nellen, offers links to Vietnam Veterans resources on the Internet. Links inclu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEast German Troops Seal Border with West Berlin to Block Refugee Escape
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhotographs and Pamphlet About Nuclear Fallout
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, American Democracy and 4 additional..This lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to the duties and powers of the president and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"The Missiles of October": The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryIn this EDSITEment lesson, students examine the development of the Cuban Missile Crisis. They consider the Kennedy administratio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTruman Acts to Save Nations From Red Rule
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American Democracy, World HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how President Truman established what became known ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExperiments for Hydrogen Bomb Held Successfully at Eniwetok; Leaks About Blast Under Inquiry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, describes how the United States exploded the first hydrogen b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKorea: The Right War? At What Price?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis essay, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Web site Digital History, considers whether the Korean War was necessary. One of ten es...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0