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Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 3 - Internment
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American Democracy, U.S. ConstitutionIn this section of "A More Perfect Union," an online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Japanese-Americans and the U.S. Constitution: Topic 4 - Loyalty
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American Democracy, U.S. ConstitutionIn this section of "A More Perfect Union," an online exhibition from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Becoming Aware of the Japanese American Internment Camp Experience
Grades: 2 to 6Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American Democracy, U.S. ConstitutionWhat would it have felt like to be forced to move into an internment camp during World War II? This lesson, from the Smithsonia...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Japanese American Exclusion Orders During World War II
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, American Democracy, U.S. ConstitutionWhen Japanese Americans were ordered to move to internment camps during World War II, they were forced to sell most of their pos...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Ansel Adams's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at Manzanar
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Principles of Democracy, Immigration and Migration, United States, California, World War IIIn 1943, Ansel Adams (1902-1984), America's most well-known photographer, documented the Manzanar War Relocation Center in Calif...Contributor: Library of CongressViews: 0Favorites: 0For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, World War II, World HistoryFor European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of American assistan...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, World History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States HistoryArthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom features one of America's leading political illustrators and cartoonists. Throughout his career ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Remembering Pearl Harbor
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World HistoryRemembering Pearl Harbor describes the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and features the USS Arizona, a battleship on which ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Ancestors in the Americas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Immigration and Migration, History-Social Science, United States HistoryAncestors in the Americas is a companion website for the PBS series by the same name and explores the history and stories of Asi...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World HistoryA Date Which Will Live in Infamy shows the typewritten draft of the December 8, 1941, speech in which Franklin Roosevelt asked C...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Attu: North American Battleground of World War II
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, World War II, World HistoryAttu: North American Battleground of World War II is the site of the only land battle on the North American continent during Wor...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0The War Relocation Camps of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World History, The Civil Rights MovementThe War Relocation Camps of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger than Justice examines the causes and effects of President Frank...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World HistoryThe Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific examines a pivotal World War II battle. In the spring of 1942, Japan atte...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0On the Homefront
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, World War II, World History, World War IOn the Homefront features posters and images illustrating some of the ways American's at home contributed to war efforts oversea...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Churchill and the Great Republic
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World HistoryChurchill and the Great Republic presents more than 200 photos, speeches, and letters from one of the most important and colorfu...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceA More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution tells the story that began during World War II, when nearly 1...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0After the Day of Infamy
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World HistoryAfter the Day of Infamy offers 12 hours of interviews recorded in the days and months following the bombing of Pearl Harbor from...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0World War II Military Situation Maps, 1944-1945
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World HistoryWorld War II Military Situation Maps, 1944-1945 contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944, to July 26, 194...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0Pictures of World War II
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: History-Social Science, World War II, United States History, World History, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsPictures of World War II presents more than 100 photos from battlefronts around the world. Topics include aviation, battle of B...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0American Memory: The Learning Page Lesson Plans - Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Electives, Sociology, Psychology, History-Social Science, American DemocracyWhat was the World War II experience like for the thousands of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast? The activities in th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0