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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lend-Lease Act
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Economics, United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRefugees and War: The Effect - Image Gallery
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Electives, American Democracy, World History, Geography and 2 additional..This image gallery includes photos and images of the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II. It is found in National Geographi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkD-Day
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Economics, American Democracy, United States History, World History and 2 additional..This PBS Teacher s Guide accompanies their film and Web site D-Day. The film offers insights into topics in American history, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Atomic Age Begins
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, United States History, History-Social Science, PhysicsThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAmericans Invade Okinawa in Ryukyus; Seize 2 Airfields; First Resistance Light; 9th and 1st Armies Join, Circling Ruhr
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network, appeared on April 1, 1945, and reported that American forces ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFranklin D. Roosevelt: Four Freedoms Speech
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis page, from W.W. Norton Publishing, features the text of Franklin D. Roosevelt s 1941 Four Freedoms Speech, in which the P...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlack Soldiers in WW II: Fighting Enemies at Home and Abroad
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: United States History, Geography, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis article from National Geographic News describes segregation in the United States Armed Forces during World War II.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFreedom by the Fireside: The Legacy of FDR's "Four Freedoms" Speech
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social Science, U.S. ConstitutionIn this EDSITEment lesson, students become familiar with the substance, context, subtext, and significance of the most famous po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow "Grand" and "Allied" Was the Grand Alliance?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students explore the nature of what Winston Churchill called the Grand...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVeterans History Project: D-Day: On the Beach
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThe Library of Congress Veterans History Project presents this collection of war stories and memories about the experience of t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRace for the Superbomb
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Chemistry, Theatre, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 4 additional..At the dawn of the Cold War, the United States initiated a top secret program in New Mexico to build a weapon even more powerful...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPowers of Persuasion: FDR's Four Freedoms Speech
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, United States History, History-Social ScienceFind background information on Franklin D. Roosevelt s famous Four Freedoms speech, including an audio clip of the speech and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJapanese Surrender Okinawa
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, Geography, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis page, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, focuses on significant events in American history and culture associ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrisoner in One's Own Home: An Examination of the Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the causes and effects of the internment of 120,000 J...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJ. Robert Oppenheimer
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Science, History-Social Science, Physics, World HistoryThis resource from HyperHistory Online is a brief biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. His work as director of the atomic bomb pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnola Gay
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis National Air and Space Museum resource features information about the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber used in the atomic mission...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAs 60th Anniversary Dawns, D-Day Vets Remember
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn this National Geographic News article, read about how, in 2004, two veterans and one historian led National Geographic Expedi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUntold Stories of D-Day
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Types of Media, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, World History, Visual Arts and 2 additional..This National Geographic Magazine photo gallery presents five photographs focusing the places and people involved in the D-day I...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDepression and World War II: Uncle Sam Wants YOU!
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Electives, United States History, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts and 2 additional..This Web page, part of the Jump Back in Time section of the America s Story Web site, describes the role played by the Office ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGiving Voice to History
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Writing Strategies and 3 additional..In this ARTSEDGE lesson, students come to understand a somber period in American history. During World War II the U.S. governmen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0