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- Another massive site: teachers use, probably, initially, although you’ll use it to find sites for your children. If they want to read the originals, here they are!
- All ages will love this site on US Government. This site transcends unit boundaries. It’s GREAT!
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Week 2: The Progressive Era
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
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Week 4: Deadlock and Death
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Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
Week 7: Postwar America
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Prohibition *content is good and relevant, but noticed that pop up ads exist
- 18th Amendment
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
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Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Read original documents about the New Deal
- Fireside Chats of FDR
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
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Week 15: World-Wide War
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
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Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
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Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Mao Zedong’s Government
- President Truman’s Statement on US Policy Toward China. From the New York Times, December 15, 1945
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
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Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
Week 23: Conformity and Change
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Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
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Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
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Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
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Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
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Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- Employment Division v. Smith
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- US v. Lopez
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Bush v. Gore
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
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