Resources will be added throughout the Unit.
Developments Over the Course of the 20th Century
- SAMPLE TIMELINE:
- Click here for the Strayer Timeline from 1900-2000
VIDEO REVIEWS:
Heimler's History Videos (STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!)- 20th Century Playlist Part One
- 20th Century Playlist Part Two
- 20th Century Playlist Part Three
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Relevant Crash Course & Khan Academy & History Channel Videos: - Crash Course: Globalization Part One <-- strongly recommended
- Crash Course: Globalization Part Two
- Crash Course Cold War in Asia
- Crash Course: Decolonization
Video Lectures from other teachers: - Full time period review video lectures from Ms. Gorges: Part One and Part Two and Part Three
TEXT REVIEWS:- Kaz's Study Guide
- See sample review chapters posted on the Daily Calendar!
- "Cheat Sheet" Summaries of Content: Parts: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six
- Cram Packet from Ms. Oz and Review Guide from Ms. Oz
- Period 6 Review Videos from Mr. Lasseter (he also has a review packet that goes along with the videos!) Click here for Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
- Freemanpedia on Period 6 & Freemanpedia JUST independence movements outline
- Podcasts on World Wars, Interwar Period, and Cold War - Great for the car
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Various 20th Century Topics:
1960s Video Clip:
WWI Resources
- Global Connections of WWI
- WatchMojo: How did it start? 2 min clip
- WatchMojo: Weapons and Technology
- WatchMojo: How did it end?
- WatchMojo: The Aftermath of the War
- WatchMojo: Which countries fought?
- WatchMojo: Treaty of Versailles
- 6 min overview: Causes, Main Events, End
- Hip Hughes: WWI in Ten Minutes
- Crash Course World History Review: WWI
- Horrible Histories (funny): Causes of WWI
- History Channel Clips (Start, Trench Warfare, Sinking of the Lusitania! Go through the list by clicking right on the videos at the bottom)
- The Role of China during WWI
- NOW This: Armenian Genocide
- Britannica: Armenian Genocide
WWII Specific Resources
Documents, Presentations, and Websites:
Was Hitler a gambler? Presentation
Bite Size BBC
Road to War Overview
Road to War
Timeline of events related to the Holocaust from USHMM
Helpful Podcasts
Life in Hitler's Germany
Audio/Video:
Winston Churchill calls for Britain to Meet Nazi Threat - Audio from 1934
Winston Churchill SpeechesWatchmojo Review: Benito Mussolini
Mussolini's Propaganda
1922: Mussolini and the Fascists Take Over of Italy
Games:
Road to War Bitesize Interactive
Fling the Teacher: Road to WWII
Walk the Plank Game: Hitler and the origins of WWII
Key People and Terms
Click here to answer questions you have about the Holocaust from the Museum of Tolerance.
This is a great interactive site from History Channel. Click here!
Click here to read leaflets dropped on Japanese cities days before the atomic bomb was dropped.
Click here to read Truman's warning after the first atomic bomb was dropped.
Bataan Death March: Interviews
Understanding the treatment of Jews during the war
COOL: WWII Interactive from History Channel
Harry Truman's Diary and Papers
Videos:
WWII in HD Episode One
WWII in HD Final Episode (watched by 3rd period history, but not yet 4th period.)
America the Story of Us: WWII Episode
Watch Mojo Videos:
Other videos:
We We Fight Part 1 - American Propaganda
Disney - Anti-Nazi Propaganda
Truman Warning
Truman Audio: 2nd Warning on August 9th
BBC WorldWide: Truman's Ultimatum
BBC WorldWide: Dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima
BBC WorldWide: Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
The Path to Nazi Genocide Video from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Click here to answer questions you have about the Holocaust from the Museum of Tolerance.
This is a great interactive site from History Channel. Click here!
Click here to read leaflets dropped on Japanese cities days before the atomic bomb was dropped.
Click here to read Truman's warning after the first atomic bomb was dropped.
Bataan Death March: Interviews
Understanding the treatment of Jews during the war
COOL: WWII Interactive from History Channel
Harry Truman's Diary and Papers
Videos:
WWII in HD Episode One
WWII in HD Final Episode (watched by 3rd period history, but not yet 4th period.)
America the Story of Us: WWII Episode
Watch Mojo Videos:
- How did it begin?
- How did WWII end?
- Which countries fought?
- Nuclear Bombing of Japan
- Important Battles
- Tactics,Weapons, and the Holocaust
- WWII The Aftermath
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- America Enters WWII - 5 min
- D-Day - 2 min
- WWII Spy Strategy - 3 min
- Concentration Camp Liberation
- Battle of Iwo Jima 3 min
- Japanese Internment Camps in America - 3 min
- Atomic Bomb Ends WWII - 2:49
- Manhattan Project
- Coroner's Report: Atomic Bomb
- Kamikaze Pilots
- WWII in North Africa
- WWII Soldiers Come Home
- Einstein in WWII
- Hitler's Remains??? Hmmm...
- Nuremberg Trials
Other videos:
We We Fight Part 1 - American Propaganda
Disney - Anti-Nazi Propaganda
Truman Warning
Truman Audio: 2nd Warning on August 9th
BBC WorldWide: Truman's Ultimatum
BBC WorldWide: Dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima
BBC WorldWide: Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
The Path to Nazi Genocide Video from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Cold War Specific Resources
Helpful Websites
Games and Activities
Helpful Videos
General or Early Cold War related:
Korean War and 1950s America related:
Cuban Missile Crisis Related
Berlin Wall related:
1970s Detente related:
Challenges to Soviet Power and the Collapse of the Soviet Union:
Cold War Documentary - Complete Series
- BBC: Korean War
- Bite Size: Origins of the Cold War
- Bite Size: Germany After the War
- Bite Size: Cold War all
- Hall of Fame: Joseph Stalin
- Map: How was Germany divided?
- Berlin Blockade from PBS: Race for the Superbomb
- Sample Answer: What Caused the Berlin Blockade?
- Fidel Castro and Cuba - What kind of leader was he?
- Vietnam War Basic Overview from History Channel
Games and Activities
- Bitesize Activity: Developments of the Cold War 1948-61
- Bitesize Activity: Cuban Missile Crisis
- Bitesize: End of the Cold War (Hungarian Revolution, Czech Revolution, Solidarity, and Collapse of Soviet Union)
Helpful Videos
General or Early Cold War related:
- Part 1 of Cold War Documentary - very helpful review of most important concepts
- Part 2: Cold War Documentary
- Cold War Review in 10 minutes - Hip Hughes
- Stalin's Purges
- Joseph Stalin Declassified
- Chinese Cultural Revolution Article (with multiple videos)
Korean War and 1950s America related:
Cuban Missile Crisis Related
- Cuban Missile Crisis Song & Picture Book
- Castro and the Cuban Revolution
- Castro Urges Nuclear Attack on US
Berlin Wall related:
1970s Detente related:
Challenges to Soviet Power and the Collapse of the Soviet Union:
- Strongly Recommended: NowThis "Fall of the Soviet Union"
- Hungarian Revolutions as Depicted in Newsreels
- Solidarity clip
- Glasnost and Perestroika - very helpful
- Collapse of the Soviet Union
- Gorbachev talks about how he "failed the Soviet Union"
Cold War Documentary - Complete Series