Department of Defense
Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 6: Becoming a Modern Nation
This extensive learning module examines the role of large-scale industrialization, urbanization, and mass migrations in creating new demands on government and social organizations to design reforms, and looks at the global and domestic...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 8: An Age of Confidence and Anxiety
This extensive learning module examines the United States' response to the global uncertainty and instability that followed World War II and the ways that marginalized groups challenged discrimination, and the counter-responses to their...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: Us in Wwi: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson
Looks at Woodrow Wilson's actions and accomplishments as president from 1913-1921. Discusses his efforts to regulate the economy, fight corruption in business, and improve societal conditions. He also supported segregationist policies in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The Us in Wwi: The League of Nations
Discusses the background to establishing the League of Nations, its role in facilitating peace negotiations, and why it ultimately failed to prevent World War II. Explains why the United States never joined it and how the United Nations...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1754 1800: Constitution
A quick comprehension check over the establishment of the Constitution of the United States.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: The United States in World War I
World War I was the "war to end all wars." It had major consequences on Americans both at home and abroad.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap European: World War Ii
AP European History learning module on World War II traces the beginnings of the war from a dissillusioned Europe through the course of the war. Module includes assignments, enrichment activities, downloads, maps and assessment for...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: Introduction to the Age of Empire
Discusses the transition of the United States in the late 19th century from an isolationist country into an imperial power with colonies of its own and the reasons for this abrupt change in foreign policy. Includes questions for students...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1890 1945: The Age of Empire: Spanish American War
Discusses the causes, events, and consequences of the Spanish-American War and how the United States acquired several territories in the aftermath. Includes questions for students at end.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Fdr and World War Ii
After leading the United States through nearly a decade of Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took on the role of Commander-in-Chief when the United States entered the Second World War.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Annexing Texas
Quickly following Texan independence, the United States admitted Texas into the republic as a slave state.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1865 1898: Labor Battles in the Gilded Age
As the United States became a major industrial power, conflict between workers and factory owners intensified. Read about the Homestead Strike and the Pullman Strike, two of the most famous labor battles in American history.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: September 11th
An overview of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that resulted in the United States' declaration of a Global War on Terror.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: The Gulf War
Learn about how the United States led a UN coalition to liberate Kuwait from Iraq in 1991.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: Period 9: 1980 Present: The Iran Contra Affair
Learn how Reagan's administration was embroiled in scandal when it came to light that the United States had sold weapons to Iran and funneled the money to Nicaraguan rebels.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Society in Transition
A quick comprehension check about society in transition in the United States during the years 1945-1980.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Richard Nixon as President
Learn about Nixon's presidency, including his strategy to get the United States out of the Vietnam War, his foreign policy maneuvers with China and the Soviet Union, and his fall from grace due to the Watergate scandal.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Read about the tense 1962 standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union that nearly resulted in nuclear war.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Vietnam War
Learn about the war that enmeshed the United States in a battle against communism in Southeast Asia for more than twenty years.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Learn about the Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation in the United States.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement
Learn about the origins, strategies, and unfinished business of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Culture From 1945 to 1960
A quick comprehension check over events involving the culture in the United States from 1945 to 1960.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1890 1945: Postwar Diplomacy
A quick comprehension check over postwar diplomacy in the United States after WWII.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: The Baby Boom
Find out why there were so many babies born in the United States after World War II.