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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Conquering World Hunger

For Students 9th - 10th
Exhibit portrays how Harry Truman with the help of Herbert Hoover attempted to conquer the food problem in Europe after World War II.
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Palomar Community College District

Study Guide: Movements in Twentieth Century Art After World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers a study guide on the movements in twentieth-century art after World War II, including abstract expressionism, op art, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art, performance art, photorealism, earth art, neo-expressionism,...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Challenges of Making Peace: The Great War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this interactive lesson, students watch videos from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: The Great War, read primary source documents and video transcripts, and analyze data to better understand how and why the U.S. and European leaders differed in...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Writing in u.s. History: Shaping the Postwar World

For Students 9th - 10th
Consider how U.S. foreign policy changed in the aftermath of WWII, and analyze the philosophical, geopolitical, and economic factors that influenced these changes. In this interactive lesson from WGBH, students develop a written argument...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
View videos, photograph, and renderings of American presidents and their foreign counterparts in this image-rich examination of the post-World War II environment and the cold war that followed it. Includes a review of key foreign-policy...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Cold War Erupts

For Students 5th - 8th
World War II ended in 1945 and the Cold War began immediately. Read about the mistrust Western Europe and the United States felt towards the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin. Learn how the Soviets expanded their realm of influence and...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Shifting Poland

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial essay portrays the extensive territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II and its new role in Europe.
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PBS

Billy Wilder: Film Noir Inventor and Genius

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is a lesson plan focused on post-World War II America and the film making career of Billy Wilder. Details on the Film Noir genre and its reflection of shifting American values. Click to a biography and timeline of Billy...
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Mount Holyoke College

Post War Ii Years

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictures of the post-war years in Germany. Some of the pictures are clickable which give you more information on what Germany was like after the war.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1945 1980: Start of the Cold War the Yalta Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the end of World War II contributed to the rise of the Cold War.
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Other

Dirksen Congressional Center: Everett M. Dirksen Abroad, 1945: The Trip

For Students 9th - 10th
The Dirksen Congressional Center created a website focused on Everett Dirksen's travels for the House Committee on Appropriations in 1945. Details the extent of this trip with a list of places traveled, people he met with, and pictures....
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: War and Postwar Years

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay on the renewed political and millitary alliance between the U.S. and the Dutch post World War II.
Article
BBC

Bbc News: On This Day: December 1,1943: Allies United After Tehran Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of what transpired at the Tehran Conference when the Allied leaders met to plot further World War II strategy and postwar issues. Read portions of the declaration made at the end of the conference, and, perhaps equally...
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Columbia University

Columbia University: Structural Realism After the Cold War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
In his article "Structural Realism after the Cold War", Kenneth N. Waltz examines the growth of liberal democracies following World War II and the Cold War and this growth's effects on nation-building in the twentieth century. (37 pages)
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Other

Nfa: A Fight to the Finish; u.s. And Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
These scripts (the first of two drafts) describe the events in World War II in the Pacific Theater.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Postwar Tension and Triumph

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Comprehensive teaching unit on tensions of the Cold War era: conflicts between domestic prosperity and unfulfilled expectations, ideals of conformity and individualism. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Eisenhower National Historic Site: Military Career

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibition details aspects of Eisenhower's military career, beginning with his days as a West Point cadet. Covers his campaigns in North Africa and Italy, his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander, the Normandy invasion, and his...
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Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Tehran Conference: Tripartite Meeting

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tehran Conference between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin took place between November 28 and December 1, 1943. Read the notes of the of the dinner meeting that took place on November 29, which primarily dealt...
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Course Overview: Introduction to Contemporary Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an introduction to contemporary literature which is defined as literature written after WW II that deals with modern issues. It also focuses on writing formal essays using MLA formatting and avoiding "accidental plagiarism."
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 8 May 1945 Collapse and New Beginning

For Students 9th - 10th
The end of the war and the early post-war period of 1945/46 is reflected in these posters shown in an imformative photographic exhibit.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Yalta Conference [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a very extensive look at the Yalta Conference. Find the problems addressed at the conference, the enumerated possible solutions, the positions each of the Big Three leaders held, and the actual results of the conference. Included...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit examines poetry of the postmodernism period, focusing on the Beat Movement, Black Arts Movement, feminism, and other related movements and periods in recent literary history. An extensive list of authors, time line, video, and...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Latino Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Section overview on the Latino Movement in which Hispanic Americans pushed for civil rights in post World War II America.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Native American Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the Native American push for Civil Rights in a post World War II America.

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