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US Government Publishing Office

U.s. Government Publishing Office: Constitution of the United States of America: 16th Amendment Income Tax [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this text of the 16th Amendment, followed by the history of the Amendment and an analysis. (PDF)
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History/college History: United States Enters World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides a video for Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. This section discusses America's entry into World War I. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ap Us History/college History Unit: Period 7: 1890 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
The study resource from Khan Academy provides a video lesson about the Zimmerman Telegram: Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Fourteen Points and the Versailles Treaty [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
President Woodrow Wilson, in his hope that World War I was the war to end all wars, issued his Fourteen Points almost one year before the end of the war as a bluepoint to guarantee peace across the world. Read a summary of the points and...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: United States Enters World War I

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of America's entry into WWI and President Woodrow Wilson's negotiations with Germany to facilitate an end to the war.
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Other

West Virginia Archives and History: Newton Diehl Baker

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description and picture of Newton Diehl Baker, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War during World War I. Included are hyperlinks to additional primary source materials that give insight into Baker as a man.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Autographed Airmail Envelope

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the story of the first regularly scheduled airmail service. See how Woodrow Wilson's Postmaster General, Arthur Burleson, who purchased the first airmail stamp, arranged for the Red Cross to benefit from that stamp. Included are...
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US Department of Justice

Office of the Attorney General: James Mc Reynolds

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of James Clark McReynolds, served as Attorney General in Theodore Roosevelt's presidency as well as Woodrow Wilson.
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Other

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:baker, Newton Diehl

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief biography of Newton Diehl Baker, activist mayor of Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson's secretary of War during World War I.
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The History Cat

The History Cat: Treaty of Versailles: Peace Returns

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what happened at the end of World War I - the celebrations and the unnecessary final battles - as the Big Four (France, Britain, the United States, and Italy) sat down to begin negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles....
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Digital History

Digital History: America Goes to War [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
President Woodrow Wilson tried to maintain American neutrality in World War I. Find out why he decided that the U.S. needed to join the war and read a portion of his message to Congress asking for a declaration of war against Germany....
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PBS

American Experience: Espionage and Sedition Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
As progressive a president as Woodrow Wilson was, when the U.S. joined World War I, he signed legislation that made it a crime to criticize the government. Read about the espionage and sedition acts that were passed and how they were...
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US Department of Labor

U.s. Department of Labor: William B. Wilson

For Students 9th - 10th
The U.S. Department of Labor provides a portrait and a biography of the man who served as Wilson's Secretary of Labor from 1913-1921. William B. Wilson is given a brief biographical sketch, with good factual information being provided.
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Harp Week

Presidential Electons: 1912 Wilson v. Roosevelt v. Taft: Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
The presidential elections in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were filled with drama from third parties, to a once defeated president running again and being elected, to a former president changing parties and running again. The...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Conversations With Kim Il Sung

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of primary source documents assembles a record of Kim Il Sung's conversations with foreign allies and other outsiders from 1949 through 1986, providing insights into DPRK foreign policy and domestic politics from North...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Cuban Foreign Relations

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents on Cuban's international relations, focusing on its relationship with the Soviet Union, China, and the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents concerning the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962-a major confrontation that brought the Soviet Union and the United States close to war over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: East German Uprising

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents related to the East German uprising of June 1953.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Geneva Conference of 1954

For Students 9th - 10th
The Geneva Conference of 1954 was an international meeting in Switzerland involving the Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, China and the Viet Minh. The powers involved attempted to negotiate a settlement to end...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Inter Korean Competition, 61 70

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of documents tracks inter-Korean relations from the time of the Park Chung Hee coup in 1961 through the opening of the inter-Korean dialogue in 1970.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Inter Korean Dialogue, 1977 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents obtained from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Romanian archives on efforts to revive the inter-Korean dialogue and to begin a trilateral dialogue between the U.S., South Korea, and North...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Inter Korean Relations After the War

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection presents documents on inter-Korean relations from the end of the Korean War through the Park Chung Hee military coup.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Interkit, 1966 1987

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents surrounding the Interkit Story. These documents give insight into policy coordination and national interests in the Soviet Bloc in the second half of the Cold War.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Nikita Khrushchev Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
Documents containing the thoughts and opinions of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Most are from Russian archives, along with a few Bulgarian and Romanian documents. The collection includes comments on Stalin, the post-Stalin Soviet...

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