Welcome to the Queensbury Union Free School District

CLASSROOM RESOURCES:

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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Ghandi

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Study Tools (flipcards, crossword...)

http://www.classzone.com/books/ca05_1877/index.cfm

DECADE LINKS:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century

MUSIC LINKS:

Music by decades:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/music-3.html

The Story of Pop and Protest: History of the world's best protest songs/movements

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/getupstandup/flash.html

Protest Songs- Slavery-Today:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/workers.html

FAMOUS TRIALS THROUGOUT HISTORY:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm

TERRORISM:

HISTORY OF TERRORISM:

http://www.simplytaty.com/broadenpages/terrorism.htm

AMERICA'S WAR ON TERROR:

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html#airlines

CNN SPECIAL: WAR ON TERROR:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/

9/11:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11%2C_2001_Terrorist_Attack

http://www.zonalatina.com/Zldata248.htm

http://www.fastload.org/9-/9-11.html

LIST OF WORLD'S WORST DICTATORS: 2006

http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_01-22-2006/Dictators

Wars and Genocides of the 20th Century:

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html

POLITICS:

George W. Bush

http://www.politics1.com/bush.htm

REPUBLICAN PARTY:

http://www.rnc.org/

DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

http://www.democrats.org/

THE GREEN PARTY:

http://www.gp.org/

COMMUNIST PARTY:

http://www.cpusa.org/

THE 1970's:

Iran Hostage Crisis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/documents/hostages.phtml

Pictures of Iran Hostage Crisis:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/04/middle_east_iran_hostage_crisis/html/1.stm

Camp David Accord:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords

Watergate Scandal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate

Political Cartoons of the 1970's:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/crook.html

Women's Rights Movement:

http://www.worldbook.com/features/whm/html/whm004.html

VIETNAM WAR :

Vietnam War:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war

http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/vietnamwar/

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/vietnam.htm

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/

http://vietnam.vassar.edu/overview.html

http://www.historycentral.com/vietnam/events.html

Johnson and Escalation:

http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Viet2.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/36_l_johnson/l_johnson_foreign.html

Chemicals/Herbicides:

http://www.newint.org/issue323/petrified.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNchemical.htm

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/08/nachtwey_photoessay200608?slide=2#globalNav (Great Photos!!!)

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0401/pjg_thumbs.html (Great Photos)

http://www.bhopal.net/oldsite/oldwebsite/agentorange.html (Agent orange health and environmental effects)

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Environment/Agent_Orange.html (Agent Orange Effects)

Guerilla Warfare:

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/guerrilla/index.html

http://www.angelfire.com/hero2/vietcong/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu_Chi_Tunnels

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/1831

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles2002/20020611.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare

http://www.grunt.com/scuttlebutt/corps-stories/vietnam/north.asp

http://www.travelworldmagazine.com/contributors/detail.php?ArticleID=202

Ho Chi Minh Trail:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNhotrial.htm

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1875.html

http://www.vietquoc.com/na110400.htm

The VietCong:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,836878,00.html

http://www.travelworldmagazine.com/contributors/detail.php?ArticleID=202

Photographs of the Vietnam War:

http://www.nam-vet.net/photocangedwar.html

http://www.vietnampix.com/

http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexvietnam.htm

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/0004/vietnam.gallery/frameset.exclude.html

http://www.vietnampix.com/fire5.htm

Tet Offensive:

http://www.marxist.com/vietnam/tet-offensive-part-one.htm

http://members.aol.com/Gman1025/vietnam.html

http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Viet2.html

http://www.vietnamwar.com/tetoffensive.htm

http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/feat-TET.shtml

http://www.museum.state.sc.us/exhibits/tet_vietnam.aspx

http://vietnam.vassar.edu/overview.html

http://www.warbirdforum.com/media.htm (Media coverage after Tet Offensive)

Search and Destroy Missions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search-and-destroy

http://rwor.org/a/027/vietnam-destroy-village.htm

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Asia/Vietnam_War_US_Lost.html

http://www.vietnamwar.com/mylai.htm

My Lai Massacre:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html

Lessons From Vietnam:

http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/35-34499.aspx

http://san.beck.org/GPJ26-VietnamWar.html

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/04/b619113.html

http://michelf.com/weblog/2006/winning-against-guerilla-warfare/

The Media and The War:

http://members.aol.com/Gman1025/vietnam.html

http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Viet2.html

http://www.warbirdforum.com/media.htm

Vietnam Draft / Lottery:

http://www.sss.gov/lotter1.htm

http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/conscientious-objection/Vietnam-war-resisters.htm

http://www.africanamericans.com/MilitaryVietnamWar.htm (African Americans)

http://www.glynn.k12.ga.us/BHS/Juniorprojects/Hopkins/mikelm550/

http://glbthistory.org/OutranksWeb/Vietnam/Vietnam.htm

Vietnam War Potests/Unrest at Home:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_U.S._involvement_in_the_Vietnam_War

http://ohoh.essortment.com/vietnamwarprot_rlcz.htm

http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/index.htm

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1888.html

http://www.newcommave.com/vassallo1

http://www.stopallwars.com/custom.html

http://www.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietnam/ThreeImages/brady.html (Effects of Pictures/Media on Protest Movement)

http://faculty.smu.edu/dsimon/Change-Viet2.html

http://www.museum.state.sc.us/exhibits/tet_vietnam.aspx

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/antiwar.html

http://vietnam.vassar.edu/overview.html

http://www.jwsrockgarden.com/jw02vvaw.htm (Anti War Music)

Nixon and Vietnam:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=619

http://vietnam.vassar.edu/overview.html

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1888.html

http://www.vietnamwar.com/politicalprotests.htm (Protesting Nixon)

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/541/541_08_FallSaigon.shtml (Look towards bottom of page "Why war drags on")

Kent State Shootings:

http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/ohio.htm

Fall of South Vietnam:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon

http://archives.cbc.ca/society/immigration/clips/524-2705/ (Refugees/clip)

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1888.html

http://marianne_brems.tripod.com/Fall/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_people

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article771

Vietnam Veterans:

http://www.capveterans.com/caprd_004.htm (Who are the Vietnam Veterans?)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21678030 (Homelessness)

http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2007/03/12/Opinion/Veteran.Treatment.Echoes.Vietnam.War.Era-2772253.shtml

http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/54989/

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1888.html

http://www.vetsoutreach.com/ptsd-symptoms.html (Alcoholism/Drugs/Sleep Disorders)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n8_v13/ai_19199585 (Alcoholism)

http://www.vietnow.com/pagesptsd/ptsdmakingsense.htm (Stress/Failed Marriages/Treatment Returning Home)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED81438F931A35755C0A96E948260 (Stress Disorders)

Reflections/Lessons from Vietnam:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7678284/

http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/html3/vet.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/12/AR2006111201065_2.html (US helps clean up Vietnam)

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-1/541/541_08_FallSaigon.shtml (look at bottom of page)

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=95 (trust in Government)

Speeches from the 1960's:

http://www.authentichistory.com/audio/1960s/1960s_speeches_01.html

Posters and Tickets From the 1960's:

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/1960s/music/1960s_music_01.html

THE CIVIL RIGHT'S MOVEMENT:

Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement:

http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html

The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Rights_Movement_%281955-1968%29

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65/

Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement:

http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/129/80.html

Civil Rights Photos:

http://www.crmvet.org/images/imghome.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/us/20civil.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/20/us/20080620CIVIL_index.html

Brown v. Board of Education:

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html

Rosa Parks Profile:

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1

Greensboro Sit Ins:

http://www.sitins.com/

Martin Luther King Jr.(Bio,Qoutes, "I Have a Dream Speech):

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mlkjrday1.html

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm

Black Panthers:

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/004.html

Malcolm X Research Site:

http://www.brothermalcolm.net/

KKK:

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0828331.html

AMERICAN LIFE IN THE 1950's:

Family Life:

http://www.hcstrand.com/Pics/First%20Year/Fifties.html

Beyond The Picket Fence: Domesticity in the 50's

http://www.history.ilstu.edu/nhp/civilization/Site/cold_war_shelter.html

How Should Women Act in the 1950's? (Excerpt from 1950's home economics text)

http://www.qis.net/~jimjr/wom53.htm

COLD WAR:

List of Countries With Nuclear Weapons, Stockpile Info:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/the.bomb/deployment/

WW II -1990's:

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html

OVERVIEW:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

http://www.coldwar.org/

Cold War: The Arm's Race

http://www.vce.com/coldwar.html

The Space Race

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/index.html

SPUTNIK'S CHANGE ON AMERICA:

http://ussrsputnik.homestead.com/

Music About the Atomic Bomb:

http://www.authentichistory.com/audio/1950s/atomic_music_01.html

KOREAN WAR:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/coldwar/korea_hickey_01.shtml

Hollywood Blacklist During Cold War:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html

WW II:

OVERVIEW:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

WW II Links: (Covers a variety of topics)

http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/WWII.html#USWarCrimes

http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/social/wwii.htmlrdny.org/Disciplines/wwii.htm

HOLOCAUST:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust

Holocaust Survivor Stories/Pictures

http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/

Holocaust Links

http://ddickerson.igc.org/holocaust.html

PEARL HARBOR:

Pictures of Pearl Harbor Attack:

http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/pearlharbor/

WAR PROPAGANDA:

What is Propaganda?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda

http://www.propagandacritic.com/

Propaganda Techniques: Trry incorporating some of these into your posters:

http://www.usfca.edu/classes/AuthEd/Propaganda/techniques.html

WW II Propaganda Posters

http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_home.html

http://www.pma.edmonton.ab.ca/vexhibit/warpost/english/posters.htm

Dr. Seuss War Cartoons

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/index.htm

WW II Propaganda Poster/Cartoon Links

http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm

Bugs Bunny Cartoon Clips:

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/ww2/toons/ww2toons01.html

ATOMIC BOMB:

http://www.doug-long.com/

http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Twentieth_Century/Wars_and_Conflicts/World_War_II/Atomic/ http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/atomic.htm

http://www.theenolagay.com/study.html

THE GREAT DEPRESSION:

OVERVIEW OF THE NEW DEAL:

http://www.authentichistory.com/ed/1930s/new_deal_background.html

THE GREAT DEPRESSION: A DECADE OF HARDSHIP

http://www.museum.siu.edu/university_museum/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais/index.htm

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyindexdepression.htm

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/depression/

COMPLETE OVERVIEW OF THE THIRTIES

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html

LINKS TO GREAT DEPRESSION

http://www.42explore.com/depresn.htm

POLITICAL CARTOONS- FDR and COUTPACKING:

http://newdeal.feri.org/court/toons01.htm

DUST BOWL SONGS:

http://www.authentichistory.com/audio/1930s/dust_bowl/1930s_dustbowl_01.html

THE ROARING TWENTIES:

The 1920's

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade20.html

GENERAL 1920's Sites:

http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htmog Twenties

http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1920.htm

http://imet.csus.edu/imet2/herzj/websites/fashion/gallerypages/1920.html

WOMEN in the 1920's:

http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html

http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa022201a.htm

http://www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/

1920's SLANG:

http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm

Prohibition

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/prohib/prohib.html

HARLEM RENAISSANCE:

http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html

http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html

KKK:

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0828331.html

WORLD WAR I:

OVERVIEW:

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/maps/

Trench Warfare:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrench.htm

Life in the trenches:

http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm

Trench Warfare Game:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/trenchwarfare.shtml

PROGRESSIVE ERA:

http://www.westirondequoit.org/ihs/library/prog2.htm

CHILD LABOR LINKS:

CHILD LABOR VIDEO CLIPS:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/activities/index.asp?article=watch

Child Labor in the 19 th Century

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/98/labor/resource.html

Child Labor Photographs

hine_photographs

CHILD LABOR TODAY:

www.responsibleshopper.org

www.sweatshops.org

http://www.hrw.org/children/labor.htm

http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/0620-01.htm

http://www.nlcnet.org/

http://www.osjspm.org/sweatshp.htm http://www.behindthelabel.org/

http://www.stopchildlabor.org/

http://www.anti-slaverysociety.org/

http://www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/bclab.htm

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:

Songs, cartoons, Poems From the Labor Movement:

http://laborarts.org/exhibits/iww/title.cfm

Labor Songs:

http://laborarts.org/exhibits/laborsings/

The 19th CENTURY:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/19thcentury.html

Rise of Industrial America

http://www.42explore2.com/industrial.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

IMMIGRATION LINKS:

reasons, methods of arrival, who were the immigrants, where did they settle, opportunities, treatment by Americans

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

immigration: an overview

http://193.170.42.81/cn/vs/history/projects/euimmigrants.htm

length of trip, where they settled, how many came

http://www.blueladder.com/education/ushistunit10notes1.html

German immigration

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USA1800.htm

http://www-lib.iupui.edu/kade/nameword/context.html

Italian Immigration

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US2/PAPS/db-italy.html

Greek Immigration

http://www.chianfed.org/index.html?issues/doulis_immigration.html

Swedish Immigration

http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/swedish_migration.html

http://www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm

RECONSTRUCTION:

WHAT IS JIM CROW?

http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/what.htm

A Century of Segregation:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/segregation.html