Transforming Education
Social Awareness Strategies
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Transforming Education
Self-Efficacy Strategies
Scholars with high levels of self-efficacy perform better in school. Instructors review a list of strategies for enhancing self-efficacy skills. They discover how to teach learners to appropriately define success, celebrate progress, and...
Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Strategies
Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War
This Mount Holyoke college site provides the text of Douglas J. Macdonald's "Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War: Challenging Realism, Refuting Revisionism."
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Cia Internal Memorandum About Strike on Cuba
The memo dated January 4, 1961, outlines the Bay of Pigs planned invasion, in great detail.
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Relations With Japan 1938 1940
This publication from the U.S. Department of State lays out the attempts the United States made between 1938 and 1940 to influence the behavior of Japan through "moral embargoes" and eventually a complete embargo of all strategic...
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: The Open Door Note, 1899
Here is the note submitted by Secretary of State John Hay in September, 1899, which outlined the United States' Open Door policy toward China.
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: William Howard Taft: Dollar Diplomacy
President Taft's 1912 comments on his foreign policy that substituted "dollars for bullets."
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Wilson's Address to Congress: The Tampico Affair
Read the full text of Wilson's 1914 address to Congress regarding the Tampico Affair in Mexico.
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Nsc 68: United States Objectives for National Security
Primary source document of the National Security Council Document 68. (NSC-68)
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal of Indians
Here, read the text to President Jackson's "First Annual Message to Congress, 8 December 1830," in which Jackson argues for the removal of Native Americans.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: International Relations of East Asia
Pre-Cold War through the events of September 11, 2001, delve into the international relationships of the powers that make up East Asia. Utilize these suggestions of readings and possible assignments or discussion starters.
Other
Brazil Ministry of External Relations
Wonderful resource developed by the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Covers topics such as foreign policy, political groups, international relations, and the structure and services of the ministry. Also gives a virtual tour and provides...
Country Studies US
Country Studies: Foreign Economic Relations
Exports were the key to South Korea's industrial expansion. Until 1986 the value of imports was greater than exports. This situation was reversed, however, in 1986 when South Korea registered a favorable balance of trade of US$4.2...
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: Memorandum of Discussion: January 28, 1961
The text of a conversation between President Kennedy and his advisors concerning the "prospects for success" of an American plan to send American-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba.
Mount Holyoke College
International Relations: American Protest Over the Sinking of the Lusitania
Text of a statement by William Jennings Bryan protesting the sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats.
Other
Falkland Islands Government
The official portal of the Falkland Islands government, this site contains well-organized information. Use the pull-down menus at the top to access data on the government, international relations, economy, Falklands life and the...
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Cuban Foreign Relations
Documents on Cuban's international relations, focusing on its relationship with the Soviet Union, China, and the United States.
Read Works
Read Works: Internal Security Act of 1950
[Free Registration/Login Required] This ReadWorks passage provides a brief history of the International Security Act of 1950. A paired passage, a passage with related content, and a questions sheet are available to help students build...
China State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group
China: Foreign Relations
An excellent site from China.org.cn for information on China's foreign relations. Site is broken into the following sections: contents, foreign policy, principles, development of foreign relations, and foreign affairs.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Life in Japanese American Internment Camp
Information about life in an internment camp. Includes related activities and links to books and other websites on Japanese American internment.
Other
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada: Foreign Policy
An extensive site providing information on Canada's role in the world.
Other
International Boundary Commission
International Boundary Commission website provides pictures and information on its history, purpose and function as a bi-national organization. Under the 1960 International Boundary Commission Act, the Commission's work is described as...