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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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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Non Aligned Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of primary source documents concerning the Non-Aligned Movement, also referred to as NAM. This anti-colonial movement was spearheaded by several conferences and summits, the first held in Bandung in 1955. The...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: North Korea & American Radical Left

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of documents on North Korea's ties to groups associated with the American radical left, including the Black Panther Party, in the 1960s and 1970s. The documents were obtained from the personal papers of Eldridge Cleaver, a...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: North Korea August 1956 Plenum Incident

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of documents examines the post-Korean War disputes and debates within the Korean Workers' Party which culminated in the 1956 August Plenum.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: North Korea's First Five Year Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of declassified documents from Russian, Polish, Chinese, and East German archives on North Korea's Chollima Movement and First Five-Year Plan (1957-1961).
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: North Korean Military Adventurism

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of documents provides a historical record of North Korea's brinkmanship and military-diplomatic campaigns since 1968, including the seizure of the USS Pueblo, attempted assassinations of President Park Chung Hee, and the...
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Demise of Detente in Korea, 1973 1975

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of documents about the end of the inter-Korean dialogue, and the demise of detente on the Korean Peninsula after the signing of the historic July 4th, 1972, Joint Communique.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Horn of Africa Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents related to the conflict between Somalia and Ethiopia in the late 1970s (also known as the 1977-1978 Ogaden War or the Ethiopian-Somali Conflict).
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Indochinese War

For Students 9th - 10th
The First Indochina War began as a rebellion by Vit Minh forces against the French colonial government. This collection mainly focuses on the end of the conflict in 1954.
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Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Woodrow Wilson Center: Digital Archive: Intelligence Operations in the Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of primary source documents that discuss intelligence issues during the Cold War. The documents come from archives in many different Soviet bloc countries. They are mainly decision memorandums, descriptions, agreements, and...
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Election of 1912

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource that provides detailed electoral data for the presidential election of 1912 won by Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson.
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American Presidency Project

American Presidency Project: Election of 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
Online resource that provides detailed electoral data for the presidential election of 1916 won by Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Era of Expansion and Reform

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource, a speech by Woodrow Wilson to Congress on April 8, 1913, gives a great review of how the United States transformed from from a rural country to an urban one. It includes a review of industrialization, new inventions,...
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Tom Richey

Tom Richey: World War I for u.s. History

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow will explore the reasons the United States joined into fighting during World War I. Explore the role Woodrow Wilson had during the war, the Treaty of Versailles, and the creation of the League of Nations.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Biographical Directory of the u.s. Congress: Wilson, William Bauchop

For Students 9th - 10th
This very brief biography gives a look at the life, especially his life in politics, of William Bauchop Wilson, Secretary of Labor in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: American Presidency: Woodrow Wilson

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biographical sketch of America's twenty-eighth president includes background information on the era in which he served and linked-to objects from the Smithsonian's collections that help define the man and his presidency.
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Hall of the Secretaries of State: Bainbridge Colby

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the vital statistics of Bainbridge Colby, who served as Secretary of State under Wilson from 1920-1921.

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