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Curated OER

Image From D Day: Beachhead

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From Voices of D Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

D Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
Primary
Other

D Day at Omaha Beach Normandy, France

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource includes a letter written by an Allied soldier shortly before landing at Normandy. This is an invaluable primary source document.
Lesson Plan
Choices Program, Brown University

Choices: Teaching With the News: Iraq: The Challenge of Securing the Peace

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Interactive two-day lesson plan that engages students in consideration of divergent policy alternatives concerning how the situation in Iraq should be handled, who should be in charge, and what the goals should be.
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Curated OER

D Day Photograph

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains an impressive collection of features and links on the topic of D-Day. Find excerpts from books, first-hand accounts, and links to other interesting sites.
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Curated OER

Artillery Positions Set Up Soon After Landing

For Students 9th - 10th
The events of D-Day are described by an American soldier. Article also includes a video interview with the soldier.
Website
American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: Foreign Correspondent, 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource reviews an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Foreign Correspondent.
Article
A&E Television

History.com: Key Moments in the Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cuban Missile Crisis was among the scariest events of the Cold War. The 13-day showdown brought the world's two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war. hese are the steps that brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink...
Article
Other

The Mercury Theatre on the Air

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to many of the original Mercury Theatre of the Air broadcasts, with Orsen Welles, John Houseman, Agnes Moorehead and others. Also on the site you can find broadcasts of many of the programs from Campbell Playhouse, which is what...
Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Normandy, 1944:omaha Beach

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides extensive information on the invasion of Omaha Beach.
Handout
US Department of State

Info Usa: Foreign Trade and Global Economic Policies

For Students 9th - 10th
U.S. foreign trade and global economic policies have changed direction dramatically during the more than two centuries that the United States has been a country. In the early days of the nation's history, government and business mostly...