This lesson examines the Cold War and the dangers and promises
of the Atomic Age. Izzy arrives in Seattle and learns about her new
city's place in the global economy.
What was the Cold War and how did it affect the countries
involved?
CNN: The Cold War
Cold War Policies
1945-1991
The Soviet
Union and the United States
Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's
Bombmaker
Fast Attacks and
Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War
Space Race
Exhibition
Sputnik
The
Apollo Manned Space Program
Apollo
11
Apollo
11 30th Anniversary
NASA Human Space Flight
International Space Station,
Space Shuttle, Space
History (and more)
Dateline Moon: The Media and the Space Race
What do you know about the fight for equal rights for all
Americans?
Key
Events in the American Civil Rights Movement
We Shall
Overcome: Historic Places from the Civil Rights Movement
Brown vs. Board of Education National
Historic Site
A Huey B. Newton Story
Atlanta: A Race
Riot
The Black
Panther Party
The Million
Man March
Million Man March Photo Documentary
African
American Population Statistics
United Farm Workers History
La Causa: History of the
United Farm Workers Union
Living the Legacy: The Women's Rights
Movement 1848-1998
History of Women in America
A Clickable
Gallery of Women's Achievements in the 20th Century (from
the NASA website)
Women
Pioneers
The
Disability Rights Movement
How have some other major events of the past 50 years
affected you or the people you know?
Remembering the Korean War
The Wars for Vietnam: 1945-1975
Vietnam Online
The Vietnam Veteran's
Memorial
Radical Times: The Antiwar
Movement of the 1960's
Psychedelic
60's: Literary Tradition and Social Change
Los Angeles: A
City in Stress (1965 and 1992 riots)>
Earth Day History
Earth Trends (environmental
information)
The Atomic Archive
Meltdown at Three Mile Island
Great Day in Harlem
The Whole World Was
Watching: an oral history of 1968
A Visual Journey
through the 60's
Information Age: People,
Information and Technology
Hobbes' Internet
Timeline
History of Internet
and WWW
Technology at Home
The Video Game
Revolution
HIV/AIDS
Child
Rights
Some Effects of
Global Warming on Agriculture
EPA Global Warming Site
The Gulf War
War Stories (journalists
report on wars since WWII)
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