HISTORY, SOCIAL STUDIES
& GEOGRAPHY

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  20^th CENTURY HISTORY & SOCIAL STUDIES

  NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE

1. 20th Century History - Yahoo
2. Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
3. Chico High School Library: 20^th Century History By the Decades
4. World War I & II, the Depression, the Cold War & Korea, Vietnam, migration & immigration sources
5. Canada - Events: 1901-1938 (pictures)
6. The Avalon Project : Monroe Doctrine; December 2 1823
7. Spanish-American War
8. Twentieth Century United States: Texts and documents
9. The American Open Door Policy - as announced by John Hay in 1899. Issue from U.S. Department of State.
   
10. History Channel hotlist: 20^th century U.S. history
11. Time Magazine : The Past Men of the Year
12. Margie's 1920's, 1930's and 1940's Web Links
13. New York Tenement Life In The 30's and 40's
14. Retro magazine
15. Media History Timeline: 20^th Century
16. Private eyes (Audio broadcasts from popular private investigator radio programs)
17. Wall of Fame 1914 - Present (Year-by-year listing of the shows that appeared at the Shubert Theatre)
18. History of Jazz
19. Bigbands Database
20. Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Architecture and design 1930 - 1955, Photographs)
21. Pulp Fiction Central
22. Jackie Robinson and other baseball highlights, 1860's-1960's

  1900 - 1914: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

1. Turn of the century Immigration (in Canada)
2. The Great Boom
3. Age of Hope - The People's Century: PBS online companion
4. Early Motion Pictures, 1897 - 1920
5. North Carolina First Flight Centennial Commission
6. Wright Brothers National Memorial (National Parks service)
7. Ontario town life (1840-1890) - Canadian Museum of Civilization

  WORLD WAR 1: 1914-1918

1. Courage Remembered - The World Wars through Canadian eyes
2. The Great War: Canada's contribution
3. Canadian Great War Homepage
4. Canadian Air Aces and Heroes
5. Jack Turner's War
6. World War 1
7. World War I - Yahoo
8. First World War.com - A multimedia history of World War One
9. World War 1 - Trenches on the Web
10. PBS Online - The Great War
11. The Great War 1914-1918
12. A Brief Chronology of Major Events in the Great War
13. FirstWorldWar.com
14. First World War, July-August 1918, around Soissons, France
15. Internment of Ukrainians in Canada 1914-1920
16. Wartime Propaganda: World War I
17. The World War I Document Archive
18. The Versailles Treaty - June 28, 1919
19. Treaty of Versailles Web Sites
20. League of Nations
21. The Covenant of the League of Nations - including amendments of 1924
    
22. Why Canada Was in the War
23. Remembrance Day Links

  THE TWENTIES

1. The Winnipeg General Strike - 1919
2. The Ottawa Journal, September 9, 1919
3. Images: Between World Wars
4. Canadian Pacific Railway advertisement
5. Stelco advertisement ("Purchase the Products of Canadian Mills")
6. Quebec Railway, Light, Heat and Power Co, Ltd. advertisement ("Cook, Illuminate and Heat with Gas or Electricity")
7. Soldier Settlement Board of Canada - Back to the Land Movement
8. Alberta between the wars: 1919-1939
9. The Homestead House
10. The Homesteading Years in Alberta
11. The Homesteading Years in Alberta
12. The Canadian West - Accommodation
13. Churches in Quebec and English Canada
14. The 1920s
15. Canadian Heritage Gallery: Prohibition Poster
16. Prohibition Poster
17. The 1920s
18. The Roaring Twenties
19. Early 20th Century Fashion Links: 1920's
20. Flapper Station
21. Flapper!
22. The Lawless Decade
23. American history: The 1920's
24. Ted Lewis and his Band
25. Waring's Pennsylvanians

  THE THIRTIES

1. The League of Nations: An Outline History (1920-1946)
2. The 1930s
3. The Great Depression
4. The Great Depression
5. The Great Depression: Its Causes and Cure
6. The Great Depression: The United States
7. American history: The Crash and the Great Depression, The Great Depression and the New Deal, Dr. New Deal or Dr. Win-the-War
8. America from the Great Depression to World War II
9. Building America: FDR's New Deal
10. FDR cartoons
11. We Made Do - Recalling the Great Depression
12. WPA Life Histories from Connecticut
13. The Dust Bowl
14. Voices from the Dust Bowl
15. Popular culture developments of 1933
16. Radio Days: To Boldly Go (science-fiction radio programs from the Depression years)
17. The Hero Pulps!
18. LindyHop (original swing from the 1930's and 1940's)
19. Home Plate: Baseball in the 1930's
20. The Dionne Quintuplets
21. The Reichstag Fire
    
22. The Weimar Repubaic
    
23. The Weimar Republic
24. The U.S. 'Neutrality Act' of 1937 - text
    

  WORLD WAR II: 1939-1945

1. World War II
2. World War II : Yahoo
3. World War II on the Web
4. World War II Commemoration: Grolier Online
5. The History Place - World War Two in Europe Timeline
6. Chronology of World War II: 1939-1945
7. World War II: Chronology
8. Dunkirk Remembered
9. The Battle of Britain
10. The Atlantic Charter of 1941 - Churchill and Roosevelt
    
11. Casablanca Conference
12. The Canadian Military Heritage Project: WWII Historical Timeline
13. USA - WWII
14. Women's Land Army
15. Courage Remembered: The World Wars Through Canadian Eyes
16. Imperial War Museum
17. Canada in World War Two: Politics and Economics
18. Canada in World War Two: Social impact
19. Dieppe Raid Gallery
20. The Valour and the Horror: Canada at War
21. D. Day: The 50^th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy
22. World War II: The Home Front
23. A-Bomb WWW Museum
24. Cybrary of the Holocaust
25. United States Holocaust Museum
26. Responses to the Holocaust
27. Holocaust - contains several files on Hoess, Himmler, Warsaw Ghetto, Belzec, the Final Solution in Nazi Germany
    
28. Survivors'accounts - the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima - 1945 - one account
    
29. Survivors'accounts - the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima - 1945- another account
    
30. Canadian Concentration Camps
31. WATARI DORI: The Japanese Evacuation and Internment
32. Japanese-Canadian Internment
33. EarthStation 1's Propaganda Poster Page
34. World War II Propaganda Posters
35. Powers of Persuasion. Poster Art from World War II
36. Nazi Propaganda: 1933-1945
37. Codes and Ciphers in the Second World War
38. Bletchley Park
39. NOVA Online | Decoding Nazi Secrets
40. The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
41. Information Resource Centre, Canadian Forces College: Military History

  THE COLD WAR

1. Cold War Hot Links
2. The Cold War Museum
3. Cooperation in the Cold War
4. Truman Doctrine Address to Congress, President Harry Truman, March 12, 1947
5. President Truman's Speech, March, 1947. The 'Truman Doctrine' Speech
6. Marshall Plan Speech, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, June 1947
7. Speech Rejecting Marshall Plan, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky, UN General Assembly, September 1947
8. The Sources of Soviet Conduct, Anonymous (George Kennan, senior State Department official) Foreign Affairs quarterly, July 1947
9. Soviet View of International Affairs, Report on the international situation to the Cominform (the international communist information bureau), September 22, 1947
10. Inaugural Address, Harry Truman, January 20, 1949
11. Declaration of Israel's Independence, issued at TelAviv on May 14, 1948
12. NATO
13. Office of the Director of Central Intelligence - USA (CIA)
    
14. Preamble to the Treaty of Rome, 1957 - A useful preamble to the treaty that established the European Common Market - the full text is in next link
    
15. Full text of Treaty of Rome, 1957
16. The Four Faces of Peace (1957), Lester Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
17. Nobel Peace Prize Presentation Speech (1957), Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee
18. Khrushchev-Nixon "Kitchen Debate," American National Exhibit, Moscow, July 1959, The New York Times
19. American history: The Coils of Cold War, The Cold War & the fifties
20. External Affairs (1960), John Diefenbaker
21. U-2 Spy Plane Incident, 1960 - A series of six State Department notes exchanged between the White House and the Kremlin
    
22. President Kennedy's inaugural address, January, 1961 "...Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what..."
    
23. Inaugural Address (1961), John Kennedy
24. Inauguration of John Kennedy (audio file)
25. Berlin Crisis Speech, John Kennedy, July 25, 1961
26. Khrushchev's reaction to Kennedy's July 25 speech
27. A New Social Order (1963), John Kennedy, The Paulskirche, Frankfurt, Germany
28. A Strategy of Peace (1963), John Kennedy
29. Vietnam Era Documents - including President Johnson's "Gulf of Tonkin" Speech, 1964 and U.S. State Dept. messages.
    
30. Joint U.S.-China Communique (1972)
31. The Berlin Wall - includes links to Berlin Airlift, 20th century German history
    
32. Address to UN General Assembly (excerpts; 1988), Mikhail Gorbachev
33. The Malta Summit (1989), George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev
34. An Agenda for Peace - Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping, Report of the UN Secretary-General, 17 June 1992
35. Electronic Field Trip to the United Nations - very good U.N. negotiation sessions, history of U.N.
    
36. Peace and Disarmament Resources

  THE FIFTIES, SIXTIES, SEVENTIES & EIGHTIES

1. The Fifties
2. The Nineteen-fifties
3. The literature and culture of 1950s America
4. The Baby Boom
5. Baby Boom
6. The 1960s
7. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech, 1963
8. American culture of the 1960s and the Vietnam War
9. 1969 Woodstock Festival & Concert
10. Woodstock Festival
11. Le Front de liberation du Quebec
12. The Manifesto of the Front de Liberation du Quebec
13. America sinking through a Watergate
14. The Watergate Affair - A sound and video clip of Richard Nixon's "I am Not a Crook" speech. Takes about 10 minutes to download, but what a gem when you get it!
    
15. Bosnia -Official U.S. Dept. of Defense information about military operations and NATO mission in Bosnia
    
16. Central American Revolutions - American involvement in Central America
    
17. The 1980s - Yahoo
18. Jamaica: The Life of Bob Marley

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