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| LFM: Skip Bombing/Bismarck SeaMilitary innovation is often born of desperate circumstances. When Maj. General George Kenney took over Allied air operations in the Southwest Pacific in summer 1942, he faced a daunting set of problems.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Hitler's Family SecretFor Adolf Hitler the key to understanding history was not economics or morality, it was biology. A person's race determined how they fit into the Nazi scheme of things. That's why Hitler was petrified that someone would find out his family secret.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: Margaret Bourke-WhiteSome of the most compelling photographs to emerge from World War II were the images by Margaret Bourke-White, a woman who was accustomed to breaking down barriers erected to keep women out.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: Lewis "Chesty" PullerIn 37 years, through three wars, Caribbean interventions and regular service, Lewis "Chesty" Puller earned a reputation as a gruff, demanding leader. He became the most decorated Marine in Corps history, but it was at Guadalcanal and at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea that Puller attained iconic status.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Patsy Cline IPatsy Cline became a cultural legend at a time when country music was ghettoized, when only rarely did a country song cross over to the pop charts, and when female country singers were second-class citizens. She broke down all the walls.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Phi Betta KappaPhi Beta Kappa, the oldest Greek-letter American college fraternity, was founded in 1776 on the principles of social brotherhood and intellectual curiosity--but not drinking.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| McKinley Assassination IIAt the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated the president of the United States, William McKinley.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Mecklenburg Declaration IIOn May 31, 1775, delegates meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina--the seat of Mecklenburg County--passed a set of resolves providing for orderly government as the bonds between Britain and its colonies were breaking up. This event became the basis for the so-called "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence."Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| McKinley Assassination IOn September 4, 1901, Leon Czolgosz (chol-gosh) queued up to shake hands with the president of the United States, William McKinley. In his hand was a gun.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Harriet Beecher StoweWhen Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", first met Abraham Lincoln, the president is said to have said to her, “So this is the lady who made this big war.”Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
