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| Gladbeck HostagesEvery decade has its share of important events. But this completely engrossing series highlights only the best, the most far-reaching, the most worldly, and the most consequential of the 1980s.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| The U.S. Enters World War IIAboard a Liberty ship, George says that many Americans--the isolationists--once again wanted their country to stay out of the war. The United States did not join the Allies against the Axis until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands in 1941.Grades 6-8 History-Social Science |
| Vietnam Revolution 1945 IVThe defeat of Japan was near in 1945, and the United States had to decide whether to permit the French to return to power in Vietnam.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Vietnam Revolution 1945 IIn 1945, Vietnam stood at a crossroads. Decisions made then in Washington, Paris, Saigon and Hanoi provoked a war lasting three decades. The roots of the war are found far in the past.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Vietnam Revolution 1945 IITaking advantage of internal conflict between Vietnamese factions and pressed by missionaries of the Roman Catholic Church, French traders and finally the French government moved slowly into Vietnam.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Building of Berlin Wall IISurrounded by East Germany--and its citizens sometimes subjected to hostile restrictions on travel--West Berlin proved itself a shining example of the virtues of political and economic freedom. It had to be stopped.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| House Divided III: Spencer Repeating Rifle PatentedOn March 6, 1860, young Christopher M. Spencer was issued his first patent for a breech-loading repeating rifle. This weapon would become one of the most trusted, popular and perhaps decisive of the War Between the States.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Vietnam Revolution 1945 IIIFired by the dream of independence for his country, Ho Chi Minh spent a lifetime trying to find the right combination of forces necessary to get the French out of Vietnam.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Freedom Summer SNCCThe 1964 campaign by civil rights activists to register African-American voters in Mississippi became known as the "Freedom Summer."Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Building of Berlin Wall IAt the height of the Cold War, with tensions at a fevered pitch, the Soviet Union and its East German client state--in an act of self-preservation--built a wall around West Berlin.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
