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| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk IIWhen Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power in Russia in October 1917, the most important task before them was to stop the war.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk IAfter nearly four years of fighting, Russia desperately needed peace--at any price.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Crash of Hindenburg IIIExpanded to huge dimensions and filled with highly flammable hydrogen gas, German airships became an important element of Hitler's propaganda machine.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 Science | History-Social Science |
| Crash of Hindenburg IVOn May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg--filled with 97 passengers and crew and tons of highly flammable hydrogen gas--was preparing to land at the U.S. Naval Station at Lakehurst, N.J., ending the uneventful first transatlantic trip of the season.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: Bataan Death MarchSoon after their surrender to the Japanese in the spring of 1942, nearly 18,000 U.S. and Philippine allied troops died in one of the most horrific wartime atrocities in the Asian theater...the Bataan Death March.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 |
| Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War IIWhile Francisco Franco and his fascists slowly led Spain into post-war economic and political recovery, he maintained a wary relationship with one of his key allies--the Roman Catholic Church.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War IIn the decades following the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, Spain moved through terrible partisan bloodletting and fascist repression but finally, and fitfully, into a mostly liberal democratic society.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: William Billy MitchellBilly Mitchell’s experience as Army air combat commander during World War I showed him that future success in warfare depended on air power. His problem was that he just couldn’t keep his mouth shut.Grades 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Russo Japanese War IIIn 1904 political forces within both Japan and Russia were pushing their governments toward war. Leading the war cries in Japan were proto-fascist groups that soon took over Japanese society.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
