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| Hitler's Generals Conspire IIWhether through timidity or misfortune, the Generals who despised and conspired against Hitler lost the chance to stop him before war. Doggedly, however, they kept it up.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Flight Of Rudolf HessOn May 10, 1941, Adolf Hitler's Deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted onto a Scottish farm after an 800-mile solo flight. It was one of the war's most bizarre incidents.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Munich Olympics & Israeli Athletes IThe tragic murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics rested on the crossroads of opportunity inhabited by the West German government and Black September, a radical spin-off of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Munich Olympics & Israeli Athletes llIn September 1972, members of the Black September faction of the PLO murdered Israeli athletes and coaches at the Munich Olympic Games. It was an elaborate and tragic publicity stunt.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| LFM: Berlin AirliftBy July 1948 the Soviet Union no longer was willing to tolerate West Berlin. After the war, the Soviet Union forced Communist governments on most of those Eastern European nations its army had occupied, and erected barriers to impede communications, trade, and travel between East and West.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Kim Philby: Spying For The Other Side IIAs a student at Cambridge in the 1930s, Kim Philby was infused with an intellectual, emotional and life-long commitment to communism. That made him a willing recruit into the ranks of the Soviet espionage service.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Kim Philby: Spying For the Other Side IPolished and elegant, with upper-class education and heritage, Kim Philby in the 1940s rose in the ranks of British intelligence. He was, however, spying for the other side.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| Hitler's Generals Conspire IBy the fall of 1938 the Nazis had eliminated most opposition to Hitler, but not all.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| 1968: Polish Student Riots IIn the late 1960s, Eastern Europe students protested against Soviet repression. This was something new to the ultra hard line regime in Poland. There had been occasional minor outbursts on college campuses in Poland during the early 1960s, but these were quickly suppressed.Grades 9-12 History-Social Science |
| SegregationMost public places were racially segregated until the second half of the 20th century. These centenarians recount their experiences in a segregated Virginia.Grades 3-5 | 6-8 | 9-12 History-Social Science |
