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World War I -- Trenches on
the War
http://www.worldwar1.com/
The "Trenches" contains information on the people, places and events of World War I. It is an evolving project that allows the visitor to explore "The Great War" at any pace and to start from any point along the timeline of events of this devastating conflict.
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Germany During World War
II
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/6916/ww2.htm
This site gives a textual chronology of events that surrounded WW II. It includes sections on The Revolution, the Treaty, the Weimar Republic and The Nazi Rise to Power.
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The History Place/The Rise of Adolf Hitler
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm
The story of a relatively unknown man who became a nation's dictator and plunged most of the world into war, told in 24 chapters.
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German
Propaganda Archive
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/
This Calvin College site includes both examples of Nazi propaganda
and material produced for the guidance of propagandists.
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The Propaganda Papers
http://www.parascope.com/articles/0797/propmain.htm
Includes a variety of propaganda resources, from contemporary American psychological operations to WWII propaganda leaflets dropped across Germany.
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A Cybrary
of the Holocaust
http://remember.org/
Comprehensive study aid to the Holocaust using art, photography, text, and discussion groups.
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Nizkor
Project
http://www.nizkor.org/
Educational resource containing information on concentration
camps, Holocaust denial, and current organizations involved in
preserving Holocaust memories and Jewish heritage.
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Literature
of the Holocaust
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html
Extensive and varied collection of texts and links organized a to z.
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United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/olympics/zcc044.htm
This web site offers, along with many other resources, two of John
Heartfield’s works from the July 1936 issue of Arbeiter Illustrierte
Zeitung.
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Maus Resources on the Web
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/2671/
Contains reviews, scholarly articles, exhibit sites, Holocaust links and more related to cartoonist Art Spiegelman's celebrated graphic novel Maus.
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A Teacher's
Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/
An overview of the Holocaust including student activities and an
excellent section on the Arts, including art labeled "degenerate"
by the Nazis and art in response to the Holocaust.
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Social
Studies School Service for Holocaust Education
http://socialstudies.com/c/@mZ8aA8zaKI4Lc/Pages/holo.html
Great resource for teachers searching for Holocaust classroom materials, including books, posters, videos, and lesson plans.
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Man Ray
http://www.manray-photo.com/html/bio/setbio_gb.html
This World Events page link gives background information on photographer Man Ray, using both text and graphics.
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How the Other Half Lives
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
This World Events page site showcases the hypertext edition of Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, reproducing the full text and all the illustrations from the original print edition of this book, first published in 1890 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Living conditions in the city
http://www.idbsu.edu/socwork/dhuff/history/gallery/Gallery-JR/BIO.htm
This World Events page link takes you to a short biography of Jacob Riis, "Reformer and Photographer."
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Diesel design
http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/scientists/diesel.html
This World Events page link provides further information on Rudolf Diesel, creator of the diesel engine.
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Aspirin
http://pharminfo.com/pubs/msb/aspirin.html
This World Events page link takes you to an article entitled "America's 80 Billion-aspirin Habit," from the March 1994 issue of Medical Sciences Bulletin.
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New Russian Emperor
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Bridge/1230/Tsar.html
This World Events page site was created "In Tribute To Tsar Nicholas II and His Family 1868-1918," and gives biographies of the Tsar's family members.
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Dreyfus Affair
http://www.wfu.edu/~sinclair/dreyfus.htm
This World Events page link explores the case of Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused by the French Army of espionage.
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First Comic Strip
http://www.annie20th.com/sg-about-comic-strips.htm
This World Events page site gives a short history of comics in America.
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German Discovered X-rays
http://members.tripod.com/~Nevermore/xray.htm
This World Events page link contains an article written in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen's discovery of X-Rays in 1895.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
http://www.multiracial.com/government/plessy.html
This World Events page link from "The Multiracial Activist" concerns the famous United States Supreme Court Case of 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Jewish homeland movement
http://www.israelemb.org/zionism/noframes/herzl.html
This World Events page site gives biographical information on Theodore Herzl (1860-1904), the "father of Zionism."
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First Hague Peace Conference
http://www.haguepeace.org/about/bkgnd.html
This World Events page link from the Hague Appeal for Peace site provides "A Background Paper for The Hague Appeal for Peace," by Peter Weiss.
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Kodak Clicks
http://www.leica-camera.com/untern/tradi/trad_e.htm
This World Events page link leads to the story of inventor Oskar Barnack, who, as development manager at Leica, took an instrument for taking exposure samples - originally intended for cinema film - and turned it into the world's first 35 mm camera.
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Cubism
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/5/0,5716,22535+2+22192,00.html
This World Events page link takes you to an Brittanica entry on Paul Cézanne.
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Lenin
http://www.letsfindout.com/subjects/people/lenin.html
This World Events page link takes you to the Knowledge Adventure site and a page on "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Revolution Now!"
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German-Russian armistice signed
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/brestlitovsk.html
This World Events page link gives historical background information on the March, 1918 Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
