Grade 9 Humanities - Curriculum Document

General

National Geographic Atlas Online 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/index.html

The World 1900 - 1920

Maps 1900 - 1920

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/1907powr.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/triple.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/post-ww1.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/euro1900.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/euro1914.htm

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/austhung.htm

World War I 

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/Year9.htm

Great War Online - http://www.thegreatwaronline.com/

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/10/98/world_war_i/newsid_197000/197437.stm

Interactive Timeline and Chronology

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/timeline/index.html

http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/LostPoets/Chronology.html

Personalities

 Clemenceau - http://mama.essortment.com/georgeclemencea_rcbp.htm 

Wilson - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ww28.html

Lloyd George -  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWgeorge.htm

Lloyd George - http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/eng/stamps/dlgbio.htm

Kaiser Wilhelm II- http://www.worldwar1.com/biokais.htm

Wilson's Fourteen Points

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/14points.html

http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/USA/14Points.html

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob34.html

Treaty of Versailles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/versaill/versahtm.htm

http://www.yitm.com/yitm/ww1/history_day/

Photographs of the War

http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/photos/greatwar.htm

Propaganda

http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/

War Poets

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm 

United States Government

Documents

Online US Constitution - http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html

 Columbus's Letter of Discovery- http://www.ushistory.org/documents/columbus.htm

Mayflower Compact - http://www.ushistory.org/documents/mayflower.htm

American Declaration of Independence - http://www.thedeclarationofindependence.org/

Washington's First Inaugural Address - http://www.nara.gov/exhall/originals/inaugura.html

Monroe Doctrine - http://www.ushistory.org/documents/monroe.htm

Gettysburg Address- http://www.ushistory.org/documents/gettysburg.htm

Lincoln's Emancipation Declaration - http://aol.bartleby.com/43/34.html

Background to the Writing of the Constitution

American War of Independence - http://home.ptd.net/~revwar/

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/online/Bookshelves/WAI.htm

Timeline of the American war of Independence - http://www.ushistory.org/march/timeline.htm

Framers of the Constitution - http://www.usconstitution.net/constframedata.html

US Presidency

http://www.theamericanpresidency.net/

Portraits of US Presidents - http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=16

Inaugural Addresses - http://www.re-quest.net/history/inaugurals/index.htm

Senate and House of Representatives

http://www.senate.gov/learning/stat_13.html

http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house/index.html

Supreme Court

http://lawbooksusa.com/cconlaw/schenckvunitedstates.htm

Brown vs. Topeka- http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Brown/

http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/brown.html

Plessey vs. Ferguson- http://www.berea.edu/SOC/Burnside/EarlyBlackBerea/1896.html

 Dredd Scott - http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/21.htm

The Roaring 20s. "Boom and Bust"

http://www.louisville.edu/~kprayb01/1920s.html

Prohibition - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/4399/

Henry Ford - http://www.wiley.com/legacy/products/subject/business/forbes/ford.html

Wall Street Crash - http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/crash/crashhtm.htm

Farm Life in the Depression - http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2107/dadindex.html

Dust Bowl - http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html

John Steinbeck - http://lead.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/steinbeck.html#Achievements

Grapes of Wrath - http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html

FDR / The New Deal

FDR's State of the Union Address 1938 - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/fr32/speeches/su38fdr.htm 

Excerpts from FDR's inaugural addresses - http://www.greatseal.com/levels/level13.html 

New Deal Archive - http://www.newdeal.feri.org/magpie/index.htm

Biography: FDR - http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/fdroosevelt.html

Biography: Herbert Hoover - http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html

The League of Nations

League in general - http://www.encyclopedia.com/searchpool.asp?target=@DOCTITLE%20League%20of%20Nations

Covenant of the League - http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multi/www/league-covenant.html

Wilson and the League - http://www.san.beck.org/WP20-LeagueofNations.html

Heile Sellasie's appeal to the League - http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/selassie.htm

Italian - Abyssinian War - http://www.toy-soldier-gallery.com/Articles/AbyssinianWar/AbyssinianWar2.html

Rise of Hitler / US Involvement in WWII

Timeline 1918 - 1946 - http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

Source Documents - http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/

US Foreign Policy 1931 - 45 - http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/paw/index.html

Pearl Harbor: Eye Witness - http://www.ibiscom.com/pearl.htm

National Geographic: Pearl Harbor - http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Yale - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm

Atomic Weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

General website and links: http://www.dannen.com/moreinfo.html

Photographs: http://www.gensuikin.org/english/photo.html

Hiroshima Peace Site: http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/indexE.html

Avalon Project. Yale: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm

Japanese Constitution

Online version in English: http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Japan/English/english-Constitution.html

Constitution of 1889:  http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1889con.html

Background to the constitutions: http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/outline/00outline.html

MacArthur and the Japanese constitution: http://www.crf-usa.org/election_central/japan_democracy.htm