This is a great clip to introduce or review key points of the Truman Doctrine and The Marshall Plan in the rebuilding of Europe after WWII (World War 2, World War II, WW2). It includes clips of President Harry Truman and George Marshall as they propose an economic plan to help Europe rebuild. Only the Soviet Union (Russia) and its satelites will refuse the help setting the stage for the Iron Curtain to fall and The Cold War to begin.
This is a great video to help introduce or review the division of Germany after WWII (WW2, World War 2, World War II). It describes the Communist strategy of Joseph Stalin to blockade Berlin and the determination of the Allies to help with the Berlin Airlift. It also discusses the creation of N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), the Warsaw Pact, the creation of West Germany and East Germany. Mao Zedong, atomic bombs, and the spread of Communism during The Cold War, and also mentions Potsdam at the beginning of the clip.
This is a great video to introduce Feudalism in the Middle Ages. It explores the structure of the Feudal system of Nobility (Kings), Lords, Knights, and Peasants.
This is a gfeat clip to help explores the sit in demonstrations by the Greensboro Four and others that occurred at the Woolworth's in Greensboro North Carolina in 1960 during the Civil Rights Movement. It explains the story of the four and also includes a personal account from Franklin McCain, one of the four.
This is an inspirational story of a pilot (Colonel Gail "Hal" Halvorsen, Uncle Wiggly Wings) who began dropping candy by handkerchief parachutes to the children of Berlin during the Berlin blockade at the end of WWII and thebeginning of The Cold War. (It starts about 17 seconds into the video.)
This is an Awesome Overview of the CIvil Rights Movement. It covers everything from Plessy Vs. Ferguson, Ku Klux Klan - KKK, Brown Vs. The Topeka Board of Education, Rosa Parks, Little Rock Nine, Martin Luther King Jr. - MLK, Malcolm X, Black Power, Stokely Carmichael, Black Panthers, Robert F. Kennedy,Selma, Birmingham, Watts, Bloody Sunday, The March on Washington, and the Assassinations of the Civil Rights leaders to the election of Barack Obama.
This is a great video clip to introduce or start a discussion about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr - MLK.
This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President George Washington produced by Disney.
This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President James Monroe.
This is a great video overview with interesting facts about President John Quincy Adams.