This is a great video to help introduce or review Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Linda Brown) and how it affected the end of segregation in schools during the Civil Rights Movement.
This is a great video to introduce or review the Sit ins at the Woolworth's Drug Store in Greensboro North Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement.
This is a great video to help introduce or review the Nashville, Tennessee Sit ins during the Civil Rights Movement.
This is a great video to introduce or explore the Birmingham, Alabama protests during the Civil Rights Movement.
This is a great short clip to introduce or review President JFK's announcement of a "moral issue" of discrimination during the Civil Rights Movement.
This is a great video clip to help introduce or review the March on Washington with Martin Luther King (MLK) during the Civil Rights Movement.
This is a great video clip to help explain the George Kennan's proposed policy containment of Soviet style communism at the end of World War II (WWII, WW2, World War 2) and at the beginning of the Cold War that would bring about the iron curtain. (includes clip of Winston Churchill)
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.