Dermot Lucey,
Modern Europe and
the Wider World
Leaving Cert History
Worksheets
Web Resources
Dictatorship and Democracy, 1920–45
Communism in Russia
Russia 1900 to 1939 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/russia_1900_1939.htm
War Communism http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/warcommunism.htm
Lenin http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/vladmir_lenin.htm
Lenin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin
Lenin http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSlenin.htm
Russian Civil War http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/russia/
thecivilwarrev1.shtml
Russian Civil War http://www.johndclare.net/Russ7.htm
Stalin http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Stalin.htm
Stalin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
Stalin’s Purges http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html
Joseph Stalin and the Industrialisation of the USSR http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
education/heroesvillains/g4/
Gulag: Soviet Forced Labour Camps and the Struggle for Freedom – Stalin’s Gulag
http://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/stalin/
Soviet Union in WWII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_World_War_II
Soviet Union and the Eastern Front http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.
php?ModuleId=10005507
Search YouTube for Lenin, Stalin, Russian Civil War, Stalin’s Show Trials, Soviet Union in
World War II.
Case Study: Stalin’s Show Trials, 1936–38
Stalin’s Terror http://www.johndclare.net/Russ12.htm
The Great Purge http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSpurge.htm
Moscow Trials http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Trials
The Show Trials in the USSR http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ussr_show_trials.
htm
Great Purge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatPurge
Stalin’s Purges http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html
Animal Farm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm
Search YouTube under Stalin’s Show Trials and Stalin’s Purges.
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Modern Europe Resources
Origins and Growth of the Fascist Regimes in Europe
Mussolini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
Mussolini http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWmussolini.htm
March on Rome http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/march_on_rome.htm
March on Rome http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2371229.stm
Hitler http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html
The Rise of Hitler http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/
Nazi Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany
Nazi Germany http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/Nazi%20Germany.htm
Nazi Germany http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnazigermany.htm
Nazi Propaganda http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nazi_
propaganda_gallery.shtml
Holocaust http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143
Holocaust https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html
Search YouTube for Mussolini, March on Rome, Hitler’s Germany, Nazi Germany, AntiSemitism and the Holocaust.
Case Study: The Nuremberg Rallies
German Propaganda Archive, Nazi Propaganda, 1933–1945 http://www.calvin.edu/
academic/cas/gpa/
Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds
Topics – The Nazi Party Rally Grounds http://museums.nuremberg.de/documentationcentre/topics/party-rally-grounds.html
Search YouTube for Nuremberg Rally and Triumph of the Will.
Economic and Social Problems in Britain in the Inter-War Years,
1920–1939
UK economy in the 1920s http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5948/economics/
uk-economy-in-the-1920s/
Unemployed Britain 1920s and 1930s http://www.h2g2.com/entry/A9779269
General Strike 1926 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUgeneral.htm
Web Resources
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General Strike 1926 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_United_Kingdom_general_
strike
General Strike 1926 http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/
generalstrikerev2.shtml
Search YouTube for General Strike, Great Depression Britain.
Case Study: The Jarrow March
Jarrow March http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March
Jarrow http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/jarrow_01.shtml
The Depression of the 1930s http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/
britain/depressionrev1.shtml
Ellen Wilkinson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Wilkinson
Search YouTube for Jarrow March/Crusade.
Anglo-American Popular Culture in peace and war, 1920–1945
Charlie Chaplin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin – official website http://www.charliechaplin.com/
Bing Crosby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby
Bing Crosby http://bingcrosby.com/
Search YouTube for Charlie Chaplin to see extracts from his movies, and for Bing Crosby.
Politics and Administration in France: The Third Republic 1920–
40 and the Vichy State, 1940–1944
Popular Front government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_(France)
Invasion of France http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWfranceI.htm
Vichy France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
Pierre Laval http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laval
The Holocaust in France http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/france/
deportations.asp
Search YouTube for Vichy France.
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Modern Europe Resources
Hitler’s Foreign Policy, 1933–39 and the causes of World War II
Hitler’s Foreign Policy http://www.johndclare.net/RoadtoWWII1.htm
The Road to World War II www.johndclare.net/word_copies_of_booklets.htm
Road to World War II http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/
Search YouTube for Hitler’s Foreign Policy.
The Second World War, 1939–1945
The Second World War http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm
The Second World War http://www.theguardian.com/world/secondworldwar
World War Two http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
World War 2 http://www.world-war-2.info/
World War II http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/worldwar2/
Winston Churchill and the Bombing of Dresden http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
education/heroesvillains/g1/
Churchill: Leader and Statesman http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/
biography/churchill-leader-and-statesman
Churchill as War Leader http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/the-warleader/churchill-as-war-leader
Search YouTube for Second World War, World War II and for individual campaigns and
battles, e.g. The Battle of Britain.
Society during the Second World War
Home front during World War II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_front_during_
World_War_II
The Home Front http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/homefront
Home Front 1939–1945 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/homefront/
Britain’s Home Front in World War II http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/homefront.htm
Churchill: Leader and Statesman http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/
biography/churchill-leader-and-statesman
Churchill as War Leader http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/the-warleader/churchill-as-war-leader
Search YouTube for Holocaust, Home Front, Churchill.
Web Resources
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Division and Realignment, 1945–92
The Cold War in Europe
Introduction to the Cold War in Europe http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/
coldwar/p/prcoldwar101.htm
Causes of the Cold War http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war3.htm
Soviet Power in Eastern Europe http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/
mwh/ir2/sovietexpansionineasterneuroperev1.shtml
Cold War http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/
The Cold War http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/coldwar.htm
The Cold War Museum http://www.coldwar.org/articles/40s/links.asp
Cold War http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/
The Berlin Blockade http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war9.htm
The Berlin Blockade and airlift http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/
mwh/ir2/berlinblockaderev1.shtml
History of Poland (1945–89) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Poland
Reform, Coup and Collapse: The End of the Soviet State http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/
worldwars/coldwar/soviet_end_01.shtml
Search YouTube for Cold War, Berlin Blockade/Airlift, Berlin Wall, Khrushchev,
Gorbachev, Solidarity Poland.
Case Study: The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
HungarianRevolutionof1956
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents http://www2.gwu.
edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/
The Hungarian Revolution http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/
ir2/hungaryrev1.shtml
Anti-Soviet Movements in 1956 http://www.johndclare.net/cold_war14.htm
Search YouTube under Hungarian Revolution and Hungarian Uprising.
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Modern Europe Resources
European Unity
The History of the European Union http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/
European Integration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_integration
European Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
European Unity http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWeuropeunity.htm
The History of the European Union http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/anteceden2.
htm
The formation of the community of Europe http://www.cvce.eu/education/unitcontent/-/unit/en/02bb76df-d066-4c08-a58a-d4686a3e68ff/8f43262b-ebe0-422f-afee9b28a5ee451d
Jean Monnet http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/monnet.htm
Treaty of Rome http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/institutional_affairs/treaties/
treaties_eec_en.htm
Search YouTube for History of the European Union, Jean Monnet, Jacques Delors.
The Western Economies, 1945–90
Britain from 1945 onwards http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/
overview1945present01.shtml
UK 1945–90 handbook www.britishempire.co.uk/students/oibuk.pdf
Case Study: The Oil crisis, 1973
What caused the 1970s oil price shock? http://www.theguardian.com/
environment/2011/mar/03/1970s-oil-price-shock
1970s Energy Crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis
Search YouTube for 1973 Oil Crisis, Oil Embargo 1973, Oil Crisis 1979, OPEC.
The Communist Economies – Problems and Outcomes
The Economic Collapse of the Soviet Union http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/
sovietcollapse.htm
The Collapse of the Soviet Union http://www.faqs.org/espionage/Co-Cop/Cold-War1972-1989-the-Collapse-of-the-Soviet-Union.html
Web Resources
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Causes of the Soviet Collapse http://www.arcaneknowledge.org/histpoli/soviet.htm
End of the Cold War and the Soviet Union http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch33.htm
Polish economy http://countrystudies.us/poland/50.htm
Hungarian Economy http://countrystudies.us/hungary/40.htm
Marriage, the Family and the Changing Role of Women
Women in Britain in the 1950s http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/689
Feminism in 1950s Britain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism_in_1950s_Britain
Women in Britain http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/jmurray_01.shtml
Feminism in France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism_in_France
Affluence, Leisure Time and the Consumer Society
History of soccer: World War (Again) and Beyond http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/
soccerhistory.html
History of football in England 1945–1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_
football_in_England
History of the France national football team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_
the_France_national_football_team
History of German football http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_German_football
Sport in Italy http://www.lifeinitaly.com/sport/italy
Italian national football team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_national_football_team
Your 1950s: Fashion and leisure http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/
magazine/6683883.stm
Fashion and accessories of the 1950s http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sclothes.html
Tourism in Spain http://countrystudies.us/spain/69.htm
Youth and Popular Culture (including Sport) and the Mass
Media
Mods and Rockers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mods_and_rockers
Mods and Rockers http://subcultureslist.com/mods-and-rockers/
Mods and Rockers jailed http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/18/
newsid_2511000/2511245.stm
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Modern Europe Resources
Forty years ago pictures of Mods and Rockers shocked polite society. But were they
staged by the press? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/forty-years-agopictures-of-mods-and-rockers-shocked-polite-society-but-were-they-staged-by-thepress-558818.html
John Lennon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon
The Beatles http://www.thebeatles.com/#/
Teddy Boys http://subcultureslist.com/teddy-boys/
Skinheads http://subcultureslist.com/skinheads/
Punks http://subcultureslist.com/punks/
Youth culture and crime: what can we learn from history? http://www.historyextra.
com/feature/youth-culture-and-crime-what-can-we-learn-history
Search YouTube for mods and rockers, Beatles, John Lennon, teddy boys, punks,
skinheads.
Changing Patterns in Religious Observance
Church of England http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/cofe/cofe_1.
shtml
Case Study: The Second Vatican Council
Documents of the Second Vatican Council http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_
councils/ii_vatican_council/
Vatican II Voice of the Church http://vatican2voice.org/
How the Second Vatican Council responded to the modern world http://www.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2012/oct/11/second-vatical-council50-years-catholicism
The Second Vatican Council http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v1.
html#Preparation
Vatican Council II and the Church in the Modern World http://www.catholiceducation.
org/articles/history/world/wh0090.html
Pope John Paul II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II
Pope John Paul II http://www.theguardian.com/world/popejohnpaul2
Search YouTube for Second Vatican Council documentary, Pope John XXIII, Pope John
Paul II.
Web Resources
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The Impact of Advances in Biological Sciences, Nuclear Power
and the Computer
Nuclear power in Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany
50 Years of the Euratom Treaty http://www.euronuclear.org/e-news/e-news-16/
euratom-treaty.htm
The European Parliament and the Euratom Treaty Section I http://www.academia.
edu/1065499/The_European_Parliament_and_the_Euratom_Treaty_Past_Present_
and_Future
The failure of Euratom http://www.cvce.eu/education/unit-content/-/unit/
en/02bb76df-d066-4c08-a58a-d4686a3e68ff/957de4a8-4422-4e8f-9194-ebf39fdf7065
The birth of the web http://home.web.cern.ch/about/birth-web
Literature and Social Criticism: East and West
The Thaw http://www.soviethistory.org/index.
php?page=subject&SubjectID=1954thaw&Year=1954
Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSsolzhenitsyn.htm
Gulag Archipelago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_
Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich
Dissident Movement http://gulaghistory.org/nps/onlineexhibit/dissidents/movement.
php
Simone de Beauvoir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/
The Second Sex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Sex
The Second Sex http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/secondsex/
George Orwell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
Animal Farm Themes http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/themes.html
Nineteen Eighty-Four http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
Angry Young Men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men
Search YouTube for Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago, Animal Farm, 1984.
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Modern Europe Resources
The USA and the Wider World
US Politics
American Experience: The Presidents – Truman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
americanexperience/films/truman/player/
American Experience: The Presidents – Eisenhower http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
americanexperience/features/general-article/eisenhower-legacy/
American Experience: The Presidents – J. F. Kennedy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
americanexperience/features/introduction/jfk-introduction/
American Experience: The Presidents – LBJ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
americanexperience/features/introduction/lbj-introduction/
American Experience: The Presidents – Nixon http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
americanexperience/features/introduction/nixon-introduction/
American Experience: The Presidents – Reagan http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/
americanexperience/features/introduction/reagan-intro/
The Presidents http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/
Harry S. Truman Library & Museum http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum http://www.jfklibrary.org/
LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org/
Presidency of the United States of America http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/
topic/717803/presidency-of-the-United-States-of-America
Search YouTube for US Presidents, US Presidential documentary, Truman, Kennedy,
Johnson.
US Foreign Policy, 1945–72
The Cold War http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war
The Cold War http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/coldwar/default.htm
The Cold War Erupts http://www.ushistory.org/us/52a.asp
Office of the Historian, Milestones in the Cold War http://www.ushistory.org/us/52a.
asp
Berlin Airlift http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/berlin_
airlift/large/index.php
American Experience: The Berlin Airlift http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/airlift/
Korean War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Web Resources
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Korean War http://www.history.com/topics/korean-war
To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis; JFK Presidential Museum & Library
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Exhibits/Special-Exhibits/To-The-Brink-JFK-and-theCuban-Missile-Crisis.aspx
10 Things You May Not Know about the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.history.com/
news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-cuban-missile-crisis?cmpid=INT_
Outbrain_HITH_HIS&obref=obnetwork
Cuban Missile Crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.history.com/topics/cuban-missile-crisis
Search YouTube for Cold War, Berlin Airlift/Blockade, Korean War, Truman, Cuban
Missile Crisis.
Case Study: Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, 1963–68
Vietnam War http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war
Battlefield: Vietnam http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/
American Experience: Vietnam Online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/
The Vietnam War http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/
Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/johnson_vietnam.
htm
LBJ Presidential Library: The Vietnam Conflict http://www.lbjlibrary.org/exhibits/
the-vietnam-conflict
Was Vietnam a turning point in the Cold War? http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
education/coldwar/G6/default.htm
Search YouTube for Vietnam War, Tet Offensive, Lyndon Johnson, Anti-war movement.
Domestic Factors in US Foreign Policy, 1945–72
Joe McCarthy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
Joseph R. McCarthy http://www.history.com/topics/joseph-mccarthy
McCarthyism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
McCarthyism http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAred.htm
McCarthyism http://www.ushistory.org/us/53a.asp
Herblock’s History – Cartoons http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/fire.html
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Modern Europe Resources
HUAC Un-American Activities Committee http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
USAhuac.htm
Protests against the Vietnam War http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/protests_
vietnam_war.htm
Vietnam War Protests http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war-protests
The Antiwar Movement http://www.ushistory.org/us/55d.asp
Turning Points in the Vietnam War http://www.historytoday.com/viv-sanders/turningpoints-vietnam-war
Search YouTube for Joe McCarthy, Red Scare 1950s, Anti-war Movement.
Decline in Cold War Certainties, 1972–89
The War Ends in Vietnam http://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/ritas-site/united-states-pullsout-vietnam
Vietnamisation http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/vietnamisation.htm
1972 Nixon Visit to China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Nixon_visit_to_China
Foreign Policy at the Reagan Administration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_
policy_of_the_Ronald_Reagan_administration
Reagan Foreign Affairs http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/
general-article/reagan-foreign/
President Reagan’s Foreign Policy http://www.reaganfoundation.org/foreign-policy.
aspx
The Reykjavik Summit http://www.thereaganvision.org/the-reykjavik-summit-thestory/
Search YouTube for Nixon and Vietnam, Vietnam War, Cold War documentary, Reagan
and Gorbachev.
Sources of the US Economic Boom, 1945–68
The Post-War Economy 1945–60 http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-114.htm
Economy in the 1950s http://www.shmoop.com/1950s/economy.html
The 1950s in America http://www.history.com/topics/1950s
Military-industrial complex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
Baby Boom http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/baby-boom/
US immigration since 1965 http://www.history.com/topics/us-immigration-since-1965
Web Resources
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The Changing Demographic Profile of the USA www.fas.org/sgp/cvs/misc/RL32701.
pdf
Fifty Years of Population Change in the US, 1960–2010 http://www.newgeography.com/
content/002231-fifty-years-population-change-us-1960-2010
1965 Immigration Law Changed Face of America http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5391395
Search YouTube for US economic boom 1950s, Highway Act.
The Declining Economy – Domestic Recession
The decline of US economy http://210.72.21.12:8008/servlet/
PagePreviewServlet?type=1&articleid=4635120&nodeid=521149&siteid=453
Economic Consequences of War on the US Economy www.thereformedbroker.com/
wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Economic-Consequences-of-War.pdf
America in the 1970s http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/anxiety.htm
Responding to the Oil Shock: The US economy since 1973 http://www.fee.org/the_
freeman/detail/responding-to-the-oil-shock-the-us-economy-since1973#axzz2bhC0Igp3
The Energy Crisis http://www.theomahaproject.org/module_display.php?mod_
id=85&review=yes
Reaganomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics
Reaganomics http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/Reaganomics.html
Reaganomics http://www.ushistory.org/us/59b.asp
The Affluent Society
Social Trends of the 1950s http://www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/sat2/history/
chapter19section5.rhtml
The 1950s http://www.shmoop.com/1950s/society.html
The Affluent Society http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_
id=46&review=yes
American women in the 1950s http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/1025/
fifties.htm
Betty Friedan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan
Betty Friedan Interview http://www.pbs.org/fmc/interviews/friedan.htm
Betty Friedan http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/friedan-betty
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Modern Europe Resources
Marilyn Monroe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
Marilyn Monroe found dead http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/
august/5/newsid_2657000/2657289.stm
National Organization of Women http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/p/
now.htm
History of NOW http://www.now.org/history/
Search YouTube for the affluent society 1950s, Mohammad Ali, Betty Friedan, Marilyn
Monroe.
Consensus? 1945–68
USA 1950s http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/liberal.htm
The 1950s http://www.history.com/topics/1950s
The 1960s http://www.history.com/topics/1960s
HUAC Un-American Activities Committee http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/
USAhuac.htm
HUAC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
Red Scare 1947–1957 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare
Search YouTube for Red Scare 1950s, HUAC.
Troubled Affluence
The Struggle for Civil Rights, JFK Presidential Library & Museum http://civilrights.
jfklibrary.org/
Civil Rights in America http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/civil1.htm
Civil Rights Movement http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement
American Civil Rights Movement http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/
article-9082763
A New Civil Rights Movement http://www.ushistory.org/us/54.asp
Civil Rights in America http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/topics/civilrights.htm
Search YouTube for Eyes on the Prize, Civil Rights, Freedom Rides, lunch counter
protests, Selma to Montgomery, Mohammad Ali, Malcolm X.
Web Resources
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Case Study: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955–56
The Montgomery Bus Boycott http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/
encyclopedia/enc_montgomery_bus_boycott_1955_1956/
The Montgomery Bus Boycott http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/
The Montgomery Bus Boycott http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/
story/02_bus.html
Rosa Parks http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/rosa_parks.htm
Martin Luther King http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.
Martin Luther King http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/
king-bio.html
Martin Luther King http://www.martinlutherking.org/
Martin Luther King http://www.history.com/topics/martin-luther-king-jr
Search YouTube for Montgomery Bus Boycott, Eyes on the Prize, Civil Rights in America,
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks.
The Collapse of Consensus, 1968–89
The Sixties http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/topics/culture/
The 1960s http://www.shmoop.com/1960s/culture.html
Counterculture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture
Hippie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
History of the Hippie Movement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hippie_
movement
Search YouTube for hippie movement, counterculture.
Religion, the Mass Media and Higher Education
US Religious Landscape Survey http://religions.pewforum.org/reports#
Religion in Post-War America http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/
tkeyinfo/trelww2.htm
Billy Graham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham
Catholic Church in USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_the_United_
States
Moral Majority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority
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Modern Europe Resources
The Black Church http://blackdemographics.com/culture/religion/
US cinema in 1950s http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ryahnke/film/cinema4.htm
1950s film history http://www.filmsite.org/50sintro.html
1960s film history http://www.filmsite.org/60sintro.html
American cinema of the 1950s http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/americancinema1950s
US cinema in 1960s http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ryahnke/film/cinema5.htm
Search YouTube for Billy Graham.
Advances in Technology
Space Race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race
The Space Race http://www.history.com/topics/space-race
The Space race http://www.jfklibrary.org/Exhibits/Permanent-Exhibits/The-SpaceRace.aspx
Fifty Years of Human Spaceflight http://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/fifty-years/
online/index.cfm
The Cold War and the early space race http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/cold/
articles/godwin.html
Space Race http://www.nationalcoldwarexhibition.org/learn/space-race/nationalcurriculum.cfm
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercontinental_
ballistic_missile
Nuclear arms race http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_arms_race
The Nuclear Arms Race http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nuclear_arms_race.htm
Nuclear Arms Race http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDnucleararms.htm
Military Industrial Complex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/
History of the Computer http://www.historyofcomputer.org/
Search YouTube for Space Race.
Case Study: The First Moon Landing, 1969
Apollo 11 http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/introduction.htm
Apollo 11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
Web Resources
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Apollo 11 http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_40/
The Moon Landing http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/07/99/the_moon_
landing/396037.stm
Apollo 11 http://airandspace.si.edu/events/apollo11/
Apollo 11 Moon Landing http://www.theguardian.com/science/apollo-11-moonlanding
Search YouTube for Apollo mission, Moon Landing, Space Race.
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Modern Europe Resources