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FILE PHOTO: General Chuck Yeager speaks to a crowd in Kill Devil Hills
Daily Video December 08 2020

Chuck Yeager, first to break the sound barrier, dies at 97
Charles "Chuck" Yeager was a pilot whose flights in experimental craft contributed to space travel.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe offers a wreath to the cenotaph for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing, at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan
Daily Video August 06 2020

Teach your students about the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima
Learn about the 75th anniversary of America's dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
World War II veterans and Pearl Harbor survivors Seelie, and "Chick" Gallela attend an annual Memorial Day commemoration ceremony in New York
Post December 07 2017

"A date which will live in infamy": Pearl Harbor remembered — Class Discussion
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Daily Video June 16 2017

After 70 years, voices of Holocaust survivors sing again
When the concentration camps of Europe were liberated at the end of World War II, David Boder, a psychologist from Chicago, recorded interviews with dozens of former prisoners.
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Daily Video February 22 2017

75 years later, Japanese internment executive order remembered
February 19, 2017, marked the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s controversial executive order, which allowed the government to incarcerate Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II.
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Lesson Plan May 27 2016

Historic Presidential Visit to Hiroshima
President Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, seven decades after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Have your students learn more about this historic visit by watching videos and researching images of the Hiroshima bombing then and now.
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Post September 03 2015

Remembering Japan's surrender to Allied forces — Class Activity
Seventy years ago, Japan formally surrendered World War II aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Ja…
Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki
Post August 06 2015

Five things your class should know on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing
World War II, Atomic bomb mushroom clouds over Hiroshima (left) and Nagasaki (right), August 1945, …
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Daily Video June 23 2015

Military conducted race-based experiments during WWII
The U.S. tested the effects of highly toxic mustard gas on troops in nonconsensual, race-based experiments during World War II, according to a new NPR investigation.
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Lesson Plan April 23 2005

Lesson plan: The history of the United Nations

Explore the history, mission and basic operation of the United Nations
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