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Lecture/Audio Series

Dr. Bill Ross

MOOSEMUSS - intro

6:18

MOOSEMUSS – defined item by item

4:25

Pearl Harbor

5:47

Football demo

7:42

Football analysis

3:54

Election of 2000

7:30

US in Pacific

9:22

US in Africa & Europe

4:42

After VE day/Japan/End of WWII

3:38

Chalk Talk, Connecting w/students, oral history

3:05

Dr. Regina Gramer –

Top

Personal background growing up in post-WWII Germany, Researching local history with primary sources

16:57

Blitzkrieg

9:08

Occupation & Collaboration

8:24

Resistance, total war(civilians)

6:59

Hitler’s ideological goals – genocide, Jews, Russians, others

24:26

Decline of Axis Power 1942-44, increase of Hilter’s popularity

7:20

WWII history/monuments in East Germany vs. West Germany

5:39

Final phases of war 1944-45, casualty totals, population transfers

8:30

 

 

Dr. Regina Gramer

Top

WWII transition to Cold War/Gaddis

2:37

US Entry into the War/Pearl Harbor

4:54

Differing US strategies regarding Germany & Japan

7:51

Overview of Pacific Theatre

4:20

Normandy/opening of 2nd front

4:09

WWII as “Good War” - focus on US economics

4:10

War-related rationing

8:03

US Propaganda

2:07

FDR’s “4 Freedoms”

3:35

To what extent are wars good? WWII forced US civil rights increases

8:19

Social changes:  GI Bill, Women’s rights, Minorities, Immigration

4:52

Internment (Japanese & others), US Propaganda

8:09

Tensions among Allies;  “The Bomb”

6:57

Dr. Frank Annunziata

Top

Intro/Bio

3:43

FDR/Lecture preview/context

2:54

Bibliography/suggested reading

6:35

Isolationism vs. Imperialism prior to WWII

8:13

Wilson

4:10

“Legend” of Isolationism

2:05

Students, dates & creating context

6:52

Wilson, Lenin & US-USSR, Churchill, Stalin, Rise of Hitler

7:08

Orwell – Animal Farm

4:32

Post WWI, FDR – conflicting interests within US

3:09

FDR overview – Presidency transformed from necessity

3:36

FDR violates 2 term tradition, 22nd Amendment

4:35

Shifting Perspectives – Progressives – New Deal – JFK

3:42

FDR as Master of Improvisation

1:46

FDR & Hitler, resources

3:29

 

 

Dr. Frank Annunziata –

Top

FDR, Stalin & Mao

1:09

FDR’s polio & illness in 1944

2:36

Truman takes office; “What If” books; Henry Wallace

4:22

MLK-creating context, FDR’s VP’s, Reagan voted for FDR

3:24

Discussion-repeal 22nd Amendment, election of Truman & beyond

3:05

FDR’s health/disability – continuing discussion

5:00

FDR’s death, women, comparison to other Presidents

7:40

JFK & LBJ

4:45

RFK & LBJ

1:51

US, FDR & Holocaust

7:07

Russians & Holocaust

1:25

TR, FDR & Eleanor

0:41

Civil Rights, FDR-JFK, Racism, Classism

9:38

© 2004-2008 East Brunswick Public Schools
Teaching American History Grant
US Department of Education
Revised 01/18/2008
Michael Vinella, PhD: Grant Project Director
mvinella@ebnet.org