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The fateful quarter century leading up to World War I was a time when the world of privilege still existed in Olympian luxury and the world of protest was "heaving in its pain, its power, and its hate."
The age was the climax of a century of the most accelerated rate of change to that point in history, a cataclysmic shaping of destiny.
Barbara Tuchman brings to vivid life the people, places, and events that shaped the years leading
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An important and provocative film suitable for Holocaust Studies, One Last Chance was filmed in Lithuania, Israel and Australia. This documentary produced in 2000 explores the Australian governmentʼs handling of allegations that a South Australian resident, Antanas Gudelis, was a war criminal and Nazi supporter, wanted for trial in Lithuania for leading a “death squad” which executed some 7,000 Lithuanian Jews and Communists during World War...
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A set of outstanding programs that re-create the human drama and spectacle that helped shape the American nation we know today. All 18 programs in this series are of feature-film caliber, and many star familiar actors. Written and filmed with the assistance of leading scholars, The Shaping of the American Nation will take your students to key historical locations and stimulate imagination and discussion about crucial people and events..
4) World War II
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The seeds of World War II were sown in the dark days of depression following the first world conflict. While the United States chose a course of isolationism, escalating aggression in Europe and Asia threatened world stability. Without warning, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor pushed the reluctant U.S. into war. The bloody conflict would span the globe and trigger political, social and military repercussions that would resonate through the twentieth...
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Las Vegas...Sin City...There is no place like it on earth. The adult playground in the Sun... The country s greatest resort city... the gambling capital of the world...A place of casinos...Home of the famous, and infamous Strip. It is a city where for the right price every kind of entertainment is available for everyone and anyone at any time... It is a city that never sleeps. But it is also a uniquely American city...A Western city ... A desert city....
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The Roaring Twenties was a decade of startling contrasts. World War I was over. Women got the right to vote, they cut their hair, and their skirts. Alcohol was outlawed and speakeasies and bootlegging filled the void. Babe Ruth was king of the ballpark while Charles Lindbergh ruled the air. It was a period of great economic growth and social transformation, nestled between a Great War and a Great Depression..
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"A real gem, fusing interviews, analysis and some terrific animation into an intriguing whole that plays like an intelligent thriller. " - Variety..Nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the 2012 Goyas, this is the unbelievable story of Manuel Cortes, the ‘mole of Mijas’. When the Spanish civil war ended and the borders closed, hundreds of people were forced to go into hiding to escape Franco’s repression. They lived for decades, hidden...
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Communists and capitalists united in World War II to defeat the Axis powers. But following victory in 1945 the allies became adversaries. The world’s two great superpowers—the United States and Soviet Union—locked in a dramatic showdown over ideology, vision and freedom that would persist for five decades. Under the omnipresent threat of nuclear holocaust, the Cold War became the defining conflict of the twentieth century. The second of two...
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World War I was sparked by nationalism and a complex web of political and military alliances. Soldiers in Europe fought the first modern war as industrial-age ingenuity sparked terror in the guise of warplanes, flamethrowers and chemical weapons. On the U.S. home front, women assumed new roles, the suffrage movement gained steam, and African Americans migrated to fill jobs in the North. Other changes were less positive, as racial tensions and the...
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1945 marked the end of World War II and the beginning of the power, politics and prosperity of the Post-War years. The presidency passed from Truman to Eisenhower and millions moved out of the city and onto the Interstate Highway System. The Cold War loomed, babies boomed, and the suburban family became the bull’s-eye for the mass market. Americans turned-on their televisions and tuned-in their car radios to hear the latest music fad: rock ‘n...
14) The Sixties
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In the 1960s, Americans embraced the liberal promises and programs of two presidents: John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kennedy, the East Coast blue blood, and Johnson, the rough-and-tumble Texan, could not have been more different. Yet each claimed the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt and sought to reshape the New Deal into their own world vision. JFK’s New Frontier and LBJ’s Great Society each had its triumphs and failures, but together...
15) Corporate Vegas
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The 1990s brought about changes to Vegas where corporations and large businesses transformed Vegas to the city we know today..
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From the original voice of British auteur Terence Davies comes a visual poem about the director’s life in Liverpool from 1945 to 1973. It is a very personal portrait of Liverpool, beyond its Beatles and its football clubs, the home of the writer’s birth, where youth and inspiration weave his own story into the recent history of the city with fascinating found footage and a lyrical soundtrack. ..The visual poem is played out against a backdrop...
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