President Harry S. Truman signs into law the European Recovery Program (known as the Marshall Plan)

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  Lesson 2: The Strategy of Containment, 1947–1948

  The unwillingness of the Soviet Union to allow the creation of independent and democratic states in Eastern Europe, and the failure of East and West to reach a compromise on Germany, left many Americans puzzled. Why were the Soviets acting as they did? Moreover, how should the United States respond? This lesson will consider containment through the use of original documents, mostly from the Truman Presidential Library. They will study what it meant in theory, and then examine the first two major instances of its application—the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

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Susan B. Anthony asks, “Is it a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote”?

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  Voting Rights for Women: Pro- and Anti-Suffrage

  Students research archival material to examine nineteenth and early twentieth century arguments for and against women's suffrage.

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  Who Were the Foremothers of Women's Equality?

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  Women's Equality: Changing Attitudes and Beliefs

  Students analyze archival cartoons, posters, magazine humor, newspaper articles and poems that reflect the deeply entrenched attitudes and beliefs the early crusaders for women’s rights had to overcome.

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Edward Everett Hale, abolitionist & short story writer, born

Dr. Martin Luther King delivers last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop"

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  Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Power of Nonviolence

  Students learn about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence and the teachings of Mohandas K. Gandhi that influenced King's views.

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