Former vice president Aaron Burr arrested for treason against the United States

President Roosevelt authorizes internment of Japanese Americans

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  Lesson 1: Turning the Tide in the Pacific, 1941–1943

  In December 1941, Japanese armed forces launched a massive offensive, attacking targets as far East as Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and as far West as Burma. This lesson plan will focus on the overall strategies pursued by the Japanese and the Allies in the initial months of World War II in Asia and the Pacific.

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W.E.B. DuBois organizes first Pan-African Congress in Paris

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  African-American Soldiers After World War I: Had Race Relations Changed?

  In this lesson, students view archival photographs, combine their efforts to comb through a database of more than 2,000 archival newspaper accounts about race relations in the United States, and read newspaper articles written from different points of view about post-war riots in Chicago.

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  African-American Soldiers in World War I: The 92nd and 93rd Divisions

  Late in 1917, the War Department created two all-black infantry divisions. The 93rd Infantry Division received unanimous praise for its performance in combat, fighting as part of France’s 4th Army. In this lesson, students combine their research in a variety of sources, including firsthand accounts, to develop a hypothesis evaluating contradictory statements about the performance of the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I.

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