Essential events
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy
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5) Moon landing
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[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Describes the first landing on the moon, including information about the space race and the Apollo 11 crew and spacecraft.
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Building the Panama Canal
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The French & Indian War
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The Hindenburg disaster
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Terror at the Munich Olympics
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The United States enters World War I
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The Amistad
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The bubonic plague
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The Chernobyl Disaster
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19) The cold war
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[2011]
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Examines the twentieth-century standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, discussing origins, nuclear strategies, and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
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The earthquake in Haiti
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The Endurance expedition
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2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Examines an important historic event -- the modern global financial crisis. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the impact of the failing housing market and the credit crisis in the United States, the US government bailouts of banks, automakers, and other businesses, issues around financial regulation and the US Federal Reserve, the spread of financial problems to Europe, Japan, and China, and the effects of this event on society.
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The Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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The Holocaust
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The Korean War
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The Manhattan Project
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27) The New Deal
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[2011]
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An overview of the New Deal program created by President Franklin Roosevelt to help the United States recover from the Great Depression. Discusses the New Deal's effects and public reaction to it. Includes many photos, a timeline, and a glossary.
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The transcontinental railroad
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30) Bleeding Kansas
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This title examines an important historic event - bleeding Kansas. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of America during this violent time period as territories entered the Union as free or slave states. Readers will learn about the Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the man behind it, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas, the signer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, President Franklin Pierce, and the effects of this event on...
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This title examines an important historic event - the gold rush in California. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the first discovery of gold and the creation of boomtowns in the West, issues with the Mexican government, military desertion, expansionism, and the environmental consequences of mining, key characters such as John Sutter, Samuel Brannan, Colonel Richard B. Mason, and President James K. Polk, the roles of journalism, transportation,...
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The Chilean miners' rescue
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The civil rights movement
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This title examines an important historic event - the orphan train movement. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of the Children's Aid Society and the development of the Brace School, lodging houses, and industrial schools, the conditions that led to child abandonment in the 1800s, problems with institutional care and child labor laws, the roles the Civil War, the Great Depression, and people like Charles Loring Brace played, and the...
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The Oregon Trail
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39) Scottsboro Boys
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This title examines an important historic event – the trials of the nine Scottsboro Boys that took place in Alabama. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of America at the time of the trials, the accounts of the nine men on trial regarding their train ride from Tennessee to Alabama, their sentences, and the effects of this event on society. Readers will learn about the Great Depression, the Jim Crow south, lynching, the Ku Klux Klan,...
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This title examines an important historic event - the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of nuclear power in the United States, how a nuclear plant works, details of the emergency at Metropolitan Edison Company's nuclear power plant, handling of the disaster by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, President Jimmy Carter's visit to Three Mile Island, the investigation into...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
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This title examines an important historic event - the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, Arizona. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the man behind the shooting, Jared Loughner, and his history of mental illness, the disease schizophrenia, Giffords rise in politics, the political climate in America, including the hot button issue of health-care reform, Giffords's fight for her life, and the effects of this event...
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This title examines an important historic event-the civil rights efforts in Mississippi during the summer of 1964, known today as Freedom Summer. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in leading voter registration efforts and improving education in the state. Also examined are the murders of civil rights workers and the hate crimes they faced, considered in the social context of segregation....
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2014.
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This title examines an important historic event-the powerful tornadoes that ripped through Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and surrounding areas on May 20 and May 31, 2013. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores what happened when the tornadoes struck, how people took shelter, and how victims are rebuilding. Also discussed are the science behind tornadoes and how meteorologists predict and track them. Features include a table of contents, glossary, selected...
44) The Berlin Wall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Discusses why the Berlin Wall was built, what life was like in a divided city, and why it was torn down, and explores the political context behind the wall.
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This title examines an important historic event-the June 6, 1944, Allied landing in Normandy, France, during World War II. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the planning and espionage prior to the invasion, the events of the Normandy landing, the military equipment used, and the battle's aftermath. Also discussed is the military context of the invasion, including events in the war that made the landing possible and necessary and the mission's...
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
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This title examines an important historic event--the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the man behind the shooting, Adam Lanza, the tragic events of December 14, 2012, the shooting's aftermath and the community's response, and the victims' families advocacy work in subsequent months. Also discussed are gun laws in the United States, new legislation introduced in Congress...
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This title examines an important historic event--1991-1992 Los Angeles from the arrest and subsequent beating of Rodney King that led to the arrest and trial of the four police officers involved in the Rodney King arrest. Discusses the riots that occurred in Los Angeles in 1992 after the verdict in the Rodney King case.