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World War I
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Cold War

Rise of Independent Nations
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Africa
Americas
Asia
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Rise of Independent Nations and Conflicts in Established Nations

General Resources

Abolish - The Anti-Slavery Web Portal
Anatomy of a Revolution by Crane Brinton
Atlapedia Online
The British Empire
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
The Choices Program Teaching with the News
Conflict and Refugees_ A global Problem
Conjuring the Modern in Africa: Durability and Rapture in Histories of Public
Freedom Fighter or Terrorist? A WebQuest
Frontline - Give War a Chance
Healing between the Great Lakes of East Africa
Country Reports, for Countries Around the World!
Country Studies_ Area Handbook Series (Library of Congress _ Federal Research Division)
Educational Reference Links
Foreign Affairs: The New Global Slave Trade
Genocide
Genocide Studies Program - Yale University
Genocide Unearthed
Global Incident Map.com - Global Display of Terrorism and Other Suspicious Events
Hans Rosling: Debunking Third-World Myths
The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century
Imperialism
Imperial Notions: Examining the Effects of Colonialism on Peoples Around the World
Index of Economic Freedom
Issues of Genocide in the Modern and Contemporary World
Lonely Planet - Destinations
MIT Security Studies Program
Modern Slavery 101
Mrs. Ruland's US History - WWW Resources - Contemporary Issues
Nation by Nation Almanac
Nationalism
This site contain short discussion on the conditions necessary for nationalism as well as the history of nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The New Americans
Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview
Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003
Smithsonian Channel - Light at the Edge of the World
South Asia Analysis Group
Terrorism
UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
Virtualsources.com - Country information and resources
WebQuest: Never Again!  Again?
What War Looks Like - Volume 17 No. 2 - Winter 2002_2003 - Rethinking Schools Online
Wide Angle - PBS
Women's Issues - 3rd World - Home Page
21st Century Slaves

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Africa

General

Africa
Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
African History - Independence
African Religion
Africa South of the Sahara
African Timelines
Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple
Art and Life in Africa Project
 
As We Forgive: Can Mercy Restore What Genocide Destroyed?
The Athens of West Africa
Biafra: Thirty Years On
CNN.com Special Report - Darfur in Danger
Colonialism and Independence: Nigeria as a Case Study
Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Change and Hymnody
Dying in Darfur: The Ongoing Genocide in the Sudan
Elephant Poaching, Ivory Wars
Emmanuel Jal
Exploring Africa
Frontline - Ambush in Modadishu
Frontline - The Crime of Genocide
Frontline - The Ghosts of Rwanda
Frontline - On Our Watch: Darfur
Frontline - The Triumph of Evil
Frontline -_Valentina's Nightmare
Global Connections: Liberia
History of Africans in America, Africa and in the Diaspora
Human Rights Video Project - Lost Boys of Sudan
Idi Amin Dada: Despotic President of Uganda in the 1970s
Idi Amin Dies
Invisible Children - Video
Kwame Nkrumah
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
The Living Africa
Lost Boys of Sudan
Lost, But Found
National Museum of African Art
Nigerian Oil
Organization of African Unity
Orphans of Rwanda
PBS - Hopes on the Horizon: Africa in the 1990s
Peace Corps - World Wise School - Water in Africa
POV - Rain in a Dry Land
Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through Eastern Congo
Rwandan Genocide Survivor Recalls Horror
Rwanda: How the Genocide Happened
Searching for Jacob: Scott Pelley Reports on the Genocide in Darfur
The Story of Africa - Independence
Sudan: A Historical Perspective
World History Archives_ The History of Africa
The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Understanding the Darfur Conflict

Apartheid in South Africa

African National Congress Home Page
Apartheid in the Electronic Passport
Apartheid and South Africa
The Apartheid in South Africa
Apartheid on Yahoo!
Bill of Rights in Action - South Africa: Revolution at the Ballor Box
Brief History of South Africa
Computers and Apartheid
General Strike in South Africa, June 1961
Historical Documents Archive of the African National Congress
The History of Apartheid in South Africa
Nelson Mandela Biography
South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
South African Politics
The South African System of Apartheid

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Americas

About Panama
The Border
The Devil's Miner
Evita Peron Historical Research Foundation
Finding Chile's Disappeared
Haiti: National Security
HI 216 Group Projects: Latin America since 1826
HI 453/553 Group Projects: US-Latin America Relations
The Impact of Sandinistas on Nicaragua
The Iran-Contra Affair, 1983-1988
Juan Peron and Argentina
Landless Voices: The Sights and Voices of Dispossession
Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC
Latin America - Socialist Revolution and Latin American Unity
Mapping History - Latin America
Mexico: From Empire to Revolution
Mrs. Ruland's World History WWW Resources - Cuba
Operation Just Cause
Organization of American States
Peopling North America: Population Movements and Migration
POV - Borders
POV - The Fall of Fujimori
POV - The Judge and the General
POV - Rain in a Dry Land
Proud Parent Peru Touts Potatoes - Chicago Tribune
The Sandinista Years, 1979-90
The September 11 Digital Archive
Socialist Revolution and Latin American Unity
Walsh Iran/Contra Report

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Asia

General

Asian History Resources
AsiaSource_ AsiaPROFILES - A resource of the Asia Society
AskAsia Homepage
Cambodia in Modern History_ Beauty and Darkness
Cambodian Information Center (CIC) Homepage
Chennai Centre for China Studies
Contemporary Japan
East Asia in World History
East Timor
Emperors of the Sangoku, the “Three Kingdoms,” of India, China, & Japan
Encyclopaedia of the Orient
Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
Kim Jong Il Video
The Legacy of Pol Pot
The Pathet Lao
Mrs. Ruland's World History WWW Resources - Korean War
Mrs. Ruland's World History WWW Resources - Vietnam War
Picture Paradise: Asia-Pacific Photography, 1840s-1940s
Taking a Stand: The Forgotten Genocide - Cambodia
TIMEasia.com - The Next Asian Journey
Vietnam: The Next Generation

Chinese Revolution and Beyond

Aging in Contemporary China
Best of History Web Sites - China and Tibet
China Achieves a Modern State
China: An Emerging Superpower
China From the Inside
China Policy Institute: Can China Really Become the Next Superpower?
China_ Roots of Revolution
China 1900 to 1976
China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement
China Politics Links
China's Reality Check on Long March
Chinese Communist Revolution on Yahoo!
Chinese Cultural Studies: The Death of the Last Emperor's Last Eunuch, 1996
Christianity Fever
Does the Tiger Eat Her Cubs?
The East Asia Collection
Exploring China
Fairbank Chinese History Library_ Rob Gray
Frontline - Dreams of Tibet
Frontline - The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Frontline - The Tank Man
Frontline - Young and Restless in China
History of China
Mao: The Unknown Story
Modern China
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center
NPR: Rewriting History
People's Republic of China
The People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China at 50
The Rising Sea Dragon in Asia
Searching for China_ a Full WebQuest
Serve the People! Images of Daily Life in China during the Cultural Revolution
Taiwan, Republic of China
Tiananmen-1989
The Treasures of China
Two Chinas
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
Wide Angle: PBS - The People's Court

India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

BBC - History - From Empire to Independence: The British Raj in India 1858-1947
BBC - India and Pakistan 07
BBC - News - India Rising
Bill of Rights in Action - Bringing Down an Empire: Gandhi and Civil Disobedience
Country Studies - Area Handbook Series - Bangladesh
Digital South Asia Library
The Electronic Passport to the Indian Subcontinent
The French Institute of Pondicherry
Gandhi
Gandhi
Gandhi Speaks Through Clothing
History of India
India: Asia's Other Superpower Breaks Out
India on the Rise
India and Pakistan
India and Pakistan: On the Brink
India and Pakistan: On the Nuclear Threshold
Indian Nationalism and the Gandhi Murders
Indian, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka Movies, 1929-1947
India 1900 to 1947
Kashmir: Emerging Crisis
Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service
Manas: History and Politics of India
Nuclear Politics in South Asia
An Oral History of Indian and Pakistani Independence 1947
The Political History of Pakistan
A Politician Above Politics
Quest for Peace and Diplomacy_ a WebQuest on the India-Pakistan Conflict
South Asian History
The Story of India - PBS
Struggle for the Soul of Pakistan
50 Glorious Years of Indian Independence

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Europe

Balkan Crisis

Bosnia HomePage at Caltech
Bosnian Conflict at Yahoo!
Crisis in Kosovo_ Web Resources for Classroom Lessons
Frontline - War in Europe
Kosovo War Crimes
NATO & Kosovo_ Operation Joint Guard
Other Balkans Resources
Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
Understanding the Balkan Conflict
Yugoslavia - Atlapedia Online

Other

BBC - News - Muslims in Europe: Country Guide
Berlin 2000
Bill of Rights in Action - Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe and Russia
Bill of Rights in Action - Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe Today
Bill of Rights in Action - German Skinheads: Are the Nazis Making a Comeback?
Countering Jihadi Terrorism in the UK
Did Germany Have a Revolution ih 1989?
Eastern Europe: The Multicultural Arena
Europe in Retrospect
European Integration and the EU Institutions
European Unification
Frontline: War in Europe
History of Modern Germany
History of Modern Russia
The IRA Is No Longer a Threat
Islam in Europe
Muslims in Europe
The National Archives Exhibitions & Learning online Citizenship
National Review Online - The Same Old, Same Old...
NEH Summer Seminar Projects: Post-Wall Germany
The New Europe
Peace at Last?
Reflections (Library of Congress Exhibition)

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Middle East

General

Mrs. Ruland's US History Internet Resource — International Issues

Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia
America at a Crossroads
Armenian Genocide
Very powerful and disturbing video.
Best of History Web Sites - Lebanon
Best of History Web Sites - Middle East History
Best of History Web Sites - Post Cold War Era
Best of History Web Sites - Terrorism and 9/11
Bill of Rights in Action: The Rise of Islamist Terrorist Groups
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Cold War Through Desert Storm
Conflicts in the Middle East
Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Change and Hymnody
Dubai Photo Gallery
Frontline - Muslims
Global Connection: The Middle East
The Global War on Terrorist Finance
The Iran Documentation Project
Iran Naming Dispute
Iranian Revolution on Yahoo!
IslamiCity.com - Culture
Islam, the Modern World, and the West
Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith
Jihad: The Genocide of the Armenians - Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
League of Arab States
MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project
Middle East
Middle East History and Resources
Middle East and Islamic Studies
Middle East and Jewish Studies Internet Resources
Middle East Resources
The Middle East 1917 to 1973
A New Generation of Jihad Seekers
NPR: The Partisans of Ali - A History of Shia Faith and Politics
Palestinian Heritage Committee
Precarious Lebanon
Saudi Aramco World
Sects and Offshoots - Muslim Hope
The September 11 Digital Archive
Shi'a
The Shia-Sunni Divide: Myths and Reality
The Shi'ite Factor in Gulf Politics
Sufism, Sufis, and Sufi Orders: Sufism's Many Paths
TIMEasia.com - The Next Asian Journey
Times of Trouble: Flashpoints in Modern Lebanese History
Understanding the Middle East - US News Classroom
US and the Middle East_ the Folly of Intervention

Arab-Israeli Conflict

Arab Israeli Conflict
Arab-Israel Conflict in Maps
Arabs and Palestinians in Israeli Textbooks
Avalon Project - Hamas Covenant 1988
BBC - History - The Hidden Story of Partition and its Legacies
BBC - News - A History of Conflict
Camp David Accords -- Framework for Peace
Challenge, Intrigue, Perspective_ Process to Peace
Children of Abraham
CNN Specials - Mideast: Land of Conflict'
The History Guy_ Arab-Israeli Wars
History of the Palestine Problem
Is Peace Out of Reach?
Israel DBQ
Israel exhibit
Israel Resources
Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Israeli Palestinian Conflict
Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage
A Land Without a People for a People Without a Land
The Mideast Conflict: A Look at the Region's History
Mid East Forum "A Land Without a People for a People Without a Land"
MidEast Web - Middle East Peace Process Historical Background
NewsHour Extra: Israel-Syria Engage in New Peace Negotiations
The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Palestinian_Israeli Conflict
Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
Six Day War on Yahoo!
Suez War of 1956 on Yahoo!
USS Liberty

Iraq

al-Zawraa: Muj TV
Animated Flash Map of Iraq War Casualties
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI)
Cartoonists from Around the World on the New Iraq
The Choices Program _ Crisis with Iraq
CNN.com Specials - War in Iraq
Frontline - al-Qaeda's new Front: The Salafist Movement
Frontline - Bush's War
Frontline - The Gulf War
Frontline - Last Battle of the Gulf War
Frontline - The Long Road to War
Frontline - The Lost Year in Iraq
Frontline - Spying on Saddam
Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds
Iran-Iraq War on Yahoo!
Iraq Country Analysis Brief
Learn About Iraq_ AFSC
Office of the Iraq Programme Oil for Food
Persian Gulf Fact Sheet
The Record on CURVEBALL
The Status of Nuclear Inspections in Iraq: An Update
Understanding the U.S.-Iraq Crisis
U.S. Department of State_ Iraq Country Information
WebQuest - Perspectives on the US/Iraq Conflict

Afghanistan and 9/11

Afghanistan
Afghanistan Online
America Attacked: 9/11
Debunking the 9/11 Myths
Frontline: Hunting Bin Laden
Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Afghanistan
Frontline: Return of the Taliban
The History Guy_ The Afghan Civil War (1978-Present)
The Kite Runner
A Life Revealed
The Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan
National Geographic - Afghanistan: Land in Crisis
September 11 Attacks_ Background and Aftermath
The US and the Global Coalition Against Terrorism, Sept. 2001-Dec. 2003
The War on Terrorism: Afghanistan and the Taliban
Weblinks on the War in Afghanistan
9/11 Attacks on America

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Oceania

Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore
Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula
Traditional Hula at 2005 Merry Monarch Competition
Contemporary Hula at 2005 Merry Monarch Competition
Oceania Society and Culture
Picture Paradise: Asia-Pacific Photography, 1840s-1940s

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