Opposing Views of Vietnam
In this lesson, students will understand Richard Nixon’s policies concerning the Vietnam War in 1969, including “Vietnamization” and also debate The main arguments of Vietnam veteran John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in 1971 in opposition to the continuation of the war.

Communism and Containment
This guide provides some background information and student activities that teach about the Cold War. The main focus, however, is on the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. containment of Communism. Lessons are included in the "Teacher Guide" section.

Exploring How American Presidents Have Dealt with Crises
In this lesson, students will research past United States presidents’ methods of confronting crises. They then write a State of the Union Address for that president in historical context.

Watergate and the Constitution
This NARA lesson plan gives teachers a chance to explain the Watergate incident to students. The Teacher's guide has three different activities that stimulate discussions of the Constitution and the legal system.

Carter as President and as Ex-President
President's often outline their goals in their inaugural address to the nation.  In this lesson from Discovery, students analyze this address to evaluate former President Carter.

Balancing Budgets: From Reagan to Today
The concept of a balanced federal budget has attracted much attention from the 1980s through today. In this lesson, students will explore the approaches that have been considered and implemented to solve this problem.
 

Watergate
A CNN/Time site which includes all types of multimedia.

American Memory
A gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

Digital History
This site provides links to American history web sites by period and provide historical overviews, readings, primary source documents, maps, cartoons, teaching resources, and audio-visual resources.

The additional resources below are by the POTUS (Presidents of the United States) website, provided by Internet Public Library.  POTUS provides viewers with biographical information, image galleries, administration appointments, and numerous links for all of our nation's Chief Executives.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Gerald Rudolph Ford

James Earl Carter

Ronald Wilson Reagan

George Herbert Walker Bush

Illusion and Delusion
Photographs of the Watergate years.

Nixon
A biography with pictures. 

Gerald R. Ford Museum On-line Watergate Exhibit
This exhibit immerses the visitor in one of the most critical constitutional crises in the nation's history.

Watergate
Presented by the newspaper that broke the story, this 25^th-anniversary web site contains interviews with Ben Bradlee and Bob Woodward, as well as links to Key Players and Reforms resulting from Watergate.

Nixon Tapes, National Security Archive
Primary documents and audio selections dealing with the relationship between President Richard Nixon and the former president of Mexico.

Pentagon Papers
Secrets, Lies, and Audiotapes the Nixon tapes and the Supreme Court tape, briefs and opinions.

POTUS (Presidents of the United States)
In this resource you will find background information on each of the presidents.
 

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