Examining Greek history as Mythological Historians we discovered how the Greek Gods influenced the conflicts of the Ancient Greek History. We will now examine modern history and how it would have been impacted by modern mythological figures, Superheroes. Your task will be to examine a turning point in history and create a website that details this event and determines how things might have developed differently if a Superhero(es) had been involved.

Turning Points in History

Air and Space

• Early Developments in Aviation: Wright Brothers' Test Flights 
• Flight and Aeronautical Research in Outer Space: Records of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, 1954-1991
• Americans in Space

Atomic Energy

• Regulation of the Nuclear Power Industry
• Creation of the Manhattan Project 
• The Atomic Bomb
• The Atomic Bomb and the Cold War

Business and Industry

• Inventions (choose one vulcanized rubber, automobile, telegraph, telephone) 
• The Rise of Big Business

Civil Rights

• Antebellum Period: Slave Cases
• Woman Suffrage Movement
• Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
• Desegregation of the Armed Forces 
• Leaders in the Struggle for Civil Rights

Early U.S. History

• The Colonial Period
• Creating a New Nation: War for Independence
• The American Civil War

Environment and Land 

• Conservation and Preservation

Foreign Affairs

• Herbert Hoover Invents the International Relief Organization 
• Berlin Airlift
• Marshall Plan 
• Truman Doctrine
• The Cuban Missile Crisis 

Immigration

• Immigration: Naturalization Records and Chinese Exclusion Records

The Kennedy Assassination 

• The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Society and Social Reform

• Better Housing for Everyone: Herbert Hoover's Dream for America
• Better Health Care for Children: The American Child Health Association
• Medical Experiments on Human Subjects--The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
• Lou Henry Hoover and the Girl Scout Success Story

World Wars I and II

• Sinking of the Lusitania
• Treatment of Disabled World War I Veterans
• Keeping America Out of WWII: Verne Marshall and Gerald P. Nye
• United States Declares War on Japan

Follow the link attached to your name in order to create your webpage:

Mrs. Ashbrook

Asbury, Rhea

Barrow, Ryan

Carreras, Nichole

Cather, Chloe

Champagne, Holly

Cleary, Jasmine

Cochran, Lauren

Esbin, Taylor

Gilliland, Kaitlyn

Gray, Austin

Henderson, Ryan

Houston, Kindall

Hutchinson, Ashley

Jones, Emily

Laird, Carly

Lambert, Destiny

Marshall, Hayden

Murray, Kyle

Nickle, Andrea

Palmer, Erin

Plourde, Tatiana

Ricci, Ashley

Sparks, Kerstie

Speck, Keegan

Tortora, Austin

Young, Alyssa

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