Friday+Facts+in+Five

Select an event from the list and prepare a five-ten minute presentation. Use text, videos, images, or audio when appropriate to enhance your presentation. Include information from three sources and include a bibliography. Finally, post your presentation on the AP Wiki under the Friday Facts in Five Presentations tab. You may select an event not included on the list with instructor approval. --Harper’s Ferry, 1959 --Kent State, 1970 **Air & Space ** For thousands of years, man looked up to the sky and dreamed of flying like birds and walking on the moon. In the 20th century, man reached both of these long-sought-after dreams.
 * Friday Facts in Five **
 *  [|The First Airplane Crash]
 *  [|First Animal in Space]
 *  [|First Man in Space]
 *  [|First Man on the Moon]
 *  [|Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster]

**Crimes & Scandals ** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The 20th century was filled with stories of gangsters, bombings, massacres, and genocide. Find out more about these sordid escapades.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Columbine Massacre]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Fatty Arbuckle Scandal]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Jonestown Massacre]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Leopold and Loeb Kill for a Thrill]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Mona Lisa Stolen!]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Munich Olympics Massacre]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Murder of Rasputin]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Oklahoma City Bombing]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|St. Valentine's Day Massacre]

**<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 17px;">Disasters & Tragedy ** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Natural or man-made, disasters are destructive. They can wreak havoc and cause fear. Find out what horrible disasters occurred within the 20th century. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">From the discovery of penicillin to the AIDS epidemic, learn more about the medical advances and deadly diseases that occurred throughout the 20th century. **<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 17px;">World War I ** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">The First World War, originally called the Great War, raged from 1914 to 1918. Mostly fought in western Europe in muddy, bloody trenches, WWI saw the introduction of the machine gun and poison gas into battle.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Chernobyl]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Galveston Hurricane 1900
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Great Smog of 1952]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Great Depression]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Hindenburg Explodes]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Mt. St. Helens Erupts]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Mysterious Explosion in Siberia]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Sinking of the Titanic]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Stock Market Crash of 1929]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Tangshan Earthquake]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 17px;">Medical Advances & Issues **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|History of the American Red Cross]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Mengele's Medical Experiments on Twins at Auschwitz]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Typhoid Mary]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|World's First Test-Tube Baby]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|World War I: A History]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Timeline of WWI]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Pictures of World War I]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Christmas Truce of 1914]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|"Over There" - Famous Song of WWI]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Sinking of the Lusitania]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Versailles Treaty]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Zimmermann Telegram]

**<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 17px;">World War II ** <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">A truly world war which lasted from 1939 to 1945. The countries of the world aligned with either the Axis powers or the Allies and battled in a total war.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Timeline of WWII]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Major Battles of WWII]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|WWII Starts]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Attack on Pearl Harbor]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Hiroshima and Nagasaki]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Japanese Soldier in Jungle for 29 Years]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Navajo Code Talkers]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Posters of WWII]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|WWII Memorial]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;"> [|Pictures of D-Day]

**<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 17px;">Supreme Court Decisions ** __**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">RESOURCES: **__ Historical Events American History
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Schenck v United States (1919)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Tinker v Des Moines (1969)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Roe v Wade (1973)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Miranda v Arizona (1966)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Plessey v Ferguson (1896)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Brown v Board of Ed. Topeka Kansas (1954)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Marbury v. Madison
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Gideon v. Wainright
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">McCulloch v. Maryland
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Wisconsin v. Yoder
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px;">Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
 * <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 115%;">South Dakota v. Dole