World History
Below you will find C-SPAN Classroom resources relating to the topics and categories listed above. These resources are organized in reverse chronological order. Click on each title to expand the section and view the featured resources.
21st Century Resources
21st Century Resources
Video Clip: Wagner Group Rebellion (12:12)
Bell Ringer: 2023 Invasion of the Brazilian Congress (4:24)
Lesson Plan: The War in Ukraine (8 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Origins of the Syrian Civil War (5:47)
Bell Ringer: The History and Rise of ISIS (4:55)
Bell Ringer: Kim Jong Un and Stability in North Korea (4:47)
Bell Ringer: Suppression of Protests in Iran (4:30)
On This Day: 2008 Financial Crisis (9 Clips)
On This Day: 7/7 London Explosions (5 Clips)
Video Clip: North Korea and South Korea Agree to End War (4:39)
Bell Ringer: The War on Terror (4:14)
On This Day: Iraq War (8 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Vladimir Putin and Russia (1:52)
Lesson Plan: Genocide (9 Clips)
Video Clip: IAEA Report on Iranian Nuclear Activity (4:08)
Late 20th Century Resources
Late 20th Century Resources
Lesson Plan: U.S. Intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo (6 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Creating Ulitsa Sezam - Sesame Street Program in Russia (11 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Operation Desert Storm (7:11)
Bell Ringer: The Russian Constitution (6:52)
Video Clip: The Berlin Wall (7:21)
Bell Ringer: 1991 Soviet Coup D'état Attempt (4:48)
On This Day: Nelson Mandela Freed (5 Clips)
On This Day: Tiananmen Square (4 Clips)
On This Day: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Glasnost and Perestroika (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Soviet Media's Portrait of the United States (6:53)
Bell Ringer: Soviet Internal Propaganda 1985 Film (8:51)
Bell Ringer: Iran Hostage Crisis (7:19)
Bell Ringer: The Invasion of Cyprus (2:16)
Bell Ringer: The Rule of Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin (3:33)
Bell Ringer: Paris Peace Accords (3 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Operation Babylift: The Children of the Vietnam War (11:59)
On This Day: OPEC Declares Oil Embargo (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: History of the Russian Salyut (7:18)
Bell Ringer: The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (3:59)
Lesson Plan: China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (8 Clips & Slides)
Bell Ringer: Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Union (2:58)
Bell Ringer: The Nigerian Civil War (2:30)
Bell Ringer: The Cuban Missile Crisis (10:29)
Lesson Plan: The Cold War and Global Literature (9 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Bay of Pigs Invasion (7:11)
On This Day: Cuban Revolution (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: 1956 Suez Crisis (14:52)
On This Day: The Launch of Sputnik (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: North Korean Leader Kim Il-sung (3:18)
Bell Ringer: Remembering the Legacy of the Korean War (Forgotten War) (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Legacy of the Korean War (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Remembering the Korean War, Prisoners of War and the Chinese Invasion (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Korean War Legacy from the Perspective of South Korea (2 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Major Events of the Cold War (14 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Henrietta Lacks (5:12)
Bell Ringer: The Creation of Israel (2 Clips)
On This Day: Marshall Plan (4 Clips)
Lesson Plan: Events Leading to the Building of the Berlin Wall (5 Clips)
Lesson Plan: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (10 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Partition of India (3:49)
On This Day: The United Nations Charter (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Goals and Origins of the World Bank (3:30)
Bell Ringer: The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (7:09)
Early 20th Century Resources
Lesson Plan: Role of the World Health Organization (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Division of Germany and Berlin after World War II (5:37)
Bell Ringer: Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The End of World War II and the Beginnings of the Cold War in Europe (5:00)
World War II
On This Day: Holocaust Remembrance Day (11 Clips)
Video Clip: Japanese Surrender at the End of World War II (3:54)
Lesson Plan: Was using the atomic bomb on Japan necessary for ending World War II? (8 Clips)
Video Clip: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (11:50)
Video Clip: End of World War II in Europe Newsreel (3:49)
Bell Ringer: World War II: Battle of the Bulge (10:11)
Video Clip: D-Day Vignette (28:47)
On This Day: The Battle of Stalingrad (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: German Plans for the Battle of Britain (3:22)
Bell Ringer: Battle at Dunkirk (13:21)
Lesson Plan: World War II Battle of the Atlantic (12 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Battle of Dunkirk and Winston Churchill (5:24)
Bell Ringer: Charles de Gaulle and the French Resistance (2 clips)
Bell Ringer: The Fall of Paris During World War Two (5:33)
On This Day: Germany's Invasion of Poland (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Munich Pact and the Unfulfilled Promise of Peace (5:32)
Lesson Plan: Oral Histories of the Holocaust (8 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Kristallnacht (14:15)
Bell Ringer: Hitler's Approach to the Press (2:41)
Bell Ringer: Benito Mussolini in Italy (1:38)
Bell Ringer: Spanish Civil War (10:56)
Bell Ringer: Francisco Franco of Spain (2:54)
Bell Ringer: The Nuremberg Laws (4:48)
Bell Ringer: Japanese Brutality During World War II (3:12)
Bell Ringer: The Lead Up to the Japanese Invasion of China (6:45)
Bell Ringer: The Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Outlawing of War (4:38)
Bell Ringer: Mass Production of Penicillin (11:50)
Bell Ringer: Albert Einstein (3:39)
Lesson Plan: Julius Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: The Establishment of the Soviet Union (1:21)
Bell Ringer: American and British Suffrage Movements (14:41)
Lesson Plan: Trailblazer Althea Gibson (5 Clips)
World War I
On This Day: Treaty of Versailles (6 Clips)
Video Clip: World War I: The Argonne Forest (7:21)
Bell Ringer: World War I: Battle of Saint-Mihiel (6:56)
Bell Ringer: World War I: Battle of the Somme (17:00)
Lesson Plan: World War I: U.S. Military in France in 1918 (4 Clips)
Bell Ringer: World War I: The Zimmermann Telegram (8:24)
Bell Ringer: World War I Artillery (2:31)
Bell Ringer: Military Aviation during World War I (3:44)
Bell Ringer: Russia Before the 1917 Russian Revolution (4:35)
On This Day: The Sinking of the Lusitania (7 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Alliances and the Beginning of World War I in Europe (3:41)
Bell Ringer: National Identity and the Beginnings of World War I (3:44)
Lesson Plan: World War I Plastic Surgery (22 Clips & Slides)
Pre World War I
Video Clip: The Armenian Genocide (4:30)
Bell Ringer: Evolution of Middle Eastern States during the 20th Century (5:42)
Bell Ringer: The Panama Canal (6:45)
Lesson Plan: Panama Canal (1 Clip & Slides)
19th Century Resources
Bell Ringer: Population Growth in 19th Century Europe (4:17)
Lesson Plan: The Spanish-American War (9 Clip)
Bell Ringer: Charles Darwin (2:37)
Lesson Plan: Charles Darwin's Experiments (6 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Friedrich Nietzsche (5:40)
Bell Ringer: Lord William Thomson Kelvin (6:45)
Bell Ringer: The Meiji Restoration and Japanese Modernization (2:31)
Bell Ringer: The Burlingame Treaty with China (3:17)
On This Day: Cinco de Mayo (5 Clips)
Bell Ringer: 19th Century Irish Immigration (6:45)
Video Clip: Trade in Canton, China (4:07)
Bell Ringer: America and the Greek War of Independence (3:20)
Bell Ringer: Child Labor during the Industrial Revolution in England (3:40)
Bell Ringer: Great Famine in Ireland (20:12)
Bell Ringer: Napoleon, Wellington and the Battle of Waterloo (2:08)
Bell Ringer: Napoleon and the Invasion of Russia (10:12)
Pre 19th Century Resources
1492-1800
Bell Ringer: The Haitian Revolution (2 Clips)
Bell Ringer: Edward Jenner and the Smallpox Vaccine (5:11)
Bell Ringer: The Storming of the Bastille and the French Revolution (5:39)
Bell Ringer: Enlightenment and Classical Ideas in 18th Century America (4:58)
Bell Ringer: Jean- Jacques Rousseau and the Power to Rule (2:56)
Bell Ringer: David Hume (4:29)
Bell Ringer: Thomas Hobbes (6:07)
Bell Ringer: John Locke (3:38)
Bell Ringer: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine (2:59)
Video Clip: Mary Wollstonecraft (2:51)
Bell Ringer: Social Contract (1:12)
Bell Ringer: Denis Diderot and the Encyclopédie (4:39)
Bell Ringer: Peter the Great (2:24)
Bell Ringer: England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the English Bill of Rights (3:21)
Bell Ringer: National Sovereignty and the Treaty of Westphalia (3:16)
Bell Ringer: Galileo Galilei (9:45)
Bell Ringer: Copernicus (4:55)
Bell Ringer: Leonardo da Vinci (7:44)
Bell Ringer: Early Maps of the World (2:56)
Bell Ringer: Explorer Robert de La Salle (9:59)
Bell Ringer: Spanish Explorer and Conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon (3:21)
Bell Ringer: Spanish Settlement of St. Augustine in 1565 (6:32)
Bell Ringer: Hernando De Soto (4:27)
Bell Ringer: The Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs (3:21)
Bell Ringer: Francisco Pizarro (2:35)
Bell Ringer: Ferdinand Magellan (3:36)
Bell Ringer: Amerigo Vespucci (4:55)
Bell Ringer: Christopher Columbus and Early Atlantic Exploration (10:57)
Bell Ringer: Agriculture and the Columbian Exchange (5:16)
Lesson Plan: Early Explorers and Expeditions (8 Clips)
Pre-1492 and Ancient World History
Video Clip: The Bubonic Plague and the Origin of the Word Quarantine (2:12)
Bell Ringer: England's Tudor Monarchs (3:36)
Bell Ringer: Genghis Khan (14:27)
Bell Ringer: Magna Carta and Individual Rights (3:12)
Bell Ringer: Mecca and the Hajj (3:27)
Bell Ringer: The Sunni and Shiite Divide (4:30)
Bell Ringer: Charlemagne (6:07)
Bell Ringer: Attila the Hun, Pope Leo and Diplomacy (1:36)
Bell Ringer: Alexander the Great (5:59)
Bell Ringer: Ancient Rome (5:16)
Bell Ringer: Archimedes (2:07)
Bell Ringer: Ancient Greek Empire (6:35)
Bell Ringer: The Battle of Marathon (1:03)
Bell Ringer: The Greek Origins of Democracy (5:50)
Bell Ringer: The Ancient Greek Origins of Natural Law and Reason (5:05)
Bell Ringer: The Birth of Politics - Greece and Rome (7:23)
Bell Ringer: Confucius (4:26)
Bell Ringer: The Evolution of the term Neanderthal (2:32)