History Channel Specials

Key Items to discuss:

• Karl Benz to Mercedes Benz and the role of Daimler

• Chrysler...the fastest car?

• Rolls and Royce team up, and get competition from Bentley

• Henry Ford builds the Model-T and Model-A for the American people - Motown, Detroit

  • Factories Then and Now

  • Top cars sold by decade

  • 1950s Autos

  • Future of Ford

• Ferdinand Porsche takes over at Benz and eventually builds the 'Volks' Wagon for Hitler

  • Rise and Fall of V-Dub

• Honda versus Toyo(t)a: A motorized bicycle

  • Honda Super Cub

  • Toyota Corolla to Prius

• Overall history of autos

• The Future of Cars - Debate the question.

Key Items to discuss:

• Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi...a battle via advertising

• The King of Fast Food and it's cultural/economic effect: Burger King vs. KFC vs. McDonald's vs. Domino's vs. Pizza Hut

• Hershey brings chocolate to the masses

• Frito-Lay, Kraft and Heinz and the American Gov't need for food...and powder cheese?

• Innovations from:

  • Kraft processed cheese

  • Heinz bottles and Campbell cans

  • Lays packaged chips

  • Nabisco and the...Oreo?

  • Swanson Frozen Foods

  • Kellogg and Post create a Breakfast Cereal, changing our nutrition standards

Key Items to discuss:

• WWI leads to new Titans: DuPont, Chrysler, JP Morgan, Ford and Boeing

• A New Deal for America - FDR and his social, economic and political effect

• WWII: America's industrial might creates a war machine, confronts a global threat and Patriotism vs. Profit?

Key Items to discuss:

Answer using the Template:

Question/Evidence/Answer

• Rebels

• Revolution

• Westward

• Division

• Civil War

• Heartland

• Cities

• Boom

• Bust

• WWII

• Boomers

• Millennium

Key Items to discuss:

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison vs. Nikola Tesla

• Henry Ford

• J.P. Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

• Teddy Roosevelt

• George Westinghouse

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Charles Schwab

Key Items to discuss:

• Motorcycles: Harley and Davidson team up

• Telephone connects the coasts

• On the Air with the Radio and TV...social and economic...and political effect

• Power tools change human capabilities...

• Revolutionizing Home Tech and Housework - social and economic effect

• Tesla vs. Marconi

• Farming with power...for the world

• The Plane...the fastest way to travel...and fight wars.