Scenes from the 1939 World’s Fair
For this project, you are not 10th grade history students at Friends Central, but members of the World’s Fair Corporation for a specific country. Your task is as follows:
Examine 8-10 primary sources (2-3 per category) related to Arts & Culture, News & Print Media, and Politics & Trade from the Interwar Period (1918-1938) for your country
Write an annotated bibliography for each source
Develop an artifact based on your research to present at the Friends’ Central 1939 World’s Fair
Write a 2-3 paragraph justification statement explaining your artifact with an annotated bibliography
Submit an individual reflection on the group work process and what you learned
Arts & Culture:
Politics & Trade:
News & Print Media
Use the Blackburn Library Website to examine the New York Times and the London Times. Conduct a search for the nation of interest within the dates 1918-1938. You may want to refine your search based on some of your other sources.
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Brazil:
Britain:
Canada:
China:
Czechoslovakia:
Egypt:
Ethiopia:
France:
Haiti:
Mexico
Poland:
Persia/Iran:
South Africa:
Thailand/Siam:
Turkey:
United States of America:
U.S.S.R: