WORLD WAR I RESEARCH SITE
WORLD WAR I RESEARCH SITE
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to Ms. Weid's World War I research haven. Here you should be able
to find a wealth of knowledge on many WWI topics.
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Chronology of events in WWI : Detailed chronology of events in WWI, using people and events.
***** The First World War***** : If it's about WWI, it can probably be found here. START HERE FIRST!!
BBC - History - World War One Movies : If you need a feel for the era.
Learning Curve | The Great War : Fantastic general site.
Conduct and Character of WWI : Brief but good overview of the war. If you know nothing about WWI, you could gain some basic information here.
IWM Collections On-Line: Site Map : Great site with coberage of war on land, at sea, and in the air. Also war and peace, civilians, prisoners, and propaganda.
World War I : This is a HUGE link site. I would definitely look here for my topic.
Knowledge Network Explorer Search Results - A site of World War I links.
Technological War: World War I & Modern Society
U.S. Marines in the First World War : Lots of interesting information.
History and Lore of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion : History of a select group of Marines. Has some ** PRIMARY SOURCE material.
An A to Z of World War One : Set up like a dictionary.
World War I Digital Library - Electronic Publications
Western Front Association - U.S. Branch: WWI Links Central : Links galore... to everything.
World War I : EXCEPTIONAL link site.
World War I links : Wow, lots here!
BBC - History - World War One and BBC News | World War I | The Great War: 80 years on
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century : From PBS... so it has to be good.
First World War.com: A multimedia history of World War One: Fabulous site for everything about WWI. Well worth your time.
The Great War Table of Contents Page
WWI Links : Nice collection of sites.
World War I, The Great War : Another site collection.
Tom Morgan's HELLFIRE CORNER - The Great War - 1914 - 1918 : Links to some good web pages
The Doughboy Center : Excellent site with material on AEF including, commanding, planning/organization of AEF, major battles, naval and air operations, weapons, equipment and rations, firsthand accounts, poetry, art and music.
Online Bookshelves: World War I : Info about American troops.
The Old Contemptible's Great War Website: A little of everything.
The Western Front Association : Lots of information of all types on the Western Front.
The Long, Long Trail : Covers various aspects of WWI from a British point of view. Contains some ** PRIMARY SOURCE material.
Personal site of Jack Turner : Covers various aspects of WWI. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
A Personal Look at Basic Training : ** PRIMARY SOURCE
Vintage World War I Audio : This section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, speeches and comedy skits from the World War One era, most recorded between 1914-18, although some were recorded before and afterwards. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
World War I Photos and Footage : Lots of present-day photos of WWI sites. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
The Great War: An Interactive Timeline
The Great War Through Maps & Locations
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TIMELINE: 1839-1914 The Long Fuse
TIMELINE: The July Crisis, 1914
The Learning Curve | Great War | The Causes
TIMELINE: 28-Jun-1914 - Assassination in Sarajevo
Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand
History House: Balkan Blunders : The assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Toward World War I in Europe to 1908
A Joyful Leap into World War I, 1911-1914
AN OUTLINE AND SURVEY COURSE OF WORLD WAR I
World War I, The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
World War I, The Narodna Odbrana - The Black Hand
The Balkan causes of World War I
The Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia, July 23,1914 and the Serbian Reply
World War I, The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams
United States Enters World War I
Triple Entente and Triple Alliance
The Road To War: The Triple Alliance and The Road To War: The Triple Entente
Britain & Germany: The Naval Arms Race
Summary of Alliances and Agreements, 1879-1907
The Dual Alliance between German and Austria Hungary (1879)
Trenches on the Web - Timeline Summary: Summer 1914
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Laws of War: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Entente Cordiale Between England and France - 1904: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Anglo-Russian Entente - 1907: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Sykes-Picot Agreement: 1916; ** PRIMARY SOURCE
1914-1920:
Diplomacy of the First World War
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Encyclopaedia of the First World War: War at Sea
Royal Navy Submarine Index Page
German Imperial Naval one : Excellent site.
Hochseeflotte History : Excellent technical and service history information on German warships of WW1
World War 1 Naval Combat - Great War at Sea
World War One - The Maritime War
Royal Naval Division, British Royal Marines:1916 - 1918
Trenches on the Web - Armory: U-boats: Assassins of the Seas
Submarine Warfare - The Online Casebook
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
U-boat Attack, 1916: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
British Submarines in the Dardanelles in 1914
British submarines in World War One
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War :This on-line edition of Admiral Reinhard Scheer's World War One memoirs is based directly on the original, published in 1920. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
Robert Whitehead: Self propelling Torpedo and Self propelling torpedo - Robert Whitehead
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RMS Luistania : Great details about ship.
LUISTANIA ONLINE: Cool site.
PBS Online - Lost Liners - Luistania
Click2Disasters - The Luistania
The Luistania Disguised? Unraveling the Mystery
First World War.com - Feature Articles - RMS Luistania: The Fateful Voyage
Sinking of the Luistania from the German point of view.
The Sinking of the Luistania: 1915
Luistania : Brief but has some good photos.
Luistania - The Churchill Centre
Kinsale Museum :The RMS Luistania
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, Protest Over the Sinking of the Luistania: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
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More Uniforms : site on war uniforms, insignias and medals
US Enlisted Uniforms 1900 - 1918
World War I Uniforms and Groupings USA
DOUGHBOYS: World War I-Uniforms
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The Learning Curve | Great War | The Trench Experience
Trench warfare in World War One
Take a Virtual 3-D Tour of Trench Warfare (BBC History)
BBC - History - Life in The Trenches Panorama
The Learning Curve | Great War | The Trench Experience : Cool site.
Trench Warfare and The Trench System and Trench Diagrams
The Trenches at Messines 1916-17
British Trench Warfare 1917-1918
Trench Warfare in World War One
Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Trench War
Memories of trench life (** PRIMARY SOURCE) and Food in the trenches
George Ramage's Introduction to Trench Warfare : ** PRIMARY SOURCE
The Use of Poison Gas : An account by Will Irwin, correspondent for the New York Tribune newspaper (April 25, 26, 27, 1915). The account covers a series of attacks and counterattacks using poison gas. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
WW1 Trench foot & trench fever 1914-1918
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HELLFIRE CORNER - The Christmas Truce - 1914
BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1998 | 10/98 | World War I | The Christmas truce
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | My granddad's WWI Christmas truce
WWI Christmas Truce By 1000s Of German Soldiers
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Lost Battalion. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
Wings of Valor - The Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest
"History of the 308th Infantry 1917-1919"
Report on the Lost Battalion Incident
Lost Battalion on Encyclopedia.com
Major Whittlesey , Charles White Whittlesey , Major Charles Whittlesey and Charles Whittlesey - Commander of the Lost Battalion
A Personal Memory of the Lost Battalion : by Private Ralph E. John, Company 'A' 308th
Survivors Recall Lost Battalion - Sept. 24, 1951
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The First World War: War in the Air
The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
Welcome to The League of WWI Aviation Historians
Wings With Wires / Aerodrome / Manufacturers
Great War in the Air - Exhibition Home Page
Russian Aviation in World War I
USAF Air Museum. First World War Displays
Aircraft and the First World War
Zeppelin: The Home Page for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin
Public Record Office | Education | Snapshots | The Zeppelin Raids
Dark Autumn : THE 1916 GERMAN ZEPPELIN OFFENSIVE
Rickenbacker Papers Historical Sketch of Eddie Rickenbacker: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
Fighting the Flying Circus : This on-line edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's World War One memoirs dates from the original version published by Stokes in 1919. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
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Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Tactics
Tommy's life in the trenches : A look at the British trench troops.
The Special (gas) Companies of the RE, 1914-1918
Falkenhayn's defense of his tactics at Verdun
The Schlieffen Plan and Schlieffen Plan
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Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Technology
First World War.com - Weapons of War - Machine Guns
Frontiers: The Machine Gun : Examines the history and usage of the machine gun in World War I.
Maxim Machine Gun , and Maxim Machine Gun
The Maxim Machine Gun in WWI : This article presents a detailed examination of the German Maxim Machine Guns as they were deployed on the battlefields of World War One.
Synchronized Machine Gun and Anton Fokker: Synchronized Machine Gun
Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Weapons
Infantry weapons in World War One
Ernest Swinton - Tank and Who's Who: Sir Ernest Swinton - Tank
Trenches on the Web - Armory: Gas Warfare
"Higher From of Killing": Inventor Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize under a cloud of controversy.
The Special (gas) Companies of the RE, 1914-1918
Death on the Wind: Gas Warfare
The 1st Division at Ansauville : Gas Warfare in World War I - LOTS OF INFORMATION
Mustard Gas Poisoning and Mustard Gas
First World War.com - Weapons of War - Poison Gas
Trenches on the Web - Armory: Gas Warfare
09-26-18 : This personal account of Army Sergeant Charles L. Johnston provides a primer in gas warfare. Also look at 9-25-18 Sgt. Johnson goes to school to become a gas instructor.
Gas and Flame in World War I: The New Weapons of Terror : A personal account by an American who directly experienced trench warfare and poison gas. At the end of the narrative there are 5 more links to other personal accounts.** PRIMARY SOURCE
The Use of Poison Gas : An account by Will Irwin, correspondent for the New York Tribune newspaper (April 25, 26, 27, 1915). The account covers a series of attacks and counterattacks using poison gas. PRIMARY SOURCE
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries: Gas Warfare in World War I : This site links you to many U.S. Army official documents about their studies on the use of gas during World War I. EXCELLENT PRIMARY SOURCES
THE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF GAS WARFARE
Germany's Use of Chemical Warfare in the Great War
Women in the US Military - History of Gas Masks
Winston Churchill Wanted to 'Drench' Germany With Poison Gas
The Geneva Protocol of 1925: Poisonous or Other Gases, Bacteriological Warfare: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
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Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I
Who were the Choctaw code talkers?
World War I & II Choctaw Code Talkers
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Propaganda Analysis: Home Page
Propaganda: The Drift Towards War
The Poster War: Allied Propaganda Art of the First World War
Wartime Propaganda - World War I - USA
Propaganda : Propaganda Wartime Propaganda World War I : The Drift Towards War
World War I Propaganda in the United States
Propaganda Analysis - World War I Propaganda
Propaganda Critic: World War One > Committee on Public Information
Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (World War 1)
French Posters : Images of the War: French Posters 1914-1920
World War I Posters - Artists Mobilizing the Home Front
Trenches on the Web - World War I Posters
American Posters of World War One and British Posters of World War One
"A Summons to Comradeship" World War I and II Posters
The Provincial Museum of Alberta - Government History - The Poster War
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The Medical Front, WWI: Lots of primary sources. Excellent site.
Common Diseases of the 19th Century
BBC - History - Shell Shock during World War One
VFW Magazine - 'brotherhood of the damned' Doughboys Return From the World War
Shell shock = post traumatic stress disorder
Shell Shock and Its Lessons. Grafton E. Smith. 1917. Contents.
DefenseLINK News: From 'Shell Shock' to 'Combat Stress'
An American Nurse At War - Classroom
Nurse Helen Fairchild: My Aunt, My Hero
History of the American Field Service in France.
Wounded in the Argonne Forest , Evacuation Hospital #10 , Base Hospital #30, Clermont , Another hospital, Periqueaux , Homeward Bound on the Hospital Ship Comfort , Brooklyn Naval Hospital and Naval Hospital at Portsmouth : One soldier's journey. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
Harry L. Smith. Memoirs of an Ambulance Company Officer. Preface, Table of Contents. : A cool site of primary sources from basic training through the end of the war. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
Frederick A. Pottle. Stretchers. 1929. Introduction. Table of Contents. : Another like above. ** PRIMARY SOURCE
War's Cruel Scythe: the Health of Australian Soldiers in the First World War
WW1 Trench foot & trench fever 1914-1918
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Bubonic Plague may be more famous, but the Influenza epidemic that began in 1918 killed 25 million people in one year!! This article begins with a brief description of the Plague, but then gives some facts on the awful pandemic of 1918.
The American Experience | Influenza 1918
Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
Life at Camp Funston: Describes the flue epidemic in detail ** PRIMARY SOURCE
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Espionage - Spies and Spymasters - Main : Look here for information on a spy.
Abwehr (German Intelligence)
British Signal Intelligence Organizations
Secret Intelligence Service : British Intelligence
MI5 : British Counterintelligence.
The British MI5 During World War I
Mixed Bureau : Allied Counterintelligence in World War I
Second Bureau : French Military Intelligence
First World War.com - Primary Documents - Count Bernstorff on German Spying in the U.S., 1914-17
Mare Island : German sabotage of U.S. Navy Yard, 1917
Carl Lody : Convicted German spy.
World War I, The U.S. Sedition Act and SCHENCK v. UNITED STATES
Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I
Who were the Choctaw code talkers?
World War I & II Choctaw Code Talkers
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GenderGap - American Women & the Military - TOC
American Women and the Great War | Lynn Dumenil and Kim M. Weber | OAH Magazine of History
Women's Organizations and Issues
Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Women and War
Mobilizing woman power, by Harriot Stanton Blatch
Canada in World War I - The Home Front
War of the Roses - Ratification of the 19th Amendment
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POETRY, MUSIC,PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART OF WAR:
The First World War: War Art and The First World War: War Literature
"Dulce Et Decorum Est", by Wilfred Owen
The War Poems & Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
Rupert Brooke and his War Sonnets
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature of WWI
World War One Songs (WW1) Early Recordings From 1918 Victrola
MUSIC: America Goes to War Part 1 and Page 2
A list of songs popular during World War 1
1914-18 war - Art of the First World War
1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 105 - Otto Dix
Great War: The Heritage of The First World War 1914 - 1918 : Mostly about photography
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Canada in World War I - The Home Front
German Americans and World War I
Herbert Hoover Food Administrator
Who is George Creel and what is the Committee on Public Information?
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President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" (1918)
The Learning Curve | Great War | The Peace Settlement
Versailles Treaty, 1919 (by Article)
The Treaty of Versailles (1919)
A German View of the Treaty of Versailles
The Effect of the Versailles Treaty
Key Articles from the 1919 Treaty of Versailles that Would Cause World War II
Reparations and War Guilt -- Treaty of Versailles 1919
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WORLD WAR I MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS
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The Legends and Traditions of the Great War: Sergeant Alvin York
The New American - The Real Sergeant York - January 5, 1998
Diary of Sgt. York: ** PRIMARY SOURCE
The Bradford Brothers - Heroes of World War I ** PRIMARY SOURCE
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World War I - New Technologies
The First World War: Inventors
New Technologies in World War I
Anton Fokker: Synchronized Machine Gun
Robert Whitehead: Self propelling Torpedo and Self propelling torpedo - Robert Whitehead
Ernest Swinton - Tank and Who's Who: Sir Ernest Swinton - Tank
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RMS Titanic : Excellent information on ship and sinking.
Encyclopedia Titanica: Titanic Passenger and Crew Research ( Official Home Page )
David Clarke's 3-D Titanic Site
Titanic ~ The Unsinkable Ship and Halifax, Nova Scotia
Edgardo Andrew: Between the Titanic and the Deep Blue Sea : A look at the event from a passenger's point of view.
"Modern Marvels: Titanic Tech" Questions
James Cameron's Titanic Expedition 2001: What We Saw On and Inside the Wreck
The Marconi Wireless Installation in R.M.S. Titanic
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: The Titanic
TITANIC's Lifeboats: Introduction
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The World War I Document Archive: This archive of primary documents from World War I has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List. It contains Conventions, Treaties, & Official Papers, Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Dictionary, Image Archive, Maritime War, and links to other WWI sites.
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 : A Library of Congress American Memory Collection. Search the ACTUAL newspaper by date and issue. These are scanned images of most pages of the newspaper, complete with reports of action from the USA soldiers' point of view.
War Diaries of World War One : This database contains the digitized War Diaries of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units. From the start of the First World War, CEF units were required to maintain a daily account of their “Actions in the Field.” This log was called a War Diary. The War Diaries are not personal diaries, rather they are a historical record of a unit’s administration, operations and activities during the First World War.
BBC News | World War I | Interviews from the archives : Over the years many World War I veterans have shared their experiences with the BBC. Listen to these first-hand accounts of courage, fear and humour on the battlefield from the BBC's radio archives.
BBC Images and newsreel : Footage and photographs from the battlefields.
The Human Face of War : The letters, diaries and photographs of people who lived through World War One offer an extraordinarily personal account of the horrors of war. These are the stories of real people, on the front line and left behind.
EyeWitness To World War I : "History through the eyes of those who lived it." Limited topics.
Harry L. Smith. Memoirs of an Ambulance Company Officer. Preface, Table of Contents.: A cool site of primary sources from basic training through the end of the war.
Frederick A. Pottle. Stretchers. 1929. Introduction. Table of Contents. : Another like above.
Fighting the Flying Circus : This on-line edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's World War One memoirs dates from the original version published by Stokes in 1919
The Red Fighter Pilot : BY MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN (The Red Baron)
Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War :This on-line edition of Admiral Reinhard Scheer's World War One memoirs is based directly on the original, published in 1920.
BBC History - World War One Soldier's Diary Readings
History Channel - Dear Home: Letters from WWI
American Experience | War Letters
Views of War, from A Soldier's Diary: the Diary of Benjamin Edgar Cruzan
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Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Statistics
The First World War 1914-1918 (The Great War, World War 1) : Has some great stats.
The Great War in Numbers: Stats on WWI
Casualties statistics from World War One
Casualties from the Great War : Data and stats.
HELLFIRE CORNER - The Great War - Impact - Statistics
Financial Cost of the First World War
Digital History : Stats and costs. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
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BBC - History - Sir Ernest Shackleton, A voyage of Endurance
Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | American Museum of Natural History
Antarctic Explorers: Ernest Shackleton
NOVA Online | Shackleton's Voyage of Endurance | PBS
Sir Ernest Shackleton - Antarctic explorer : National Maritime Museum
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
Sir Ernest Shackleton 1874-1922
Sir Ernest Shackleton: Contents
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WWI Prisoners of War - US Air Force Museum WWI History Gallery
From the National Archives : A look at the spiritual side.
POWs and the Great War - Captivity on the Eastern Front: Info from a book review
IWM Collections On-Line: Prisoners
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WW3 - The True Cause of World War 1 and WW3 - What is the New World Order (NWO)?
BBC - Schools Online World War One - HQ - Trench Warfare : Fun game
BBC - Schools Online World War One - Homepage
BBC - Schools Online World War One - Games - World War When : Test your knowledge of WWI.
BBC - Schools Online World War One - Homepage : True stories allow you to view the war through the eyes of another.
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