WWI Virtual Museum Research Links
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Sophie
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/assassination_of_archduke_ferdinand.php
- http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/wwi-assassination.htm
- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke-franz-ferdinand-assassinated
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmHxq28440c
- https://www.npr.org/2014/06/27/325516359/a-century-ago-in-sarajevo-a-plot-a-farce-and-a-fateful-shot
Causes of World War I
- Click here for videos on the Causes of World War I
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/causes_of_ww1.php
- https://www.historyonthenet.com/world-war-one-causes-2/
- https://cgmssocialstudies8.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/9/2/37924515/major_causes_of_wwi-0.pdf
- http://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/nationalism/
Christmas Truce of 1914
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/christmas_truce.php
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/christmas-truce-of-1914
- http://time.com/3643889/christmas-truce-1914/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KHoVBK2EVE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1YvnfcFVs
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/christmastruce.htm
Zimmerman Note/Telegraph
- http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/zi/Zimmermann_Telegram
- http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-zimmermann-telegram
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/euro-hist/american-entry-world-war-i/v/zimmermann-telegram
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38581861
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/zimmermann.htm
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/united_states_in_ww1.php
Voyage/Sinking of the Lusitania
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/sinking_of_the_lusitania.php
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z2vj7ty
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/lusitania
- http://www.history.com/news/the-sinking-of-rms-lusitania-100-years-ago
- http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/lusitania.htm
- http://www.historyinanhour.com/2014/05/07/the-sinking-of-the-lusitania-summary/
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/why-the-germans-torpedoed-the-lusitania/
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/lusitania-propaganda
U.S. Entry into WWI
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/united_states_in_ww1.php
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/america-and-world-war-one/
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-7/apush-us-in-wwi/a/the-united-states-in-world-war-i
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-nine/10801898/why-america-joined-first-world-war.html
- http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/progress/wwone/
- https://www.historyonthenet.com/what-was-the-us-involvement-in-ww1/
Allied Leaders of WWI
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/allied_powers.php
- http://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/world-war-i-military-leaders/
- http://treatyof-versailles.weebly.com/the-big-four.html
- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/leaders-of-the-big-four-nations-meet-for-the-first-time-in-paris
- http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/woodrow-wilson
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-america-war/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/george_david_lloyd.shtml
- https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/key-political-figures.html
Central Powers Leaders of WWI
- http://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/world-war-i-military-leaders/
- https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/key-political-figures.html
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/theobald-von-bethmann-hollweg/
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/central_powers.php
- http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWcentral.htm
- https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/ottoman-empire/enters-the-war
- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/austria-hungary-declares-war-on-serbia
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/franzjosef.htm
- http://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/austria-hungary/
WWII Leaders in WWI (Hitler & Churchill)
- https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007431
- http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/warone.htm
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/hitler.htm
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRPEsRp3utc
- http://spartacus-educational.com/ExamRHU19.htm
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/churchills-first-world-war
- http://www.history.com/news/winston-churchills-world-war-disaster
- https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/churchill-in-world-war-i-and-aftermath.html
- https://owlcation.com/humanities/Winston-Churchill-in-the-Trenches
Trench Warfare
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/trench_warfare.php
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/trench-warfare
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history/pictures/world-war-i-trench-warfare/german-front-line-trenches
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history/videos/trench-warfare
- http://imwm.ie/history/world-war-1/trench-warfare/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aapvArc0JmU
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/standard/history/1890_1920/trench_warfare/revision/1/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25626530
Weapons of WWI
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zs666sg
- http://www.historynet.com/weapons-of-world-war-i.htm
- https://www.historyonthenet.com/world-war-one-weapons/
- https://www.ncpedia.org/wwi-technology-and-weapons-war
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezBSURCMe-o&index=3&list=PLPYbVPqV7je_-7VTOk2UJ5DVoIzVGVT_w
- https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/world-war-i-in-photos-technology/507305/
- http://www.history.co.uk/article/5-technological-innovations-from-ww1
- http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27517166
- https://www.historyonthenet.com/world-war-one-zeppelin-raids/
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/bigbertha.htm
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/index.htm
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm
Women in WWI
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/women-in-wwi
- http://www.striking-women.org/module/women-and-work/world-war-i-1914-1918
- https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/01/opinion/davis-world-war-i-women/index.html
- https://history.delaware.gov/exhibits/online/WWI/Women-roles-ww1.shtml
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/womenww1_four.htm
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/women_employment_01.shtml
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-frontlines-wwi-came-operate-telephones-180962687/
Black soldiers during WWI
- https://armyhistory.org/fighting-for-respect-african-american-soldiers-in-wwi/
- https://americacomesalive.com/2015/02/05/harlem-hellfighters-black-soldiers-world-war/
- http://www.blackpast.org/aah/369th-infantry-regiment-harlem-hellfighters
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history/videos/the-harlem-hellfighters
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8eWsFXH5g
- https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/sets/african-american-soldiers-in-world-war-i/
- http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/remembrance-day-black-asian-soldiers-in-ww1/
- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31796542
- http://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/bhm-heroes/how-black-soldiers-helped-britain-in-first-world-war/
- https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/how-black-soldiers-in-first-world-war-shaped-civil-rights
Homefront & Rationing during WWI
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/britain/homefrontrev1.shtml
- https://www.ncpedia.org/wwi-support-home-front
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/the-home-front-1914-to-1918/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25235371
- http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWrationing.htm
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/rationing-and-food-shortages-during-the-first-world-war
Propaganda
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/lusitania-propaganda
- https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/themes/propaganda
- http://www.ww1propaganda.com/
- http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos/background.html
- https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/1914-1920/2-homefront/1-propaganda/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zq8c7ty
- https://worldwaripropaganda.wordpress.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t_Gwo3M-uc
- https://owlcation.com/humanities/How-Were-Propaganda-Posters-Used-In-World-War-1
Russia’s Exit from the War
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/russian_revolution.php
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/war_end_01.shtml
- http://russiasgreatwar.org/media/international/brest.shtml
- http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSfww.htm
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/russia-1900-to-1939/russia-and-world-war-one/
- http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/world-war-i/
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Russian-Revolution-of-1917
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/eastern_front_01.shtml
Red Baron & Airplanes during the War
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/aviation_and_aircraft_of_ww1.php
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/red_baron.php
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zgxhpv4
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/aerial-warfare-and-world-war-one/aircraft-and-world-war-one/
- http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29612707
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbVZGLI8izk
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/manfred-baron-von-richthofen
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCtvfu5NIG0
Influenza Outbreak of 1918 (Spanish flu)
- http://www.history.com/topics/1918-flu-pandemic
- http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/1918-spanish-flu.htm
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-180965222/
- https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25403865
- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140428-1918-flu-avian-swine-science-health-science/
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/influenza/
Schlieffen Plan
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/schlieffenplanrev3.shtml
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/causes-of-world-war-one/the-schlieffen-plan/
- https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Schlieffen_Plan
- http://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/schlieffen-plan/
- http://spartacus-educational.com/FWWschlieffenP.htm
Battle of the Somme
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/battle-of-the-somme/videos/1916-battle-of-the-somme
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/battle_of_the_somme.php
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/ztngxsg
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/battle-of-the-somme
- https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Battle-of-the-Somme
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/somme.htm
- https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/battles-of-world-war-one/the-battle-of-the-somme/
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-the-somme
Battle of Ypres
- http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-battle-of-ypres
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/ypres1.htm
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/battles-of-world-war-one/the-battle-of-ypres/
- https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Battle-of-Ypres
- http://www.greatwar.co.uk/ypres-salient/battles-ypres-salient.htm
Battle of Verdun
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Verdun
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zydwtyc
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/battle-of-verdun
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/verdun.htm
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/battles-of-world-war-one/the-battle-of-verdun/
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-battle-of-verdun
Battle of Jutland
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZH5AwLuJ2E
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/battle-of-jutland
- http://www.historyforkids.net/battle-of-jutland.html
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/naval-warfare-and-world-war-one/the-battle-of-jutland/
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Jutland
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-battle-of-jutland
- http://navymuseum.co.nz/worldwar1/battles-operations/battle-of-jutland/
- http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/jutland.htm
Treaty of Versailles
- http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_i/end_of_ww1_post_war.php
- http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/treaty-of-versailles
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Versailles-1919
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/modern-world-history-1918-to-1980/the-treaty-of-versailles/
- https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-7/apush-us-in-wwi/a/the-treaty-of-versailles
- https://www.historyonthenet.com/world-war-one-the-treaty-of-versailles/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYhLNQMRro
- https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005425