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A New Moral Order: Britain at the Start of the Great War | History Today
When Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914 there was no outbreak of jingoism and no immediate rush to enlist. What Anthony Fletcher finds instead, in letters, diaries and newspapers, is a people who had little comprehension of the profound changes to come.
A global guide to the first world war - interactive documentary
Collection of videos written and narrated by historians from around the world organized in a topical, interactive timeline allowing users to take different paths through the site. The quality of the historical footage is remarkable and the information is comprehensive. Teachers can cull this to find classroom or homework material. Alternatively, students can be set free in this to find areas of personal interest.
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
EDSITEment - Lesson Plan including 1. Motives for the Treaty: the Trauma of World War I, 2. Drawing Up the Treaty: France and the United States, 3. Optional activity: A Treaty of the Victors, 4. The Terms of the Treaty, 5. The German Response
World War One Color Photos
The Economic Consequences of the Peace: John Maynard Keynes
Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout the world and was critical in establishing a general opinion that the Versailles Treaty was a "Carthaginian peace". It helped to consolidate American public opinion against the treaty and involvement in the League of Nations. The perception by much of the British public that Germany had been treated unfairly in turn was a crucial factor in public support for appeasement.
Stories from the Veterans History Project - World War I: The Great War (Library of Congress)
Written accounts from soldiers in letters, diaries, and memoirs, as well as precious collections of photographs from the Library of Congress.
BibliOdyssey: Dogs of War
Satirical maps of europe on the eve of World War I, a combination of cartography and political cartoon
World War I Continues to Have Relevance 100 Years Later - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The German magazine Der Spiegel's take on World War I's importance today. Great way to look at the importance of the war through modern eyes instead of teaching the same 'ol causes of the war lesson that have been molding in file cabinets for the last 50 years
First world war: 15 legacies still with us today | World news | theguardian.com
If you need to impress upon students the necessity of studying World War I, this list should provide the foundation to a rather persuasive argument. However, cutting and pasting the list into a PowerPoint that you're going to talk through will accomplish absolutely nothing.
BBC News - World War One: 10 interpretations of who started WW1
The Causes of World War I lesson has been done perhaps more than any other lesson, except perhaps the Constitutional Convention. Yet in a World Studies or History course it's a staple lesson, this provides a brief overview of ten different explanations. Why not throw them into a "final four" bracket and set the students free to find support for them.? This helps with a Treaty of Versailles lesson as well.
Map of Europe 1914 - 2014
This is a simple set of two European maps that allows the viewer to slide one over the other and compare the map of Europe in 1914 (before World War I) and the map of Europe today.
World War I Centenary: 100 Legacies of the Great War
Just like the title says, this compendium of legacies of the Great War are well organized and sortable for easy review. This could easily serve as the basis for a hierarchy analysis - how would students rank these? Why?