Mr. Menninger's Class

World War I Websites

 

General Info

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

Comprehensive site

 

www.firstworldwar.com

 very comprehensive site: click on topics on left and scroll down; check list of feature articles

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/

Scroll all the way down the page to see all topics

 

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/war_science/index.html

Technology during the war; includes firsthand accounts

 

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w1frm.htm

primary sources

 

Submarine Warfare

http://www.vectorsite.net/twsub2.html

WWI Submarine warfare

 

http://www.worldwar1.com/arm012.htm

WWI U-Boats

 

http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/group9/seawar.htm

Sea warfare, descriptions of vessels, Battle of Jutland, pictures

 

http://www.dropbears.com/w/ww1subs/index.htm 

WWI Subs and first hand battle account.

 

Air Warfare

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/redbaron/

Red Baron; Arial arms-race, GREAT slide show.

 

http://www.wwiaviation.com/toc.shtml

WWI Aircraft: history, descriptions, drawings.

 

http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/group9/airwar.htm

dogfights, balloons, aces (lots of pictures)

 

 

Trench Warfare

http://www.germannotes.com/hist_ww1_trenches_life.shtml

Life in the trenches.

 

http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm

Details: life in the trenches

 

http://www.germannotes.com/hist_ww1_trenches_construction.shtml

Trench construction.

 

http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/group9/trenchwar.htm

life in the trenches, snipers, forts, tunneling

 

Battles

http://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/group9/battles.htm

colored maps and concise descriptions

 

http://www.warchronicle.com/wwi/battles/cantigny.htm

Battle: Cantigny

 

http://www.warchronicle.com/wwi/battles/vimy.htm

Battle: Arras, Vimy Ridge

 

AEF

http://www.historynet.com/magazines/military_history/3034291.html

Good account of life as a dough-boy

 

http://www.libertymemorialmuseum.org/FileUploads/The%20Doughboys.doc

Dough boy: how they got their name/ daily life/ clothes/ attitude of troops to officers

 

http://www.aef-doughboys.com/index.html

good source of pictures

 

African-American involvement

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/369th-infantry/

overview and photos of 369th Infantry

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart7.html

Overview of African-American Involvement and WWI

 

http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/integrate/CHRON3.html

US Army sponsored site. Part I deals mostly with WWI involvement.

 

Women in WWI & Suffrage Movement

http://www.gordon.army.mil/OCOS/Museum/hlogrl.asp

US Women's Signal Corp in WWI – "Hello girls"

 

http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/signal.html

US Army Women’s Signal Corps biography

 

http://history.amedd.army.mil/ancwebsite/slpr/slpr3.htm

history and photos of the Army Nurse Corps

 

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/

Women & suffrage (Primary sources)

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande09.html

Women’s suffrage pre-war through post-war.

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwtl.html

Time line for women's suffrage

 

Art and Propaganda Posters

http://www.lilithgallery.com/arthistory/dada/arthistory_dada.html

Anti-war movement art

 

http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/visite.html

100 paintings with info about works and artists from a commemorative exhibit

 

http://www.graphicwitness.org/ineye/ww1.htm

Anti-war art & graphics (good site; tough to navigate, but worth it)

 

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/artists.htm

U. S. Army official war artists

 

http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/index.htm

Propaganda posters (42 U.S. posters)

Click on the country in the gray box to the right

 

http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/amposter.htm

Propaganda posters – information and examples

 

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/posters/essay.html

Posters from the Smithsonian

(Click on Patriotic Persuasion and scroll through the collection)

 

http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sow-seeds/

Home front posters from the National Archives

 

http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/

search the Imperial War Museum’s collection by artist’s name or title of work

 

Literature

http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/index.htm

WWI writers and poets.  Many links.

 

http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/  

WWI poets

 

League of Nations & Versailles Treaty

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=1408

Versailles Treaty

 

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/versailles.html

Primary source documents.

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_league.html

PBS- Wilson and the Fourteen Points speech