World War One Pathfinder
Use the links below to find information you need for your research assignment.
Tanks
Tank: Life and Times of a 'Wonder Weapon'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/gallery_tank.shtml
The Tank Corps of 1914-1918
http://www.1914-1918.net/tanks.htm
George S. Patton, Jr. Tank Pioneer
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/patton/aa_patton_tanks_1.html
Weapons of War - Tanks
http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/tanks.htm
When Tanks Fought Tanks
http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/whentankfoughttank.htm
The Battlefield Debut of the Tank
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tank.htm
"BEF Technology in World War I." History in Dispute, Vol. 8: World War I:
First Series. Dennis Showalter, ed. St. James Press, 2002. Reproduced in
History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3600
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 24
Lusitania – sinking of
The Lusitania Disaster – American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rotolusit.html
The Sinking of the Lusitania – Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi2.htm
The Lusitania
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=528
Lost Liners
http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/lusitania.html
The Sinking of the Lusitania
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron//USA/Lusitania.html
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3593
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 14
Airplanes
Sopwith Camel
http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/Aircraft/Camel/Page1.html
WWI Aviation
http://www.wwiaviation.com/toc.html
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3580
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 1
Machine Gun
Armory
http://www.worldwar1.com/arm005.htm
Machine-Gun Pillbox
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWposts.htm
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 15 & 27
U-boats
Wire Roping the German Submarine – the Barrage that Stopped the U-boat
http://www.inventionfactory.com/history/RHAwire/wrgerman/minewre.html
U-boats of World War I
http://www.uboat.net/wwi/
The Sinking of the Tuscania
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/tuscania.htm
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 23
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun - Spartacus
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWverdun.htm
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3602
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 26
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme - CWGC
http://www.cwgc.org/somme/
Tank: Life and Times of a 'Wonder Weapon'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/gallery_tank.shtml
Battle of the Somme - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/wars_conflict/soldiers/act_somme_entry.shtml
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3599
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 23
Poison Gas
Mustard Gas
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWmustard.htm
Gas Attack, 1916
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/gas.htm
"Germany First Uses Lethal Chemical Weapons on the Western Front,
April 22, 1915." DISCovering World History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003.
Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/
"Use of Poison Gas in World War I." History in Dispute, Vol. 8: World War I:
First Series. Dennis Showalter, ed. St. James Press, 2002. Reproduced in
History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 10 & 19
Mata Hari (Margarete Gertrud Zelle) – German spy
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies - NOVA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/venona/dece_hari.html
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 15
Trenches
Trench System
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWtrenchsystem.htm
In the Trenches 1914-1918
http://www.1914-1918.net/intrenches.htm
The Trenches – Symbol of the Stalemate
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/chapters/ch1_trench.html
The Battle of the Somme
http://www.cwgc.org/somme/
Influenzia in the First World War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWinfluenzia.htm
Life in the Trenches
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm
The Trench Experience – National Achieves
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/greatwar/default.htm
Battle of the Somme - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/wars_conflict/soldiers/act_somme_entry.shtml
No Man’s Land
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWnoman.htm
Barbed-Wire Entanglements
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbarbed.htm
World War I Trenches
http://www.worldwar1.com/
Trenches on the Web
http://www.worldwar1.com/reflib.htm
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3601 & 3602
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 24
Nurses
Women in Military Service – World War I Nurses
http://www.womensmemorial.org/H&C/Exhibits/exhibitshl.html
This Is How It Was: An American Nurse in France during World War I
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5326
A Canadian Nurse in World War I
http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm
My Mother’s War – In Her Own Words
http://www.murphsplace.com/mother/main.html
Women in World War One
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets4.html
Medical History of WWI – Nursing Documents
http://www.vlib.us/medical/Nindex.htm
"Medicine in World War I, 1917." DISCovering U.S. History. Gale Research,
1997. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 4 & 17
Big Four and the Treaty of Versailles –
Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French Prime
Minister George Clemenceau, and American President Woodrow Wilson
Treaty of Versailles
http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/versailles.htm
Treaty of Versailles and the Big Three – Lloyd George (Britain), Clemenceau
(France), and Wilson (USA)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/
History of Veterans Day – Treaty of Versailles
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
Treaty of Versailles – Covenant of the League of Nations
http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item.asp?dID=23
Treaty of Versailles
http://www.history.com/topics/treaty-of-versailles
American Rhetoric – Woodrow Wilson’s Final Address in the Support of the
League of Nations
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wilsonleagueofnations.htm
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Treaty of Versailles
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005425
Versailles Treaty
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWversailles.htm
A German View of the Treaty of Versailles
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob94.html
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3601
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 26
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Origins of World War One
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/origins_01.shtml
Outbreak of War
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWoutbreak.htm
Who’s Who – Archduke Franz Ferdinand
http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/ferdinand.htm
Primary Documents – Archduke Franz Ferdinand
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/harrachmemoir.htm
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 10
American Forces
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i-american-expeditionary-forces-getmotorized-transportation.htm
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/aef/aef01.htm
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 2
Opium Wars in China
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/OPIUM.HTM
General Sites about World War One
First World War
http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm
ipl2 – World War One History
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48548
On the Homefront: America During World War I and World War II
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/pres
entations/homefront/index.html
The Long, Long Trail – The British Army of 1914-1918 for Family Historians
http://www.1914-1918.net/
World War One – Eyewitness to History
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpwwi.htm
World War One – Eyewitness to History – More info
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w1frm.htm
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive – Poetry of WWI plus a good source
of images of things from WWI
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro
The Great War - PBS
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/
Great War – National Achieves
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/greatwar/default.htm
American Memory – see Military Technology in WWI, the Lusitania Disaster
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/rototime1.html
World War One Movies - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/launch_ani_wwone_movies.sht
ml
World War One – BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/
ggA Guide to World War I Resources from the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/wwi/wwi.html
National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial – scroll down to see
additional links
http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index.aspx?sid=110&gid=1&pgid=1052
World War I Document Archive
http://www.vlib.us/medical/Nindex.htm
Flamethrower
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3587
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 8
Big bertha & railroad guns
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3582
Otto von Bismarck & alliance system
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3582
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 4
Battle of Sedan
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3599
Building of the Suez Canal
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3600
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 23
Spheres of influence in China
Young, Peter. "General Index." The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated Encyclopedia
of World War I. 1986. Print. See page 3584
Franco-Prussian War
McNeill, Allison. "Cumulative Index." World War I. 2002. Print. See page 10
British East India Company
Sepoy Revolt in India
Giuseppe garibaldi & Italian Unification
Austro-Sardinian War
Stanley and Livingston in Africa
Zulu Wars in South Africa