World War I Links

WORLD WAR I – The Great War

DATABASES (use this link off campus)	WEBSITES - WWI	WEBSITES – general/ links/ Primary sources
History Study Center – see Study Units for: -The First World War, 1914-1918 And also Medical History, History of Technology, etc. SIRS Decades Historical New York Times Oxford Reference -history NoodleTools	BBC History – WWI History Channel – main WWI History Channel – WWI Letters First World War – Multimedia Archive PBS – “The Great War” companion site Library of Congress - WWI Photography National World War I Museum WWI “Trenches on the Web”	Internet Modern History Sourcebook Mt. Holyoke – WWI Primary Source Documents Eyewitness to History - WWI Great War Primary Documents Archive Teacher Oz – WWI (links organized by topic)
PRINT SOURCES	SPECIAL TOPICS	Electronic Texts
Include (see Library Display for more): The World War I Reader, 940.3 WOR The First World War, Keegan. 940.3 West Point Atlas for the Great War, Strategies and Tactics, REF 911 ATL The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political, Social and Military History (5 Volumes) REF 940.3 WOR v.1-5 America at War: World War I, Bosco. 940.3 BOS Illustrated History of World War I. OS 940.3 GIL	Note: Many of the Databases,General, Links, and Primary document sites above, likeTeacher Oz – WWI or First World War are broken down by specific topics. Be sure to explore them. Canadian WWI Propaganda Posters Air War – The Aerodrome Propaganda Postcards of the Great War Maryland in WWI	WWI – search on Google Books - this search should find public domain, or full-text available books.
2010 Western Studies writing prompts	2010 Honors WS writing prompts
· Identify and discuss the importance of new technologies (tanks, high-explosive shells, aircraft and flamethrowers) in warfare; · Identify and discuss the role of propaganda in WWI (Central Powers [Germany /Austria] and Allied Forces [France, Great Britain, US, Russia]); · Identify and discuss the impact of disease and medical practices in WWI (trench foot, dysentery, bullet wounds, hospital stations, role of nurses, etc.)	· War is an unimaginable horror for both man and nature. · Strong bonds of comradery are forged in the heat of war. · Older generations (pre-WWI), full of romantic notions of the fatherland and glories of war, lack any understanding of the reality of modern war. · The young men subjected to war experience a sense of betrayal at the hands of the older generation; their loss of faith in the older generation is accompanied by a sense of complete disillusionment with that generation’s values and traditions.