World War I
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
The World War I Document Archive
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: World War I
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: World War I, Treaties by Date
British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914
World War I, The Daily Telegraph Affair - October 1908
World War I, The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams, July-August 1914
President Woodrow Wilson's Appeal for Neutrality - August 1914
Lloyd George on the Battle of the Somme - July 1916
The Balfour Declaration - January 1917
Woodrow Wilson: PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY - January 1917
The Zimmerman Note - January 1917
THE ZIMMERMANN NOTE, Released March 1, 1917
NARA | Digital Classroom | Teaching With Documents: The Zimmermann Telegram
Coded version of the Zimmerman Telegram
President Wilson asks for a Declaration of War Against Germany - April 1917
Senate Opposition to Wilson's Call for a Declaration of War - April 1917
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence - August 1917 - more primary documents relating to Lawrence and the war in the Middle East by clicking HERE.
The Avalon Project: President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points - January 1918
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points - January 1918
World War I, The U.S. Sedition Act, May 1918
The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919
Versailles Treaty, 1919 (by Article)
World War I, The League of Nations Protocol - October 1920
Treaties of Peace Between the US and Germany, Austria and Hungary - 1921
The Covenant of the League of Nations - including amendments adopted December 1924
The Geneva Protocol of 1925: Poisonous or Other Gases, Bacteriological Warfare
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (American Treasures Exhibition, Library of Congress)
FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS AND LETTERS
BBC History site - World War One Soldier's Diary Readings
BBC - History - Charlie's War: The Diary and Letters of a Canadian Corporal
History Channel - Dear Home: Letters from WWI
Letters from World War One and Two. - fantastic database.
American Experience | War Letters
BBC - History - The Human Face of War
Views of War, from A Soldier's Diary: the Diary of Benjamin Edgar Cruzan
Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
From the Home Front and the Front Lines (American Treasures Exhibition, Library of Congress)
STATISTICS - THE COST OF WAR
The Great War in Numbers: Stats on WWI
HELLFIRE CORNER - The Great War - Impact - Statistics
Financial Cost of the First World War
Australian Military Statistics
DIPLOMACY DURING & AFTER THE WAR
Britain & Germany: The Naval Arms Race
Summary of Alliances and Agreements, 1879-1907
The Dual Alliance between German and Austria-Hungary (1879)
The Franco-Russian Alliance (1894)
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902/5)
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Laws of War
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Russian Alliance Military Convention - 1892
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Entente Cordiale Between England and France - 1904
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Anglo-Russian Entente - 1907
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Arbitration Convention Between the United States and Austria-Hungary, 1909
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey - 1914
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Sykes-Picot Agreement: 1916
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; March 3, 1918
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: British White Paper of June 1922
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Palestine Mandate, 1922
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Kellogg-Briand Pact - 1928
1914-1920: Diplomacy of the First World War
1921-1936: Diplomacy of Isolationism
CAUSES OF THE WAR
TIMELINE: 1839-1914 The Long Fuse
TIMELINE: The July Crisis, 1914
TIMELINE: 28-Jun-1914 - Assassination in Sarajevo
Toward World War I in Europe to 1908
A Joyful Leap into World War I, 1911-1914
"NEW IMPERIALISM (1870 - 1914)
AN OUTLINE AND SURVEY COURSE OF WORLD WAR I
World War I, The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Serbian nationalism from the "Nacertanije" to the Yugoslav Kingdom
World War I, The Narodna Odbrana - The Black Hand
The Balkan causes of World War I
The Austrian Ultimatum to Serbia, July 23,1914 and the Serbian Reply
The July Crisis: The Austrian Viewpoint - Serbian Viewpoint - German Viewpoint - Views of the German General Staff - The Russian Viewpoint - British Viewpoint - French Viewpoint
World War I, The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams
United States Enters World War I
The Nations Involved in the Great War
First World War: Political Leaders
Triple Entente - Triple Alliance
Turkey in 1914 - Italy in 1914 - Russia in 1914 - Austria in 1914 - Germany in 1914 - France in 1914 - Britain in 1914
GAME: The Causes of the First World War
THE MAJOR PLAYERS
First World War: Political Leaders
First World War: Military Leaders
France - Great Britain/U.K. - Russia/USSR - Austria-Hungary - Germany - Kingdom of Serbia - Turkey/Ottoman Empire
U.S. Participation in the Great War
U.S. Involvement in World War I
BATTLE STRATEGY - WAR PLANS
Trenches on the Web - Timeline: 1905-1914 - War Plans
BATTLEFIELDS
Hellfire Corner - The Great War - Battlefield Guide - Charles Fair
Battles of the First World War
First World War: Military Leaders
Tragedy on the Somme - Battle of the Somme - The importance of the Battle of the Somme - the Somme
German Policy in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
Jordan - History - The Great Arab Revolt - more on the war in the Middle East HERE.
THE WEAPONS & TROOPS
ARMIES OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914
The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
The Doughboy Center - General Headquarters - Contents
Rank Insignia of the German Army, 1914-1918
The Organization of the German Army, 1914
TRENCH WARFARE
Life in the Trenches - Life in a trench
BBC - History - Life in The Trenches Virtual Tour
BBC - History - World War One Trench Virtual Tour
BBC - History - Front Line Trench Virtual Tour
BBC - History - Dogfight Over the Trenches Virtual Tour
Lyrics to "Christmas in the Trenches"
HELLFIRE CORNER - The Christmas Truce - 1914
The Trenches at Messines 1916-17
British Trench Warfare 1917-1918
Trench Warfare in World War One
Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Trench War
GAS WARFARE
Trenches on the Web - Armory: Gas Warfare
Germany's Use of Chemical Warfare in the Great War
The Geneva Protocol of 1925: Poisonous or Other Gases, Bacteriological Warfare
MEDICINE OF THE WAR
The Medical Front WWI | Medical History
Nurse Helen Fairchild: My Aunt, My Hero
War's Cruel Scythe: the Health of Australian Soldiers in the First World War
Info on the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 can be found below.
AVIATION
The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
Wings With Wires / Aerodrome / Manufacturers
Great War in the Air - Exhibition Home Page
Aircraft and the First World War
Fighting the Flying Circus - Eddie Rickenbacker's World War One memoirs.
BBC - History - Dogfight Over the Trenches Virtual Tour
Airships: The Hindenburg and Other Zeppelins
WAR AT SEA
uboat.net - The U-boat War in World War One (WWI)
Enter Lost Liners for more info on the Lusitania
World War One - The Maritime War
World War I - Naval Historical Center
Submarine Warfare - The Online Casebook
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA, 1914-18
IMAGES, MAPS, & AUDIO
The ANIMATED map as history: World War I, 1914-1918: Europe plunges into War
MAP: Europe on the Eve of World War I, 1914
Trenches on the Web - Fractal Gallery
Trenches on the Web - Map Room
History of Europe between the Two World Wars 1918-1942 : Europe after World War I
The World, Political Realignment MAP, 1919
Europe, Political Realignment MAP, 1919
Map of Germany after World War I and the Versailles Peace treaty (1919)
Maps, Charts, Photos and Cartoons Relating to the Versailles Treaty
MAP: The Effect of the Versailles Treaty
World War I II Pictures, Posters
IMAGES: Warship Gallery, Turn of the Century
World War I Posters - Artists Mobilizing the Home Front
Postcards of German Sweethearts
American Leaders Speak: Sound Recordings of World War I
1914-18 war - Art of the First World War
World War I Photos & Postcards
Different Worlds - Pictures of the Past - World War One
World War I & II Pictures, Posters
**** Jack Turner's War
Coded version of the Zimmerman Telegram - De-coded Zimmerman Telegram
PROPAGANDA
Propaganda Analysis: Home Page
Propaganda: The Drift Towards War
Propaganda Analysis - World War I Propaganda
Propaganda Critic: World War One > Committee on Public Information
World War I II Pictures, Posters
Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (World War 1)
World War I Posters: Subject Index
Trenches on the Web - World War I Posters
Canadian WWII Propaganda Posters
North Carolinians and the Great War: Introduction to Propaganda Posters - access to some great primary sources!
American Posters of World War One
British Posters of World War One
WarMuseum.ca - Canadian Wartime Propaganda - First World War
The Provincial Museum of Alberta - Government History - The Poster War
"A Summons to Comradeship" World War I and II Posters
1914-18 war - Art of the First World War
SPIES - ESPIONAGE - SEDITION!
The British MI5 During World War I
World War I, The U.S. Sedition Act
BBC - History - Shot at Dawn: Cowards, Traitors or Victims?
CODES
Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I
"the People's Paths home page!" - Living History - World War I & II Choctaw Code Talkers
Who were the Choctaw code talkers?
NSA - NCM: The DF Tractor Exhibit
SPECIFIC BIOS
Trenches on the Web - Biographies: Index
President Thomas Woodrow Wilson
King George V of Great Britain and Ireland
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE EXHIBITION 1863-1945
Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) - English Soldier and Author - More on Lawrence in the section below on the war in the Middle East.
General John J. "Blackjack" Pershing
Baron Manfred von Richthofen - The RED BARON
For bios on WWI Flying Aces(German, British, and American), try The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA & THE WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
British Policy Towards the Ottoman Empire
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Kitchener and Arab National Movement, 1912-1914
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey - 1914
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Hussein-MacMahon Letters
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Sykes-Picot Agreement
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Sykes-Picot Agreement: 1916
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: British White Paper of June 1922
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Palestine Mandate, 1922
The Hashemites: Jordan's Royal Family
ArabNet -- Palestine, History, British Mandate
The Surafend Affair HS Gullett
TIMELINE: Thomas Edward Lawrence
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) - English Soldier and Author
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Lawrence's Personal Notes on the Sherifial Family - 1916
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence - August 1917
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Report on Mesopotamia by T.E. Lawrence
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - QUOTES BY OTHERS
The Lawrence of Arabia Factfile
T.E. LAWRENCE / LAWRENCE OF ARABIA / FOREIGN LEGION
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - "A Durable Lawrence (TE)"
THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Tolerance.org: Teaching Tolerance: The World Was Silent
Frequently Asked Questions about the Armenian Genocide
Lessons and Readings on the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide Resource Guide
Reading: Genocide Under The Cover Of War
The Turkish Crime of our Century - The Armenian Genocide
The History Place - Armenians in Turkey
FULL REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE UPON THE ARBITRATION OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN TURKEY AND ARMENIA
Adolf Hitler to his Army commanders, August 22, 1939:
"Thus for the time being I have sent to the East only my 'Death's Head Units' with the orders to kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space (lebensraum) that we need. Who still talks nowdays about the Armenians?"
WOMEN & THE HOME FRONT DURING THE WAR
BBC - History: Home Front: World War One
Imperial War Museum Education Services - No Job for a Woman
Mobilizing woman-power, by Harriot Stanton Blatch
Canada in World War I - The Home Front
North Carolinians and the Great War: Introduction to the Home Front - access to some great primary sources!!
Martha Armstrong The Quest of Food Substitutes - Martha H. French Economy in Clothing. - Nannie F. Jeter What We Are Doing to Conserve Food and Keep Down Waste
Service Star flags (United States) - flags that were displayed in home windows that denoted "sons/daughters" in service with a blue star and gold star if the family member had given his/her life for his/her country.
Gold Star Moms - History - Gold Star Mothers/Sons in Service Flag
World War I Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimages
BBC - History - Women and the Military during World War One
POETRY, MUSIC, AND ART OF WAR
THE WAR POETRY WEB SITE - The First World War and Contemporary War Poetry
BBC - History - Wilfred Owen Audio Gallery
Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est - best known poem of the First World War - dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen and his Dulce Et Decorum Est
"Dulce Et Decorum Est", by Wilfred Owen
"Dulce Et Decorum Est", by Wilfred Owen
The War Poems & Manuscripts of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
Rupert Brooke and his WarSonnets
Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature of WWI
World War One Songs (WW1) Early Recordings From 1918 Victrola
MUSIC: America Goes to War Part 1 - Page 2
A list of songs popular during World War 1
Sheet Music from Canada's Past: First World War Era
Search World War One Era Sheet Music
1914-18 war - Art of the First World War
1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - List of painters
1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 105 - Otto Dix
More art above in sections on Images and Propaganda.
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1918
The Bubonic Plague may be more famous, but the Influenza epidemic that began in 1918 killed 25 million people in one year!! This article begins with a brief description of the Plague, but then gives some facts on the awful pandemic of 1918.
**** The American Experience | Influenza 1918
Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
LEAGUE OF NATIONS - WILSON'S 14 POINTS
League of Nations Fight - A Chronology
President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" (1918)
The Avalon Project : President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
TIMELINE: League of Nations Fight
World War I, The League of Nations Protocol
The Avalon Project : The Covenant of the League of Nations
The Senate and the League of Nations
VERSAILLES TREATY
Avalon Project - The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919
First World War.com - Primary Documents - Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919
The Versailles Treaty of June 28, 1919
The Treaty of Versailles (1919)
The Peace Treaty of Versailles
Versailles Treaty, 1919 (by Article)
The Treaty of Versailles (1919)
A German View of the Treaty of Versailles
The Effect of the Versailles Treaty
Key Articles from the 1919 Treaty of Versailles that Would Cause World War II
Reparations and War Guilt -- Treaty of Versailles 1919
The World, Political Realignment MAP, 1919
Europe, Political Realignment MAP, 1919
Map of Germany after World War I and the Versailles Peace treaty (1919)
Maps, Charts, Photos and Cartoons Relating to the Versailles Treaty
WALK THE PLANK GAME: The Effects of the Treaty of Versailles - Weimar Germany
MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS & OTHER MEDALS
WORLD WAR I MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENTS
AFTERMATH AND THINGS TO COME....
Reparations and War Guilt -- Treaty of Versailles 1919
Key Articles from the 1919 Treaty of Versailles that Would Cause World War II
The Effect of the Versailles Treaty
A German View of the Treaty of Versailles
The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s
History of Europe between the Two World Wars 1918-1942 : Europe after World War I
The World at War - Global Timeline 1918-48
TIMELINE: Dictatorial Regimes between the World Wars
MAP: Europe on the Eve of World War II
VERSAILLES TREATY to POLISH BLITZKRIEG 1919-1939
NORTH RUSSIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 1918-1919
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Appendices, Status of the Russian Fleet, 1918
Washington Conferences (1921 - 1922)
Far Eastern Strategy and The Washington Conference of 1921-22
CONFERENCE ON THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT, 1922.
The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s, part 1 and part 2
First World War - The Heritage of The Great War 1914 1918
Aftermath: When the Boys Came Home
African American Odyssey: World War I and Postwar Society
Aftermath: The Unknown Warrior (page one)
German Secret Rearmament, 1934-5
British and German Air Doctrine Between the Wars
U.S. Military History: Between World Wars
Foundations of the Modern State and Society, 1914-1929
WHAT IF Germany Won World War I? - Alternative History
WALK THE PLANK GAME: The Effects of the Treaty of Versailles - Weimar Germany
VARIOUS WWI TOPICS
Trenches on the Web - Trivia and Slang of the Period
Inventors and the First World War
The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919
German Policy in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
Patricia A. Ferguson: Fighting on All Fronts Leo Amery WWI
Diggers-Lords of Battle:The Australian Army in World War I
The Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey
The Canadian Military Heritage Project - WWI
The Canadian Great War Homepage - WarMuseum.ca - Canada and the First World War
Courage Remembered: The World Wars through Canadian Eyes
History of one WWI Veteran - My Grandfather
African American Military Service WWI
SOME OTHER SUPER WWI SITES
***** World War I - Trenches on the Web
The Great War - HELLFIRE CORNER - The First World War (The Great War)
***** Public Television's site dedicated to its documentary, The Great War
WWI World War One Resource Centre
SnapShots - America in World War I
World War I Resources (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
The Great War - one of my favorite PBS Documentaries ever made.
First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One
The First World War 1914-1918 (The Great War, World War 1)
BBC - History - World War One (Part of BBC - History - World Wars)
World War I Digital Library - Electronic Publications
BBC News | World War I | The Great War: 80 years on
The Doughboy Center - General Headquarters
The Great European and World War
First World War Glossary of British Terms
World War I by Professor Gerhard Rempel
Liberty Memorial Museum Online
World War I, Links to Other Resources
Links to Other World War I Sites
world war one,the great war, Kyles homepage
Hellfire Corner - the Great War - Links to Other Sites
Pershing's Doughboys Main Page
Great War Militaria: World War One Artifacts, Reproductions, and Reenactment Units
Australian War Memorial - First World War Official Histories
First World War [Australian War Memorial] - Australian Military Statistics