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TIMELINES (Most also have info on the War)
Trenches on the Web - Timeline: Index
TIMELINE: Events Leading to the Great War, 1870-1914
TIMELINE: World War One Chronology
TIMELINE: 28-Jun-1914 - Assassination in Sarajevo
U.S. Involvement in World War I
Time Line
America Over There in WWI
More timelines below under specific topic headings.
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
De-coded 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
More primary documents available under specific subject headings listed below.
FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS
AND LETTERS
U-boat
Attack, 1916
World War One Letters Home
Jack Turner's War
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.
World War I
Letters
American
Experience | War Letters
Cecil Slack and the Great War
The History of a WWI Soldier
BBC
- History - The Human Face of War
Views of War, from A
Soldier's Diary: the Diary of Benjamin Edgar Cruzan
STATISTICS - THE COST OF WAR
Casualties in WWI
The Great War in Numbers: Stats on WWI
First World War Statistics
Statistics for WWI
HELLFIRE CORNER - The Great War - Impact - Statistics
Financial Cost of the First World War
Casualties: First World War
USA
Army Deaths: 1914-1918
Australian
Military Statistics
More WWI stats, plus stats from other US wars can be found on my Military
History, Info, Stats page.
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 Triple Alliance, 1882
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
Causes of World War I
Toward World War I in Europe to 1908
A Joyful Leap into World War I, 1911-1914
Lectures for World War I
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
Sarajevo, June 28, 1914
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 Begins
World War I, The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams
War and Neutral Rights
The Zimmerman Telegram
United States Enters World War I
The Nations Involved in the Great War
First World War: Political Leaders
World War I Overview
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
THE MAJOR PLAYERS
WWI Participants
First World War: Political Leaders
First World War: Military Leaders
Europe: 1914
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
The Schlieffen Plan
First World War Tactics
BATTLEFIELDS
ANIMATED MAP: Western Front
The Static Front
Hellfire Corner - The Great War - Battlefield Guide - Charles Fair
Battles of the First World War
First World War: Military Leaders
World War I Battlefields
Tragedy on the Somme - Battle of the Somme - The importance of the Battle of the Somme - the Somme
Passchendaele
Vimy Ridge
Cambrai
German Policy in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
The Gallipoli Association
Jordan - History - The Great Arab Revolt - more on the war in the Middle East HERE.
THE WEAPONS & TROOPS
First World War Weapons
1913 Armory Show
Trenches on the Web - Armory
ARMIES OF THE WESTERN FRONT 1914
Basic Training
Delousing
Leave
The Aerodrome - Aces and Aircraft of World War I
Air Warfare
Artillery
Artillery
Gas Warfare
Guns
US Defensive Grenades in WWI
Naval
Tank Warfare
U-boats
U-boats - On patrol with U 35
Tanks - Page 1 - Page 2
Trench Warfare
Troops - Page 1 - Page 2
Sturmtruppen (Stormtroopers)
The Wheels for the AEF
Zeppelins
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
The
Static Front
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
The Trench
Lyrics to "Christmas in the
Trenches"
HELLFIRE CORNER - The Christmas
Truce - 1914
US Defensive Grenades in WWI
The Trenches at Messines 1916-17
British Trench Warfare 1917-1918
Armory: Trench Warfare
Trench
Warfare in World War One
Encyclopaedia
of the First World War: Trench War
Trench Poetry
and Songs
GAS WARFARE
Trenches on the Web - Armory: Gas Warfare
Mustard Gas Poisoning
Mustard Gas
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
Nurse Helen
Fairchild: My Aunt, My Hero
1918 - Medical
Personnel
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.
Air Warfare
BBC
- History - Dogfight Over the Trenches Virtual Tour
World War I Aviation Page
Zeppelins
Zeppelins
at War
WAR AT SEA
U-Boat war: 1914-1918
RMS Lusitania
Enter Lost Liners for more info on the Lusitania
World War One - The Maritime War
World War I - Naval Historical Center
Dreadnought
World War I Victory Medal
Fates of the German U-boats
THE U-BOAT WAR IN CARTOONS
U-boat Attack, 1916
Submarine Warfare - The Online Casebook
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
BRITISH NAVAL VESSELS LOST AT SEA, 1914-18
Royal Naval Division, British Royal Marines:1916 - 1918
IMAGES: Warship Gallery, Turn of the Century
IMAGES, MAPS, & AUDIO
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