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Chapter 24 - America and the Great War

Images and Maps

The Mexican Revolution

Map of the European Alliance System
(Scroll down.)

Trenches on the Web: Map Room

Maps: World War I

Photos of the Great War

Encyclopaedia of the First World War
(Spartacus Net)

The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
(Includes film clips)

World War I Songs

World War I Propaganda Posters

African American Odyssey: World War I and Postwar Society

Map: Aftermath of the First World War

Map: Losses in the First World War

American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920

Images from the Russian Revolution

Influenza 1918
(PBS)

Red Scare Image Database

 

Primary Sources

The Political Development of U.S. Neutrality Policy: Discussions Between President Wilson & Secretaries Bryan and Lansing, 1914-1915

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sir Edward Grey, January 22, 1915

U.S. Protests Against Maritime Warfare, 1914-1915

The First Lusitania Note to Germany, May 13, 1915

President Wilson's Protest to Germany, July 21, 1915.

William Jennings Bryan, "American Protest over the Sinking of the Lusitania"

Wilson on the Sussex Case, April 19, 1916

The Zimmerman Note to the German Minister to Mexico, January 19, 1917

Lansing's Memorandum of the Cabinet Meeting, Tuesday, March 20, 1917, 2.30-5 p.m.

Wilson's Speech for Declaration of War Against Germany, April 2, 1917

"The Americans Take Belleau Wood" by Edwin L. James, War Correspondent for The New York Times, June 9-10, 1918

President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

Fourteen Points Speech, Woodrow Wilson, January 8, 1918

President Wilson's Address to Congress, Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances, February 11, 1918

The New York Times Reports the End of the War, November 9-11, 1918

The Peace Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919

The U.S. Sedition Act, May 16, 1918

Schenck v. U.S. (1919)

George Creel on the Selling of the War, 1920

Ruth Gaines, Helping France. The Red Cross in the Devastated Area

Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations Speech

Henry Cabot Lodge, "Reservations with Regard to the Treaty"

Senate Response to the League of Nations

Robert Benchley, "The Making of a Red," March 15, 1919
(A satirical essay on the Red Scare)

 

Secondary Sources

Lusitania Controversy

Edward Blanchard, "The Western Front"
(This essay includes many maps.)

Peter Clowes, "Intrigue: A Fanatically Selfless Sense of Duty Drove Nurse Edith Cavell to Harbor Allied Soldiers behind German Lines"
(From Military History)

William Scheck, "The Wheels for the AEF"

Wartime Propaganda: World War I, The Committee on Public Information

Thomas Fleming, "Perspectives: When the United States Entered World War I, Propagandist George Creel Set Out to Stifle Anti-War Sentiment"
(From Military History)

 

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