World War I Topics : Table of Contents

Mr. Truding's Project Resources

Political

Conditions / Events | Key Battles | Medals / Honors

Weaponry

Air weapons | Naval Weapons | Ground Weapons

Battlefield Life

Trench Warfare | Medical Care | Communication

Social

Air Aces | Women | Literature / Art | Inventors | Terms

Other WW I Resources
Pictures of World War I

Other WW I Resources:

EyeWitness To World War I

BBC History - World War One

PBS: The Great War

Library of Congress: American Leaders Speak

World War I -Trenches on the Web

World War I Documents Archive

The Great War Series

More Resources on The Great War

 

Encyclopaedia of The First World War

World Book Online -W.W.I

World History: HyperHistory

Political

Conditions/Events
Key Battles
Medals/Honors

Conditions/Events

Alliances

Causes of World War I

World War I - Military Alliances

World War I - Causes and Background

World War I - The Alliances

 

American Neutrality

Declaration of Neutrality

About the USA - U. S. History: War, Prosperity, & The Big Crash

American Neutrality

The American's Creed

The Great War Erupts in Europe

 

 

Sinking of Lusitania

RMS Lusitania

Lusitania Controversy: The Sinking of Lusitania

Lusitania Controversy (Picture)

Lusitania on Encyclopedia.com 2002

Dark Shadow: The Sinking of Lusitania

Lusitania

British liner Lusitania sunk by German U-boat, May 1915

 

Archduke Ferdinand

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Archduke Francis Ferdinand is Assassinated: 1914

Assassination of an Archduke, 1914

A Road to War

Who2 Profile: Archduke Ferdinand

 

Enlistments / Casualties

NARA: Enlistment W.W.I

Armies 1914: Sizes of Armies

World War I and the original memorials

Trenches on the Web-Timeline: 1914-1918-Casualty Figures

Casualties in W.W.I

Casualties in World War I

Casualties: First World War

United States Casualties

First World War Losses

The World War I: Losses

Encyclopaedia of the First World War: Statistics

 

Propaganda

World War I Propaganda

American Propaganda During World War I

Propaganda Analysis: W.W.I Propaganda

Propaganda Postcards of the Great War (W.W.I)

Trenches on the Web-World War I Posters

World War I Posters-Artists Mobilizing the Home Front

Political Cartoons & Posters

Propaganda Posters

First Worldwar.com: Propaganda Posters: countries listed on left side.

District 67's WWI Political Cartoon / Posters / Pictures Web Page

 

 

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty of Versailles : Slide 46,

Slide 47 ,Slide 48,

Menu for Treaty of Versailles

Versailles Treaty Contents

BBC-History-Versailles and Peacemaking

Treaty of Versailles-WW1-from learn.co.uk

 

 

Key Battles

 

Somme ( July - Nov. 1916)

The Battle of Somme (1916)

The Battle of The Somme

Battle of the Somme

Battles: The Battle of the Somme, 1916

BBC News: The Somme: Hell on Earth

Somme: The Plan

Somme: The Practice

BBC-History-Battle of Somme (1st July-13th Nov 1916)

 

Verdun ( Feb. - Dec. 1916)

Verdun

Battle of Verdun

BBC News: Verdun: Symbol of Suffering

Battle of Verdun

Battles: The Battle of Verdun, 1916

The Battle of Verdun--the greatest battle ever

BBC - History- Battle of Verdun (21 Feb. 1916 - July 1916)

 

Jutland (May 1916)

Battle of Jutland

Battle of Jutland

Battle of Jutland

Battles: The Battle of Jutland, 1916

BBC-History-WWI-The Battle of Jutland

Table of Contents : Battle of Jutland

(Contains link to photos of battle)

 

Amiens (Aug. 1918)

Amiens

First World War: Amiens

First World War.com: On This Day: 8 August 1918

William Brown: Amiens

 

Gallipoli (Apr. 1915 - Jan. 1916)

Gallipoli Battle

Gallipoli Landings

BBC - History -Battle of Gallipoli (Feb. 1915-Jan. 1916)

BBC News: Gallipoli: Heat and Thirst

Gallipoli

Battle At Gallipoli

Battles: The Gallipoli Front

Gallipoli

Gallipoli Anzac Helles Suvla

Gallipoli/The River Clyde Landing

 

Passchendaele (July 1917)

Passchendaele

Battlefields: Passchendaele

Battles: The Third Battle of Ypres, 1917

BBC News: Passchendaele: Drowning in Mud

BBC-History-Battle of Passchendaele (31st July-6th Nov 1917)

Road to Passchendaele

Medals/Honors

Victoria Cross

Victoria Cross Reference

Victoria Cross (VC) Great Britain

 

Distinguished Flying Cross

Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC: Great Britain)

 

Legion d'Honneur

Légion d'Honneur (Legion of Honor)

 

Medal of Honor

World WarI Medal of Honor Recipients

History of the Medal of Honor

 

Military Cross

Military Cross (MC: Great Britain)

 

Croix de Guerre

Croix de Guerre (War Cross Belgium)

Croix de Guerre (War Cross: France)

 

Distinguished Service Cross

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC: Great Britain)

 

Iron Cross

Iron Cross (Germany)

Weaponry

Air weapons
Naval Weapons
Ground Weapons
Air Weapons

Trenches on the Web-Special: Dirigibles, Airships, Zeppelins & Blimps

Army Zeppelin LZ85

USAF Museum W.W.I History Gallery

(Good video and history of US Army Air Service during W.W.I)

Ferdinand Von Zeppelin

Zeppelin ZI

Zeppelin Raids

Trenches on the Web-Armory: Zeppelins

Weapons of War: Airplane

Dogfights

Parachutes

Synchronizing Gear

Bombers

Birth of Strategic Bombings

Strategic Bombings

Observation Balloons

USAF Museum World War I: Era Aircraft Display Index

 

Naval Weapons

Trenches on the Web-Amory: U-boats

U-boat Attack

Weapons of War: The U-boat

U-boats

U-boat Attack, 1916

U-Boat Operations - Wolfpacks

 

 

Torpedo Boats

Torpedo

Torpedo

 

Destroyers

 

Cruisers

Battle cruisers

Scout Cruisers

Town Cruisers

 

Dreadnought Battleship

Trenches on the Web-Timeline: 1905-1914-The Dreadnought Race

US War ships names

Battleship Photo Index: Turret

Battleships - WW1 Naval Combat

Pre and Post-Dreadnought battleships

 

Troop Ship

 

Ground Weapons

World War One Weapons: New Technology

Tanks:

Tank Development

Weapons of War : The Tanks

1918 Tanks

Developing the Tank

Mark V Tank

Car Schneider Tank

List of Tanks used in W.W.I

(Scroll down and find Tanks)

 

Weapons of War - Flame throwers

Weapons of the Elite: Flame Thrower

First World War.com -Flamethrowers

  

Machine Gun in the Trenches

Trenches on the Web-Armory: Guns

Weapons of War-Machine Guns

Machine-Guns

Heavy Machine Guns

Vickers Machine Gun

Maxim Machine Gun

Trenches on the Web-Armory: Big Guns of the Great War

Weapons of War-Rifles

Bolt Action Rifle

Lee Enfield Rifle

Springfield Rifle

Colt .45 Automatic Pistol

Webley Pistol

Weapons of War - Pistols

Luger Pistol

 

Artillery

Artillery : Big Bertha

Photo Big Bertha Damage

This photograph shows a site in Paris completely demolished by bombardment from the

German "Big Bertha" artillery. Those guns could fire shells from as far away as 75 miles.

Image 1 of Big Bertha ; Image 2 ; Image 3 ; Image 4 ; Image 5

Artillery: Grenades

Artillery: Howitzer

Artillery: Skoka Howitzer

Artillery: Mills Bombs

Trenches on the Web-Armory: Artillery

 

Military Cavalry Prints

Georg von der Marwitz: Cavalry Commander

 

The Role of Horse

 

Mustard Gas

Mustard Gas

Mustard Gas Poisoning

Chlorine Gas

Gas Warfare

Trenches on the Web-Armory: Gas Warfare

Gas Attack, 1916

The Use of Poison Gas

Casualties of Gas Weapons

Preparation for Gas Attack

Weapons of War - Poison Gas

Weapons of War: Gas

Death on the Wind: Gas Warfare

Picture of British Gas Casualties

 

Uniforms/Equipment

Field Gear

Uniforms

US World War I Uniforms

US W.W.I Overcoats (officer and enlisted)

Technology in the War

Technology and War

 

Trenches on the Web-Special: US Defensive Grenades in W.W.I

Weapons of War - Grenades

 

Tracer Rounds: (Look for Tracer)

 

Smokeless Gunpowder: (Look for Smokeless Powder)

Weapons in World War One

Alfred Nobel Peace: Smokeless Gunpowder

 

Battlefield Life

Trench Warfare
Medical Care
Communication

War in the Mud

Trench Warfare

 

First World War.com: No Man's Land

Photos of Trenches and Trench Warfare

Trench Life

Life in the Trenches

Trench Warfare

Tommy's Life in the Trenches

Trenches on the Web-Armory: Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare in World War One

BBC-History -World War One Trench

Trench Life I

Experience of War - Trench Warfare

W.W.I Trench Warfare

 

Trench Construction (talks about other wars also)

 

Tunneling

 

Periscope

 

Barbed Wire

History 20: Barbed Wire

 

Sniper: Find Sniper

First World War.com: Snipers

 

Light Flares

Flares

 

Land mines

Mines Battlefield Scene 20a (Talks about mines)

Landmines Look for "1st generation landmines"

 

Medical Care

 

Trench Warfare: Medical Care

Encyclopedia-Trench Fever

Stretcher

World War I Ambulances

An Ambulance Driver in France

Harry L. Smith. Memoirs of an Ambulance Company Officer

21st General Hospital-Base Hospital 21

W.W.I Fany at the Western Front: Ambulances

The Medical History of WW1: Ambulance Services & Stretcher Bearers

Literary Ambulance Drivers : World War I

A History of Chemical Warfare

BBC History Shell Shock during World War One

World War I: A New Kind of War: Shell Shock

Shell Shock During World War One

 

Communication

 

A Runner's Story

Trench Runners

Images of World War I: The Western Front

First World War.com: Carrier Pigeons

Memoir of a Radio Operator

Communication Trenches

First World War Communications

 

History 20: Motorcycles

The Bikes of War

Harley-Davidson Motorcycles (Find W.W.I)

 

Social

Air Aces
Women
Literature/

Art

Inventors
Terms
Air Aces

Edward Rickenbacker

(Medal of Honor)

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker - US Air Force

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker

 

William Bishop

(Victoria Cross)

Trenches on the Web : Bio: William Bishop

First World War.com: Who's Who: William Bishop

 

Manfred von Richthofen

(Iron Cross)

Trenches on the Web: Bio: Baron Manfred von Richthofen

Richthofen

AWho2 Profile: Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred Frhr von Richthofen

Baron Manfred von Richthofen-US Air Force

 

Max Immelmann

(Iron Cross)

Max Immelmann

First World War.com: Who's Who: Max Immelmann

Immelmann

 

Albert Ball

(Victoria Cross & Military Cross)

Albert Ball, VC

Albert Ball

 

Alvin C. York Institute

(Croix de Guerre)

Hero Profile: Alvin York

Trenches on the Web: Bio: Sergeant Alvin C. York

 

Women

Factory (Scroll down to find picture of women working in factories)

W.W.I Signal Corps Women

Women & The US Navy--World War I

Nurses and The US Navy

Different Worlds: Pictures of the Past : Women in Wartime

Nurse Helen Fairchild: My Aunt, My Hero

First World War (Scroll down and look for "Women and The War.")

First World War: Women and War

BBC-History-Women and the Military During W.W.I

Thirty Thousand Women Were There

Women Overseas Volunteers

Women in the Great War

Women were vital to military success in war

 

Literature/Art

Poet Index for Representative poetry On-Line

Siegfried Sassoon

BBC-History Siegfried Sassoon biography

Biography of Siegfried Sassoon

The Hero, Poem by Siegried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Siegfried Sassoon

 

Wilfred Owen

BBC-History-Wilfred Owen biography

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

War Poems and Manuscripts by Wilfred Owen

First World War : War Literature

First World War: War Art

Selected Poetry of Wilfred Owen (1893-Nov. 4, 1918)

 

Flanders Field

In Flanders Field, Lt. Colonel John McCrae

Flanders Poppy

Flanders Field

 

Inventors

Hiram Maxim

No. 694: Hiram Maxim

First World War.com: Who's Who: Sir Hiram Maxim

Maxim, Hiram Stevens

Hiram Maxim Writings and Inventions from Cornell Univ. (Find Maxim)

 

Wilhelm Gottlieb Daimler

Gottlieb Daimler

Gottllieb Daimler's 1885 Motorcycle

 

Anthony Fokker

Anton Fokker

Anthony Fokker: Biography

 

Richard Jordan Gatling

Richard Gatling: Biography of Richard Gatling

Richard Jordan Gatling

Guns Firearms and Ammunition History

Gatling, Richard Jordan

 

Ernst Heinkel

Ernest Heinkel

 

Guglielmo Marconi

A Science Odyssey: People & Discoveries: Guglielmo Marconi

Marconi Biography

The Invention of Radio

 

Benjamin Hotchkiss

Benjamin Berkely Hotchkiss

 

John Moses Browning

Guns Firearms and Ammunition History

John M. Browning

Utah History Encyclopedia: Browning

 

Hugo Junkers

Photo of Hugo Junkers

The Hugo Junkers Homepage (Scroll down to find Biography)

 

Terms

First World War Glossary

W.W.I Glossary

Glossary of Firearms Terminology

Creeping Barrage

Pictures

ThinkQuest: Photos of the Great War

Pictures from the Great War page 1

USAF Museum World War I: Era Aircraft Display Index

World War One Photos and Artillery

Google Image Search - Type in World War I or topic name

Corbi--Stock Photography and Pictures - Type in World War I or topic name

The Amazing Picture Machine - Type in World War I or topic name

Mr. Truding's Project Resources

SCORE Resources DB

Casualties: First World War

The Treaty of Versailles

Financial Cost of the First World War

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

The World War I Document Archive

The Peace Treaty of Versailles

World War I, Links to Other Resources

look for your country.

The Great War: Interviews -Wohl: Woodrow Wilson

Treaty of Versailles -WWI World War 1(learn.co.uk)

look for your country

First World War.com-The Minor Powers During W W 1

look for your country

Trenches on the Web-War Atlas: Index

Russia in WWI

France in the Great War

Glossary of Events WWI: Russia

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