J1.+World+War+I

This is the Powerpoint I created that we're going through in class. [|WWI Powerpoint]

This is a copy of the Swearing In Ceremonial Words for a German soldier!!! Note the intense nationalistic loyalty demanded! This next link is another teacher's Wiki, but has some good material; ignore the dodgeball comments... Some guy's Wiki; good explanation of telegrams

More definitive material on the "Willy-Nicky" telegrams [|More Willy-Nicky]

The amazing Willy-Nicky Telegrams... did the ruling class in Europe have the ability to stop the slide into war?

This is Kaiser Wilhelm II's version of what happened in these days before the outbreak. NOTE: a strong argument for the belief that war would never break out...

This is the reading and assignment for understanding the complicated series of alliances begun by Bismarck to try and maintain peace so Germany could get a strong foothold after unification in 1872

A significant amount of poetry has been written by soldiers who fought in WWI. Here is some of it:





This is a short explanation of the Turkish genocide against the Christian Armenian population, part of the legacy of religious inequalities and hatreds from the Ottoman Empire's past.

This is a short reading about one of the most amazing soldiers of the war, a German general, who with only a few German soldiers and a few hundreds of natives who were loyal to them, held down more than 1/2 million troops of the British Empire for over three years!!!



This is the Balfour Declaration, which was interpreted to mean that the British supported the creation of a Jewish state or "national homeland" in Palestine, part of the Zionist cause and agenda, in return for the financial, material, and recruiting support of the Jewish communities in WWI.



The following is a map of the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, done in secret, and against the promises made to the Arabs for their mass revolt against the Turks. It divided the mid-East into mandates, areas controlled by the European powers, which was widely viewed as imperialistic and hypocritical in the extreme. It led to great distrust of Europeans among the peoples of the mid-East for decades (maybe until now), and was divided up by the wishes of the Europeans, not necessarily with the best interests of the inhabitants in mind.



Much has been made of the high ideals of the United States intervening in WWI to make it safe for democracy. Read this: a counter-argument with strong supports!



This is a fact sheet on the Versailles Treaty that covers all the significant points you should know and be aware of having happened.