Michigan in WWI Primary Sources
American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
Library of Congress
Digital collection of excerpts from political speeches.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-i-and-1920-election-recordings/about-this-collection/
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
NBC-TV/Encyclopedia Britannica Films
Documentary from the 1950s, narrated by Herbert Hoover, on the life of Woodrow Wilson.
https://archive.org/details/ordealofwoodrowwilson
Versailles Newsreels
British Pathé
Newsreels covering the Versailles peace conference and its repercussions.
https://britishpathe.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/versailles/
League of Nations Photo Archive
Indiana University
A look into the events and overall climate in the United States prior to entering the war.
http://www.indiana.edu/~league/
Topics in Chronicling America: WWI Declarations
Library of Congress
A collection of newspaper articles announcing declarations of war at the start of WWI.
https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/ww1declarations.html
The World War I Document Archive
Michigan WWI General Resources
The Great War: A Visual History
American Battle Monuments Commission
Significant events from the war shown on an interactive map and timeline.
https://www.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/interactive/interactive_files/WW1/index.html
The USA Before Joining WWI
The Great War Channel
A look into the events and overall climate in the United States prior to entering the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57JKPEryvXQ&feature=youtu.be&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxNUxpltTT98mcQlIqyVzfjG
WWI Leaders
HISTORY.com
Photo gallery and descriptions of world leaders during the war.
Kaiser Wilhelm II: The Last German Emperor
The Great War Channel
An introduction to Kaiser Wilhelm II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKe8WYiHCao
Breaking News: Austrian Heir and His Wife Murdered
National WWI Museum and Memorial
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand presented as a modern-day news story.
https://theworldwar-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/s3fs-public/June28_1914_BreakingNews.pdf
Tanks in WWI
Library of Congress
A collection of newspaper articles on the newly invented tank.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/tanks.html
Flying Yanks: American Airmen in WWI
American Battle Monuments Commission
An interactive look at the evolution of aviation during WWI.
https://www.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/interactive/interactive_files/FY/
Battle of the Somme
Epic History
Video on the brutal first day of the Somme Offensive in 1914.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqvALkpsfRo
Ypres-Lys Offensive
American Battle Monuments Commission
Battle interactive following the paths of American forces in 1918 as they fought alongside the Allies to liberate Belgium and northeastern France.
https://www.abmc.gov/sites/default/files/interactive/interactive_files/YL_Website/
WWI Warfare
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
WWI combat footage from the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive.
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004540
The Volunteers: Americans Join WWI
AFS Intercultural Programs
Full unit on American involvement in WWI
http://thevolunteers.afs.org/lesson-plans/#
WWI Lesson Plans
Uncovering a World at War
Uncovering a World at War
National History Day
Students use newspaper articles to examine Americans' stances for and against joining the war.
https://www.nhd.org//sites/default/files/Chronicling-America-LP.pdf
Americans on the Homefront Helped Win the War
National Archives DOCSTeach
Students match documents to visualize ways that Americans contributed to the war effort on the homefront.
https://www.docsteach.org/activities/teacher/americans-on-the-homefront-helped-win-world-war-i
The Debate in the United States over the League of Nations
National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment!
An investigation into why Congress rejected the League of Nations. Students compare speeches by Woodrow Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge.
https://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/debate-united-states-over-league-nations
U.S. Entry into WWI Text Comparison
Stanford History Education Group
A lesson analyzing the factors that led to America's entry into WWI. Students to compare a textbook entry with a speech from Woodrow Wilson and an excerpt from Howard Zinn's A People’s History of the United States.
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons/us-entry-wwi
The Zimmerman Telegram
National Archives DOCSTeach
Students examine the Zimmerman Telegram to determine whether the United States should enter the war based on its information and implications.
https://www.docsteach.org/activities/teacher/the-zimmermann-telegram?mode=browse&menu=closed&era%255B%255D=the-emergence-of-modern-america&page=2
Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy
National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment!
A four-lesson unit covering the successes and failures of Wilson’s policies and their lasting importance in international relations.
https://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/woodrow-wilson-and-foreign-policy
The Great War: Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment!
Students use primary sources, maps, and supporting documents to examine the treaty and the troubled postwar peace that followed.
https://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/great-war-evaluating-treaty-versailles
The Opper Project: The League of Nations
Ohio State University
Students learn about the League of Nations and the surrounding controversy through editorial cartoons.
http://hti.osu.edu/opper/lesson-plans/league-of-nations
1914: Identifying Players and Perspectives-A World War 1 Collaborative Activity
MacArthur Memorial
Students use newspaper headlines, quotes, photos, political cartoons, and posters to identify mystery countries and learn the roles and perspectives of European countries at the start of the war.
http://macarthurmemorial.org/DocumentCenter/View/1416
In Their Shoes: WWI Through the Eyes of Early Participants
MacArthur Memorial
Students are assigned a profile of an individual who played a role in the conflict, and they keep a journal from that person's perspective throughout the WWI unit.
http://macarthurmemorial.org/DocumentCenter/View/1862
Woodrow Wilson: War and Peace
PBS American Experience
Lesson complementing the PBS American Experience documentary The Great War, examining President Wilson's reasons for entering the war.
https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex29gw-soc-usaenters/the-great-war-the-united-states-enters-world-war-i-american-experience/?#.Wql8QmCGMSV
