Topics for Developing Global History Social Problems

World War I and II (1900—1945)

Nationalism, Imperialism, Conflict, Diversity, Political Systems

General/All Sub-headings:

PBS' "The Great War" web pages about WWI, including information from television series, maps showing territories held by the warring powers during the war, interviews with historians, and an interactive timeline:

http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/

Colonel House's May, 1914 Report to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson about the situation in Europe (excerpt):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/colhouse.html

Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo - background and events of this crucial date in history (June 28, 1914 ) which led to WWI:

http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/comment/sarajevo.html

German Declaration of War on Russia (Aug. 1, 1914):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/germandecruss.html

Belgian Refusal of Free Passage (Aug. 3, 1914):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/belgsayno.html

British Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey's Speech to the House of Commons (Aug. 3, 1914):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/greytalk.html

French President Poincaré's War Message (Aug. 4, 1914):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/poincare.html

Clemenceau Calls France to Arms (Aug. 4, 1914):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/clemenso.html

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality (Aug. 19, 1914):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/wilsonneut.html

German Lieut. Weddigen's Account of the U-9 Submarine Attack (Sept. 22, 1914):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/u-9.html

President Wilson's First Warning to the Germans (Feb. 10, 1915):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/strict.html

Wilson's First "Lusitania" Note to Germany (May 13, 1915):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/lusitania1.html

President Wilson's War Message (Apr. 2, 1917):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/wilswarm.html

President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" Address to Congress (Jan. 8, 1918):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/14points.html

The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points (Nov. 5, 1918):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/allies14.html

The New York Times Reports the End of the War (Nov. 9-11, 1918):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918/nytend.html

The Peace Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) (including The covenant of the League of Nations):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/versailles.html

Wilson's address to Congress on the League of Nations:

http://www.multied.com/documents/Wilson1919.html

League of Nations Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, signed in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 2, 1920:

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918p/pacific.html

Protocol for the Prohibition of Poisonous Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (Geneva, June 17, 1925):

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918p/bactpois.html

British Website providing complete chronology of WW II events, from 1939 to 1945

http://www.unverse.com/WW2.html

The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference, July 17-Aug. 2, 1945 - Document/Protocol of the Proceedings (including, in "Annex II, part (b)," near end: Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, July 26, 1945:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/decade/decade17.htm

Observations of World Leaders and others present at the Potsdam Conference, on Stalin's reaction to Truman's news about the U.S. possessing a "new weapon of unusual destructive force" and what Stalin really understood this to mean:

http://www.dannen.com/decision/potsdam.html

President Truman's Diary and Papers written after the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in April, 1945- Excerpts, including arriving at the decision to use the bomb on Japan:

http://www.doug-long.com/hst.htm

U.S. President Harry Truman's public papers, including his Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japanese cities (1945), at Truman Presidential Library's website:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/trumanpapers/frameset/index.htm

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation website - in-depth analysis of background, events, development of the atomic bomb by the U.S. (Manhattan Project), testing, the decision to use the bomb against Japan, and lasting consequences:

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/bombing-hiroshima.html

(Russia)

Library of Congress Exhibit: "Revelations from the Russian Archives" Exhibit covering internal developments in 20^th Century Russia, and Soviet-U.S. relations before, during, and after WW II:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html

Nationalism, Diversity:

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website for middle school and high school students, organized by topics "Nazi Rule," "Jews in Prewar Germany," "Nazi Camp System," and "Rescue and Resistance":

http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/

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General Resources - Multiple Time Periods and Subjects:

New York State High School Regents Exam Prep Center, Global History & Geography web pages - offers about 50 internet resource links:

http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/global.cfm

U.S. Dept. of Ed. "Social Studies Categories" web pages providing links in multiple categories, including "World History" (scroll down subject list to this topic) :

http://www.ed.gov/free/s-social2.html#United

Teacher Resources:

The Gateway to Educational Materials - Lesson plans and education resources, searchable by grade and subject matter:

http://thegateway.org/

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