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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The First World War

Internet Exercises

How the war began, July 1914

Use the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia, the Russian advice to Serbia, and the Serbian response to the Austrian ultimatum to explain the outbreak of World War I.



Link 1
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/austro-hungarian-ultimatum.html)

Link 2
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/russmemo.html)

Link 3
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1914/serbresponse.html)

Gas Attack

Compare and contrast the eyewitness account and images of the first experience of poison gas in combat.



Link 1
(http://greatwar.topcities.com/First_Gas_Attack/First_Gas_Attack_01.htm)

Gallipoli and the historians

How have Turkish, Australian and British historians understood the battle of Gallipoli?



Link 1
(http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/images/map8.gif)

Link 2
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1915/gallpoli.html)

Link 3
(http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews/tun1.html)

Link 4
(http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews/wilson1.html)

Link 5
(http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews/winter5.html)

Ethnic cleansing

Discuss the treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the first world war.



Link 1
(http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/docs/bryce.htm)

American debate on intervention, 1917

Analyze the debate about entering the war between the Secretary of State, the President, and a senator.



Link 1
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/cabmtg.html)

Link 2
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/wilswarm.html)

Link 3
(http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1917/norris.html)

Soldier Songs and Poetry

Use popular songs and the poems of Wilfrid Owen and Rupert Brooke to analyze how young men came to grips with the war.



Link 1
(http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/memoir/macgill.html)

Link 2
(http://www.pitt.edu/~novosel/owen.html)

Link 3
(http://info.ox.ac.uk/departments/humanities/rose/great.html#soldier)

German Propaganda

Using a variety of objects, discuss how ordinary Germans on the home front "saw" the war.



Link 1
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/96003688/index.jpg)

Link 2
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/96003700/index.jpg)

Link 3
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/pl002758/index.jpg)

Link 4
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/96002025/index.jpg)

Link 5
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/pk005426/index.jpg)

Link 6
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/pl003487/index.jpg)

Link 7
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/kg000017/index.jpg)

Link 8
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/91-630/index.jpg)

Link 9
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/pli02565/index.jpg)

Link 10
(http://greatwar.topcities.com/Postcards_German_Sweethearts/Postcards_German_Sweethearts_0... )

War Art

Why and how did artists interpret the war?



Link 1
(http://www.art-ww1.com/trame/014text.html)

Link 2
(http://www.art-ww1.com/trame/072text.html)

Link 3
(http://www.art-ww1.com/trame/086text.html)

Link 4
(http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/g0001162/)

Link 5
(http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/interviews/winter13.html)









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