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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.
Gas Attack
Compare and contrast the eyewitness account and images of the first experience of poison gas in combat.
Gallipoli and the historians
How have Turkish, Australian and British historians understood the battle of Gallipoli?
American debate on intervention, 1917
Analyze the debate about entering the war between the Secretary of State, the President, and a senator.
German Propaganda
Using a variety of objects, discuss how ordinary Germans on the home front "saw" the war.
War Art
Why and how did artists interpret the war?