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Invasion of Normandy

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ddayThe invasion of Normandy was the invasion and establishment of Allied forces in Normandy, France, during Operation Overlord in World War II.

 

World War II in the Aleutians

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World War in the Aleutians

William Walker: King of the 19th Century Filibusters

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For a man who assembled personal armies, invaded foreign lands and even carved out his own countries, William Walker wasn't much to look at.

Documents of World War II

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Documents of World War II

"Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993," by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy,
Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993

Peter Chen, World War II Database

World War II Timeline

BBC Online, World War II

US, Public Broadcasting System, "The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight it"

Adolf Hitler Historical Archive

World War II : Documents

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World War II : Documents
  • Agreement Between the Governments of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Provisional Government of the French Republic on Certain Additional Requirements to be Imposed on Germany; September 20, 1945

  • Agreement Between the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : July 12, 1941

  • Agreement for the Provisional Administration of Venezia Giulia; June 9, 1945

  • Agreement Relating to Prisoners of War and Civilians Liberated by Forces Operating Under Soviet Command and Forces Operating Under United States of America Command; February 11, 1945

  • Allied Control Commission in Hungary; January 20, 1945

  • Anglo-American Mutual Aid Agreement : February 28, 1942

  • Armistice Agreement with Bulgaria; October 28, 1944

  • Armistice Agreement with Hungary; January 20, 1945

  • Armistice Agreement with Italy; September 1943

  • Armistice Agreement with Rumania; September 12, 1944

  • Atlantic Charter

  • The Atlantic Conference - August 9-12, 1941 : Documents

  • President Roosevelt's Message To Congress on the Atlantic Charter

  • British War Blue Book

  • Cairo Conference

  • Casablanca Conference

  • Control Machinery in Austria; July 4, 1945

  • Coordinated Control of Merchant Shipping; August 5, 1944

  • Correspondence Between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the German Government August, 1939

  • Declaration by the Secretary of the Treasury on Gold Policy; February 22, 1944

  • Declaration by the United Nations, January 1, 1942

  • Declaration Regarding the Defeat of Germany and the Assumption of Supreme Authority by Allied Powers; June 5, 1945

  • Declarations of a State of War with Japan, Germany, and Italy

  • Directive to Commander-in-Chief of United States Forces of Occupation Regarding the Military Government of Germany; April 1945

  • F. D. Roosevelt's Statement on North African Policy

  • France's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland

  • Franco-German Armistice : June 25, 1940

  • French Yellow Book : Diplomatic Papers from September 29, 1938 to September 3, 1939

  • German Declaration of War with the United States : December 11, 1941

  • German Surrender Documents

  • Germany's Invasion of Poland

  • Great Britain's Response to Germany's Invasion of Poland

  • Inter-Allied Council Statement on the Principles of the Atlantic Charter : September 24, 1941

  • Japanese Surrender Documents

  • Joint Message of Assistance to the Soviet Union from President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill : August 15, 1941

  • Joint Resolution of the U.S. Congress Reaffriming the Principles of the Monroe Doctrine

  • Master Lend-Lease Agreement

  • Moscow Conference

  • Mutual Aid Agreement Between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : June 11, 1942

  • Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939 - 1941

  • Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

  • Pact Between the Axis Powers Barring a Separate Peace with the United States or Great Britian; December 11, 1941

  • Pearl Harbor - Documents

  • Polish-Soviet Union Agreements : July 30, 1941

  • Potsdam Conference, July 17-August 2, 1945

  • Proclamation of Unlimited National Emergency; May 27, 1941

  • The Quebec Conference, August 17-24, 1943 : Documents

  • The Quebec Conference, August 17-24, 1943 : Joint Statement

  • The Spanish Government and the Axis : Documents

  • Soviet-Japanese Neutrality and Denunciation

  • Tehran Conference

  • Treaty of Friendship Between Germany and Turkey; June 18, 1941

  • Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria : February 10, 1947

  • Treaty of Peace with Romania : February 10, 1947

  • Tripartite Pact and Associated Documents

  • Twenty-Year Mutual Assistance Agreement Between the United Kingdom and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics : May 26, 1942

  • War Trade Between Switzerland and the Axis Powers

  • The Washington Conference : 1941-1942 - Documents

  • The Yalta Conference

  • Yellow Book : French Diplomatic Papers from September 29, 1938 to September 3, 1939
  • Links to WWI Sites

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    General Information

    See especially the sitemap -- some annotations are in English.

     

    Bibliographies and Webographies

    • WWI Books - from U.C. San Diego History Department.
    • WWI Topics - from U.C. San Diego History Department.

     

    Genealogical Resources

     

    Literature

    An eclectic survey of the literature of the Great War.
    From an exhibit in BYU Library's Special Collections.
    Venice: Istituto Veneto di Arti Grafiche Venezia, 1919
    This site at Emory University includes a great number of digitized poems and postcards.
    An interactive research blog.
    By Margaret Wade Campbell Deland Boston: The American Authors Fund, [1914-1918]

     

    Maps and Atlases

    (New York: Macmillan, 1919).
    3 vols. (Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1915-1919). - auf Deutsch -
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    • Maps of World War I, offering detailed maps of war plans, battles, and political realignments (U.S. Military Academy).

     

    Music

     

    Visual Arts

    Art

    An astounding collection representing artists from Guillaume Apollinaire through Eric Kennington to Ossip Zadkine - UNESCO.
    Site maintained by the government of Ontario, Canada.


     

    Cartoons and Illustrated Books

    Cartoons of J.-P. Pinchon, vaguely reminiscent of Wilhelm Busch and his Max und Moritz
    (Paris: Gautier et Languereau, 1916)
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin's Digital History Collection.

    Between Shots

    by Captain P.L. Crosby
    with the 77th Division in France
    New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919
    • Cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather
    [Bairnsfather was the British "Bill Mauldin" of World War One]
    (London: "The Bystander" Tallis House, Whitefriars, & 190, Strand, n.d.)
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    The Bystander's Fragments from France
    The Bystander's Fragments from France, vol. IV
    Clippings from the Bystander, no. 5
    More Fragments from France, vol. II
    More Fragments from France, vol. 5
    Still More Bystander's Fragments from France, vol. III
    [Caricatures Designed to Enrage: Toward a Psychology of Entente]
    (Berlin: Curtius, 1917). - Foreword in German, cartoons in French -
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    London: Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, [1914-1918]
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    British propaganda cartoons on the German invasion of Belgium
    Digitally assembled at Brigham Young University.


     

    Film

    A film documentary examining the Western political intrigue that laid the foundation for wars, coups, revolts and military interventions in the Middle East.
    A clickable list of available films is found underneath the viewing window.
    A film documentary narrated by David Carridine.

    Photography, Photo Collections, Photo Essays

    (Leeds: Petty and Sons, n.d.)
    Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    (New York: The Committee for Men Blinded in Battle, 1917)
    Photographs and text digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    Photographic documents of the French Ministry of War's Photography Section.
    2 vols. (Paris: Ministère de la guerre, 1917)
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    [From Businessman to Man of War -- The Training of a British Soldier: Danish]
    (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, n.d.)
    Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    [Through Swamp and Jungle -- The British Campaign in Africa: Danish]
    (Bristol: Rankin Bros., n.d.)
    Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    [The War in Pictures -- March 1918 French ed. of Verdenskrigen i billeder (below)]
    (London: Illustrated London News & Sketch, 1918).
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    Accounts from Contemporary Books and Magazines, Photo Galleries and Illustrations.
    Picture of 18,000 Soldiers training at Fort Dodge, Iowa (click to enlarge).
    ["Hanging In There" -- British Women's Work in Wartime: Danish]
    (England: The Mendip Press, n.d.)
    Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    [Naval Watch Illustrated: The Unwavering Vigil of the British Fleet: Danish]
    (London: Harrison, Jehring and Co., n.d.).
    Photographs digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    [Illustrated History of the War of 1914] by Gabriel Hanotaux
    17 vols. (Paris: Gounouilhou, 1915-1924). - en français -
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    Hundreds of images digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    A visual tour of important WWI sites as they now appear.
    • Verdenskrigen i billeder [World War in Pictures: Danish]
    Subtitle added June-December 1918: ... fra de allieredes fronter [From the Allied Front]
    (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917-1918)
    Digitized in University of Wisconsin Digital History Collection.
    1917: October - November - December
    1918: January - February - . . . - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December
    London: The Over-Seas Club, [1914-1918]
    Photos from the German trenches by Hans Hildenbrand, presented by Spiegel Online International with an English interface.
    Digital facsimiles of the collection at New York Public Library.
    Including French images from Gallica, the online service of the French National Library.

    Posters

    War Poster Collection. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
    Posters, Photos, Poets and Artists.

    By Country

    Australia

    • The Australian Archives: From this page can be located Australian WWI serving personnel records, along with memorials and other records of Australian participation in the Great War.
    • The Australian Defence Force Academy: Includes access to the 'First AIF Database Project' which... seeks to record comprehensive information on all 332,000 men and women (i.e. nurses) who served in the the Australian Imperial Force 1914-19.
    A subset of Australian Army War Diaries from the Australian War Memorial.

     

    Belgium

    • Fort de Liezele. Belgium - 1908-1914; concrete fortifications. In Dutch and English.

    A new Belgian site, 'In Flanders Fields'.

    • Les Chevaliers du Ciel, a site in French, from Belgium, on the German fliers, including Richthofen, Voss, Udet.

    Canada

    • The Black Watch (RHR) of Canada - the senior Canadian Highland Regiment.
    • Canada at War - The National SchoolNet collections site, part of Canada's Digital Collections, includes the: CEF Attestation Papers; Books of Remembrance; Aviation Hall of Fame; Canadian Military Medals and Decorations; Canadian Veterans Recollect; Courage Remembered; The Northwest Rebellion of 1885; the Taconis Collection and Canadian Military Uniforms. Major resource, en français et anglais.
    Also available in the French version.
    • Over the Top, an interactive trench adventure at the Canadian War Museum.
    Songs Popular during the First World War (audio)

    Czechoslovakia

    England / Great Britain

    • The Accrington Pals - site dedicated to the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment (It even has a German-language interface!)
    • Captain Noel Chavasse, Medical Officer of the 10th (Liverpool Scottish) Battalion, the King's (Liverpool) Regiment, England, the only man to win the Victoria Cross twice during the Great War. The primary reference for this life.
    See in particular Lions Led by Donkeys for biographical notes on British generals.
    • Chailey 1914-1918 - the story of a village community (in what is now East Sussex) during the First World War.
    • Hellfire Corner, a WWI site by Tom Morgan focusing on British and Imperial involvement.
    • The Psywar Society of Great Britain publishes The Falling Leaf, which has published articles dealing with the Great War, including 'The First Leaflet of the First World War', 'Propaganda Behind The Lines', and 'Air Disseminated Postcards of the First World War.

    France

    • La Deuxième Bataille de la Marne 1914-1918, France - The Second Battle of the Marne River; Pour tout savoir sur la Bataille et les détails des opérations de la Commémoration de la Deuxième Bataille de la Marne.
    • mémoire des hommes -- a French Ministry of Defense database to locate French soldiers who died in combat.
    • Vestiges militaria - French-language portal to war relics & personal collections left over from the First and the Second World Wars.

    Germany

    A German-language portal to the First World War.
    A German site reporting on the conference of the same name.
    - also available in English -
    - also available in English -
    A website of the German Naval Archive.
    The German air corps from 1911 through 1920.
    Information on German flyers, including the "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen.

     

    Greece

     

    Italy

     

    Mexico

     

    The Netherlands

     

    Newfoundland

     

    New Zealand

    • New Zealand and the Great War. Peter Hoar's contribution to mark New Zealand's participation in the war, including memorial sites, chronology and bibliography.

     

    Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

    • Royal Dublin Fusiliers. The history of the RDF, an infantry regiment of the British army that was disbanded before independence in 1922.

    Russia

     

    Scotland (see also Great Britain)

     

    South Africa

    Turkey/Ottoman Empire

    Located at the library of Texas Tech University.
    • Gallipoli. A website on the battle by Julien Snelders.

    United States

    • Harry S Truman Library, (USA) - with a wide variety of representative documents and photos concerning the President's experiences.
    • Life at Camp Funston: Reflections of Army Sergeant Charles L. Johnston, USA. Co-respondence, photographs, dealing with Camp Funston (Ft. Riley), Kansas, 1918.
    • POW/MIA Database, offered by the Federal Research Division, US Library of Congress.

    The Woodrow Wilson eLibrary - with, among other things, digital copies of his most famous speeches.

    • World War I History Commission Questionnaires of the State of Virginia, USA. The surveys of World War I veterans in Virginia, a fully-searchable database of over 14,900 records, one for each questionnaire respondent, accessible by name, city/county, and race. Each record is also linked to digitized images of each page of the questionnaires, as well as any accompanying material such as photographs and additional pages submitted by the respondents.

    Miscellaneous Sites

    • A variety of materiel sites, including the The World War I Modelling Page; along with those concentrating on Dreadnoughts, Battleships, and the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.

    Documents of World War I

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    "Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993," by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy,
    Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993

    Archive of Documents at Brigham Young University

    National World War I Museum

    First World War.com - A multimedia history of World War One

    Florida State Archives, Florida Memory Project, World War I

    Art of the First World War

    BBC News, "World War I:  Eighty Years On"

    BBC Education, Modern World History: Timeline, World War I

    ANZACS Net, Animated Stories and Poems from the First World War

    Trenches on the Web

    F.S. Northedge and M.J. Grieve, A Hundred Years of International Relations, (New York: Praeger, 1971), Chapter 5, "The Approach to the First World War," pp. 71-90

    Lost Poets of the Great War

    Patricia A. Ferguson, "Fighting on All Fronts: Leo Amery and the First World War," Essays in History

    Dan Berlin's World War I Page

    The Great European and World War

    THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN, 1906

    The Hague Convention (1899-1928)

    The Western Front, 1914-1918

    Chronology of the First World War

    The War Times Journal Series, "The Great War"

    The PBS Production, "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century"

    World War I Political Cartoons

    Market Harborough: An East Midlands Town in the First World War

    Pre-1914

    Declaration Respecting Maritime Law. Paris, 16 April 1856

    LE TRAITÉ DE LONDRES (1867)

    Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of certain Explosive Projectiles. Saint Petersburg, 29 November/11 December 1868

    The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany, October 7, 1879

    The Laws of War on Land. Oxford, 9 September 1880

    Helmuth von Moltke, the Elder, "On the Nature of War," 1880

    The Three Emperors' League, June 18, 1881

    The Triple Alliance, May 20, 1882

    The Triple Alliance, May 20, 1882 (English translation)

    Bismarck and the "Polish Question." Speech to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament, January 28, 1886.

    The Reinsurance Treaty, June 18, 1887

    Die Internationale (1888) Translated by Richard S. Levy

    Wilhelm II at the Swearing-in of New Recruits in Potsdam, November 23, 1891

    The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention, August 18, 1892

    The 'Willy-Nicky' Letters: Introduction, and Letters I-V (8 November 1894-10 July 1895)

    British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914

    Bernhard von Bülow Hammer and Anvil Speech before the Reichstag, December 11, 1899

    The First "Open Door" Note, September 1899

    First Peace Conference at The Hague: Signed -- 29 July 1899; entry into force -- 4 September 1900

    Bismarck's Fall from Power, 1890

    Wilhelm II at the Swearing-in of New Recruits in Potsdam, November 23, 1891. (Two versions.)

    Kaiser Wilhelm II and German Interests in China, 1900

    November, 1901 British Foreign Policy by A.B.C.

    The Entente Cordiale Between England and France, April 8, 1904

    The Schlieffen Plan (1905)

    The First Moroccan Crisis, March 31, 1905

    The Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905 - September 5, 1905

    K.M. Wilson, THE MAKING AND PUTATIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF A BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY OF GESTURE, DECEMBER 1905 TO AUGUST 1914: THE ANGLO-FRENCH ENTENTE REVISITED

    The Anglo-Russian Entente (1907)

    Second Peace Conference at The Hague: Signed -- 18 October 1907; entry into force -- 26 January 1910

    The Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary, September - October, 1908

    The Daily Telegraph Affair, 28 October, 1908

    The Racconigi Bargain, October, 1909 (Excerpts)

    Norman Angell's The Great Illusion, 1910

    Agadir Crisis: Lloyd George's Mansion House Speech, 21 July, 1911

    The Narodna Odbrana,1911

    Luxembourg Railways Operational Intelligence Report, 24 September 1911

    The Constitution of the Ujedinjenje ili Smrt (The Black Hand), 1911

    The Haldane Mission, 8 - 12 February, 1912

    Heinrich Class, "If I Were Kaiser" (1912)

    5 December, 1912 Expanded Version of the Triple Alliance

    5 February, 1913 The Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord

    British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement, 1912-1914; Lord Kitchener, the Emir Abdullah, Sir Louis Mallet -- the Case of Aziz Ali, 1914

    5 December, 1912, Expanded Version of the Triple Alliance

    My Mission to London, 1912-14 by Prince Lichnowsky

    Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord, 5 February, 1913 (In the original French)

    Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address, Tuesday, March 4, 1913

    The Zabern Affair (1913)

    PAN-GERMANISM by ROLAND G. USHER, Associate Professor of History Washington University, St. Louis (BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1913)

    Paul A.Papayoanou, "Interdependence, Institutions, and the Balance of Power: Britain, Germany, and World War I, International Security, Vol. 20, no. 4 Spring 1996

    1914

    Naomi Klein, "STRANDED: The diary of a young Boston teacher (Dora Lourie Klein), who becomes stuck in Switzerland as Europe erupts into war," 2007

    THE "BLACK-DRAGON" STATEMENT OF JAPANESE POLICY IN CHINA AS A RESULT OF THE EUROPEAN WAR. (WRITTEN IN 1914.)

    General Friedrich von Bernhardi, The Next War, 1914

    U-Boat War, 1914-1918

    Punch: British Propaganda from 1914-1915

    "German Policy in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918" by David Menichetti

    The Austro-Hungarian Red Book, Section I, Nos 1-19, Appendices 1 and 2, 1914

    Daily Mirror, "The Declaration of War," August 4th 1914

    Austro-Hungarian Documents on the Outbreak of War, 1 July 1914 - 27 August 1914

    The Belgian Grey Book, Diplomatic Correspondence Respecting the War (July 24-August 29, 1914)

    The Russian Orange Book, 1914

    The Serbian Blue Book

    The German Occupation of Luxembourg (as documented in the original German and French-language dispatches)

    Colonel House's Report to President Wilson, May, 1914

    General Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany and the Next War, 1914

    The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, 28 June, 1914

    Treaty of Alliance between Germany and Turkey (2 August 1914)

    German Dispatches and the Kaiser's Annotations, June-July 1914

    Autograph Letter of Franz Joseph to the Kaiser, 2 July 1914

    AN AMBASSADOR'S MEMOIRS By Maurice Paléologue, (Last French Ambassador to the Russian Court), TRANSLATED BY F. A. HOLT, O.B.E. NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, 1925, VOL. I. (July, 1914-June 2nd, 1915), VOL. II. (June 3d, 1915-August 18, 1916), VOL. III. (August 19, 1916-May 17, 1917)

    The 'Blank Check,' July 6, 1914, Germany giving Austria a green light

    The Austrian-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia, July 23, 1914

    Russian Memorandum of Advice to Serbia, July 24, 1914

    The Serbian Response to the Ultimatum, July 25, 1914

    Wilhelm II's Intransigence, July 26, 1914

    The Pledge Plan, July 28, 1914

    The Austro-Hungarian Declaration of War Against Serbia, July 28, 1914

    The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams, July 29-August 1, 1914

    Sir Edward Grey's Indecisiveness, July 31, 1914

    Prince Lichownowsky's Reply to Sir Edward Grey, July 1914

    Wilhelm II's War Speeches, July-August 1914

    The German White Book, 1914

    The German Declaration of War On Russia, August 1, 1914

    The German Request for Free Passage Through Belgium, August 2, 1914

    The Belgian Refusal of Free Passage, August 3, 1914

    The Italian Declaration of Neutrality, August 3, 1914

    Sir Edward Grey's Speech before the House of Commons, August 3, 1914

    The British Ambassador's Account of his meeting with the German Chancellor, August 4, 1914

    The Chancellor Defends the Invasion of Belgium, August 4, 1914

    4 August, 1914, Origin of the Term "A Scrap of Paper"

    King Albert's Speech to the Belgium Parliament, August 4, 1914

    President Poincare's War Message, August 4, 1914

    EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR, DR. VON BETHMANN HOLLWEG GIVEN IN THE REICHSTAG, ON AUGUST 4, 1914

    Clemenceau Calls France to Arms, August 5, 1914

    World War I, The War at Sea

    Telegram from Wilhelm II to President Wilson, August 10, 1914

    Secretary of State Bryan Opposes Loans to Beliigerents, August 10, 1914

    The Fall of Liege, August 11-15, 1914

    Japanese Ultimatum to Germany, August 15, 1914

    President Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality, August 19, 1914

    The Fall of Brussels, August 20-21, 1914

    The Burning of Louvain, August 26, 1914

    Report of Sir Admiral David Beatty on Fighting off Helgoland, August 28, 1914

    General Joffre's Report on the Fighting on the Marne, August-September 1914

    The Abandonment of Paris, September 3, 1914

    The Triple Entente Declaration on No Separate Peace, September 4, 1914

    U.S. Statement on the Status of Armed Merchant Vessels, September 19, 1914

    U-9 Submarine Attack Report, September 1914

    Trench Warfare begins on the Aisne, September 28, 1914

    The London Times on Belgian Neutrality, September 30, 1914

    The Battle of Wirballen, October, 1914

    The First Battle of Ypres, October 31-November 17, 1914

    Cruise and Destruction of the Emden, August-November, 1914

    War on the Eastern Front: The Battle of Wirballen, Reported by Karl H. von Wiegand, Berlin correspondent of the United Press, 4 - 8 October, 1914

    William Jennings Bryan to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, November 13, 1914

    Graf von Spee's Report, November 1914

    Colonel House's Memorandum of Interview with President Wilson, December 14, 1914

    Manifesto of the Ninety-Three German Intellectuals to the Civilized World, 1914

    The Hasslied, 1914

    The British Defense of the Realm Consolidation Act, 1914

    Failings of the Russian Army Medical Service, 1914

    The British Defense of the Realm Consolidation Act

    Kitchener's Address to the Troops, 1914

    The Political Development of US Neutrality Policy, 1914-1915 Discussions between President Wilson & Secretaries Bryan and Lansing President Wilson to the Acting Secretary of State

    Giolitti's Justification for Italian Neutrality, December, 1914

    EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF THE IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR MADE IN THE GERMAN REICHSTAG, ON DECEMBER 2, 1914. (From the North German Gazette of Dec. 3, 1914) Appendix I

    ENGLAND AND BELGIUM: NEW DOCUMENTS CONCERNING ENGLAND'S BREACH OF NEUTRALITY (From the North German Gazette of December 2, 1914) Appendix G

    HOW ENGLAND PLAYED WITH BELGIAN NEUTRALITY (From the North German Gazette of December 15, 1914) Appendix H

    The Bryce Report, "Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages," Appointed by His Britannic Majesty's Government and Presided Over by the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M. THE RIGHT HON. SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bt., K.C.; SIR ALFRED HOPKINSON, K.C; MR. H. A. L. FISHER, Vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield; and MR.. HAROLD COX;

    The Bryce Report on the Conduct of the German Army in Belgium

    ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE WAR: NEUTRAL RIGHTS, BELLIGERENT CLAIMS AND AMERICAN COMMERCE IN THE YEARS 1914-1915 by EDWIN J. CLAPP Professor of Economics, New York University (NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1915

    THE "BLACK-DRAGON" STATEMENT OF JAPANESE POLICY IN CHINA AS A RESULT OF THE EUROPEAN WAR. (WRITTEN IN 1914.)

    THE WAR OF STEEL AND GOLD: A STUDY OF THE ARMED PEACE BY HENRY NOEL BRAILSFORD, TENTH EDITION, REVISED, LONDON, G. BELL & SONS, LTD. First published May 1914

    1915

    FOUR WEEKS IN THE TRENCHES by Fritz Kreisler (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915)

    Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sir Edward Grey, January 22, 1915

    THE TREATMENT OF THE ARMENIANS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1915-16, Documents presented to VISCOUNT GREY OF FALLODON, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs By Viscount Bryce

    The Battle of Dogger Bank, January 24, 1915

    German Admiralty Declaration, 4 February 1915

    THE ENGLISH PRESS OF 1887 ON BELGIUM'S NEUTRALITY, THE BETRAYAL OF BELGIUM: WHAT THE ENGLISH TORIES ONCE SAID, (The Labour Leader, February 4, 1915) Appendix L

    La violation de la neutralité belge et luxembourgeoise par l'Allemagne par ANDRÉ WEISS, Membre de I'Institut. Professeur de Droit international à l'Université de Paris. LIBRAIRIIE ARMAND COLIN, 103, Boulevard Saint-Michel, PARIS, 5e., 1915

    President Wilson's First Warning to the Germans, February 10, 1915

    KITCHENER: ORGANIZER OF VICTORY BY HAROLD BEGBIE The Riverside Press Cambridge, Published February 1915

    The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, March 10, 1915

    The Battle of Gallipoli

    Gallipoli

    "Raking Up Old Arguments," The Filipino People 3 (March 1915).

    The Capture of Przemysl, March 30, 1915

    PAN-AMERICANISM: A FORECAST OF THE INEVITABLE CLASH BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE'S VICTOR BY ROLAND G. USHER, PH.D. , PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS, NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO.
    1915

    Masaryk: Independent Bohemia (April 1915)

    The Use of Poison Gas, April 22, 1915

    Daily Mirror, "Ypres," April 24th 1915

    The Treaty of London (Extracts), 26 April, 1915

    The sinking of the Lusitania by Paul W. Collins

    CHINA'S REPLY TO JAPAN'S REVISED DEMANDS, China's Reply of May 1, 1915, to the Japanese Revised Demands of April 26, 1915

    MEMORANDUM READ BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO MR. HICKI, THE JAPANESE MINISTER, AT A CONFERENCE HELD AT WAICHIAOPU, MAY 1, 1915

    DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE TWENTY-ONE DEMANDS MADE BY JAPAN ON CHINA IN 1915, (A) JAPAN'S REVISED DEMANDS ON CHINA, Presented April 26, 1915, following the original Twenty-one Demands on China, presented Jan. 18, 1915

    Japan's Ultimatum delivered by the Japanese Minister to the Chinese Government, on May 7th, 1915

    REPLY OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO THE ULTIMATUM OF THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT, DELIVERED TO THE JAPANESE MINISTER BY THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE 8TH OF MAY, 1915

    EXTRACT FROM OFFICIAL STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AFTER THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE JAPANESE ULTIMATUM, MAY 8TH, 1915

    President Wilson's Speech, "America Must be a Special Example," May 10, 1915

    Woodrow Wilson, "Americanism and the Foreign-Born," 10 May 1915

    The First Lusitania Note, May 13, 1915

    William Jennings Bryan, "American Protest over the Sinking of the Lusitania," 1915

    Cunard Archives, Lusitania, 1907-1915

    Italy's Declaration for the Allies, May 23, 1915

    President Wilson's Protest to Germany, July 21, 1915

    The Treaty of London (excerpts) (1915)

    Reports on Gallipoli, August 9, 1915

    U.S. Policy on Loans to Belligerents, 1914-15

    Wilson's Change on the War Loans Policy, August 26, 1915

    Tsar Nicholas' Declaration of War Against the Bulgarians, October 6, 1915

    The Development of US Neutrality Policy, 1914-15

    US Protests Against Maritime Warfare, 1914-15

    Bernstorff and the Arabic Crisis, October 5, 1915

    6 October, 1915, Tsar Nicholas' Declaration Against the Bulgarians

    THE NEUTRALITY OF BELGIUM: A STUDY OF THE BELGIAN CASE UNDER ITS ASPECTS IN POLITICAL HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW BY ALEXANDER FUEHR, DOCTOR OF LAW, FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, NEW YORK AND LONDON
    1915

    Address to the President and Congress on Policies in the Americas by the Anti-Imperialist League, October 22, 1915.

    The Husain-McMahon Letters (excerpt)

    Propaganda Leaflets, 1915

    "Lepanto," by G.K. Chesterton

    ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE WAR: NEUTRAL RIGHTS, BELLIGERENT CLAIMS AND AMERICAN COMMERCE IN THE YEARS 1914-1915 BY EDWIN J. CLAPP, Professor of Economics, New York University, NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1915

    1916

    31 January, 1916, The Great Zeppelin Raid

    International Diplomacy from the Congo to World War I By E. D. Morel Excerpts from Truth and the War (London: National Labour Press, 1916).

    Lord Northcliffe on Verdun, March 4, 1916

    A line of bayonets protruding from the earth still testifies to French valor at Verdun in World War I, By Ernest O. Grab

    The Sykes-Picot Agreement, May 15 and 16, 1916

    Wilson on the Sussex Case, April 19, 1916

    "Imperialism as the 'Paramount Issue'," by Maximo M. Kalaw, Chapter 6 of The Case for the Filipinos (New York: The Century Co., 1916).

    The German Zeppelin Offensive of 1916 by Jim Burbeck

    Rudyard Kipling on the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916

    Beatty's Report on the Battle of Jutland, May 31, 1916

    Daily Mirror,"The Battle of Jutland," June 3rd 1916

    Robert Cecil, Memorandum on Proposals for Diminishing the Occasion of Future Wars, (Autumn 1916) (PRO reference FO 371/3082)

    Memorandum on disarmament, 1916, by Sir Eyre Crowe, subsequently to become Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office (PRO reference number F0371/3082)

    Personal Notes on the Sherifial Family, T.E. Lawrence, November 26, 1916

    When the Prussians Came to Poland: The Experiences of an American Woman during the German Invasion By Laura de Gozdawa Turczynowicz (NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, 1916)

    1917

    German Discussions Concerning Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1917

    The Zimmerman Note, January 19, 1917

    Woodrow Wilson's Speech, "Peace Without Victory," January 22, 1917

    History of Intelligence (B), British Expeditionary Force, France, From January 1917 To April 1919

    US, Department of State, President Wilson Learns of the Zimmermann Telegram, 26 February 1917

    Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, March 5, 1917

    Abdication of Nicholas II, March 15, 1917

    Abdication Manifesto of Nicholas II

    Telegram from Morris, Ambassador to Sweden, to Byrne, U.S. Secretary of State, March 19, 1917

    Telegram from the American Consulate General in Petrograd to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917

    Telegram from the American Consulate in Moscow to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917

    Manifesto Restoring the Constitution of Finland

    The Finnish Civil War

    Lansing's Memorandum of the Cabinet Meeting, March 20, 1917

    Woodrow Wilson's "War Message," 1917

    Ido Oren, "The Subjectivity of the 'Democratic' Peace: Changing U.S. Perceptions of Imperial Germany," International Security, Vol. 20, no. 2 (Fall 1995)

    Speeches by Senators Norris and LaFollette opposing US entry into World War I, 1917

    German and Austro-Hungarian Internment during World War One in the United States

    The Reichstag Peace Resolution, July 19, 1917

    The Battle of 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) by Geoffrey Miller

    Third Ypres: A Decisive Victory? by Gervase Phillips

    Pope Benedict XV's Peace Proposal, August 1, 1917

    The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence from The Arab Bulletin, 20 August 1917

    The Joint Socialist Statement on the Refusal of Passports to Stockhom, September 9, 1917

    The Balfour Declaration, November 2, 1917

    The Imperial Japanese Mission to the United States, 1917, Appendix B, THE LANSING-ISHII EXCHANGE OF NOTES, November 1917

    OFFICIAL STATEMENTS IN RELATION TO THE LANSING-ISHII AGREEMENT BETWEEN AMERICA AND JAPAN CONCERNING CHINA, IN 1917

    THE TRUCE OF FOCSANI, BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND THE CENTRAL POWERS. SIGNED AT FOCSANI, 9 DECEMBER, 1917

    Militarism by Karl Liebknecht. New York, B.W. Huebsch, MCMXVII; Copyright, 1917, by B.W. Huebsch First printing, October, 1917; Second printing, October, 1917

    Messages Relating to the Bolshevik Revolution, 7-22 November 1917

    BBC Online, "Russia in Revolution"

    Soviet Recognition of the Independence of Finland, 18 December 1917

    Meeting at the Smolny Institute, Dec. 31, 1917 on Finnish Independence, Lenin and Svinhulvud

    A DOCTOR'S DIARY IN DAMARALAND BY DR. H. F. B. WALKER, LATE CAPTAIN R.A.M.C, ILLUSTRATED, LONDON, EDWARD ARNOLD, 1917

    SHELL SHOCK AND ITS LESSONS, By Grafton Elliot Smith, MA. MD. FRCP. FRS., Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Anatomy, and Tom Hatherly Pear BSc., Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, Manchester University Medical School, Published Manchester University Press, England, First edition 1917

    The Cross at the Front: Fragments from the Trenches BY THOMAS TIPLADY, Chaplain to the. Forces, Fleming H.. Revell Company, NEW YORK, 1917

    MY FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY BY JAMES W. GERARD, LATE AMBASSADOR TO THE GERMAN IMPERIAL COURT, NEW YORK:
    GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, 1917

    1918

    5 January, 1918, Prime Minister Lloyd George on the British War Aims

    President Wilson's Fourteen Points, January 8, 1918

    11 February, 1918: President Wilson's Address to Congress, Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances

    The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 3, 1918

    PRELIMINARY TREATY OF PEACE. SIGNED AT THE CASTLE OF BUFTEA, NEAR BUCHAREST, 7 P.M., 5 MARCH, 1918

    "THE PEACE OF BUCHAREST"--THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND THE CENTRAL POWERS. SIGNED AT BUCHAREST, 7 MAY, 1918.

    TRADE TREATY, INCLUDING THE PETROLEUM AGREEMENT, THE ECONOMIC AGREEMENT, AND THE NAVIGATION AGREEMENT ADDITIONAL TO THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND THE CENTRAL POWERS. SIGNED AT BUCHAREST, 7 MAY, 1918.

    ECONOMIC TREATY, PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE XXIX OF THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND THE CENTRAL POWERS. SIGNED AT BUCHAREST, 7 MAY, 1918.

    ECONOMIC TREATY, PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE XXIX OF THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND THE CENTRAL POWERS. SIGNED AT BUCHAREST, 7 MAY, 1918.

    POLITICAL - LEGAL TREATY, PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE XXIX OF THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND THE CENTRAL POWERS. SIGNED AT BUCHAREST, 7 MAY, 1918.

    The US Sedition Act, May 16, 1918

    The Allied Appeal for American Assistance, May-June, 1918

    The Americans Take Belleau Wood, June 9-10, 1918

    Eugene V. Debs, The Canton, Ohio Anti-War Speech, 16 June 1918

    Memorandum by Colonel House Interpreting the Fourteen Points, 1918

    Secretary of State Robert Lansing on the Invasion of the Soviet Union

    US Participation in the Archangel Expedition, July 17, 1918

    Diary Notes of Oberst von Thaer, 1 October 1918

    The Allies Accept the Fourteen Points, November 5, 1918

    Anglo-French Joint Statement of Aims in Syria and Mesopotamia, November 8, 1918

    Ultimatum by the Social Democrats, November, 1918

    The Armistice Demands, November 10, 1918

    Conditions of an Armistice With Germany, Signed on the 11th day of November 1918, at 5 o'clock A.M. (French time).

    9-11, November, 1918, The New York Times Reports the End of the War

    Abdication Proclamation of Wilhelm II, November 28, 1918

    Report on "War Guilt," 1918

    Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, Ambassador Morgenthau's Story GARDEN CITY NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 1918

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, DIVISION OF INTERCOURSE AND EDUCATION, Publication No. 15, THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE MISSION, 1917, A Record of the Reception Throughout the United States of the Special Mission Headed by Viscount Ishii TOGETHER WITH THE EXCHANGE OF NOTES EMBODYING The Root-Takahira Understanding of 1908 AND The Lansing-Ishii Agreement of 1917, Foreword by Elihu Root, WASHINGTON, D. C., 1918

    G. Ward Price , OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENT WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN THE BALKANS, The Story of the Salonica Army NEW YORK: EDWARD J. CLODE, 1918

    FACE TO FACE WITH KAISERISM BY JAMES W. GERARD, LATE AMBASSADOR TO THE GERMAN IMPERIAL COURT, NEW YORK
    GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, COPYRIGHT, 1918

    AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE WORLD WAR BY IDA CLYDE CLARKE. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK LONDON
    1918

    PUBLIC RELATIONS OF THE COMMISSION FOR RELIEF IN BELGIUM: DOCUMENTS By GEORGE I. GAY, Commission for Relief in Belgium with the collaboration of H. H. FISHER, Stanford University IN TWO VOLUMES (STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA, 1929)

    1919

    P.H. Kerr, Memorandum on the League of Nations, 29 January 1919

    An extract from proceedings of the Commission on the League of Nations, 13 February 1919 (PRO)

    21 March 1919, Haig's Last Despatch, British Armies in France

    Lloyd George, extract from Fontainebleau memorandum, 25 March, 1919

    ARMENIA AND THE WAR: AN ARMENIAN'S POINT OF VIEW WITH AN APPEAL TO BRITAIN AND THE COMING PEACE CONFERENCE BY A. P. HACOBIAN, WITH A PREFACE BY THE RT. HON. VISCOUNT BRYCE, O. M., NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

    The Treaty of Versailles, June 28 1919

    BBC Online, "The Treaty of Versailles"

    James T. Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference (New York: MacMillan Company, 1937)

    15 September 1919, "Intelligensia" Lenin to Gorky

    Covenant of the League of Nations

    Chronology of the Fight over the League of Nations

    Internet Public Library, Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson's "League of Nations" Speech , 1919

    Reservations drawn up by Republican Senators to the Treaty of Peace with Germany, November 1919.

    THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS Memordandum by Cecil Hurst, Legal Adviser to the British Foreign Office, on the American Reservations to the Peace Treaty, 18 November 1919. (DBFP Series 1, vol V, no. 399.)

    THE WAR WITH GERMANY:A STATISTICAL SUMMARY, LEONARD P. AYRES, Colonel, General Staff, CHIEF OF THE STATISTICS BRANCH OF THE GENERAL STAFF, Second Edition with data revised to August 1, 1919, WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1919

    GERMANY'S HIGH SEA FLEET IN THE WORLD WAR, by Admiral Scheer

    China and the World War by W. Reginald Wheeler of the Faculty of Hangchow College, Hangchow, China, ILLUSTRATED, New York, THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1919