Classroom Materials

How was the Middle East connected to the origins of WWI? What did war in the Middle East look like? How was the peace process different for the Middle East than it was for European nations? This...

This upper high school lesson looks at the Armenian massacres as a launching point for 20th century genocides. The primary focus of the project is to delve into the role the media plays in chronicling...

This episode of MacArthur Memorial's World War I Podcast series explores Dazzle paintings of ships. This jarring, brightly colored paint scheme helped camouflage ships and made it hard for U-Boats to...

This article by Tait Keller posted to "1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War" examines the ecological impact of WWI, explaining in detail how large-scale environmental...

Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare, where U-boat submarines were used to sink both military and merchant ships without warning, was very controversial and provocative. Smithsonian...

The breadth of European imperialism - particularly of the British and French - stretched deep into Africa and Asia, introducing Western colonizers to a myriad of new textiles, patterns, and styles of...

President Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information (CPI) to mold Americans into one white-hot mass of war patriotism. Congress also passed the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition...

Access thousands of primary sources from World War I using DocsTeach — including letters, photographs, posters, video, and many other documents — along with teaching activities and interactive content...

What challenges did German-Americans face after the United States entered World War I? Students will analyze primary source documents, including propaganda posters, letters, and legislation, to...

The United States' decision to declare war on Germany in 1917 was not made lightly. While many citizens supported the declaration of war, there were many that stood opposed. These primary sources...

In his Fourteen Points proposal, President Woodrow Wilson advocated for self-determination and the interests of the populations of colonial territories, but who exactly did Wilson intend to receive...

Faith Hunter Dodge was a freelance writer who attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as an official journalist with the United States Army. While there, she represented the New York-based...

This short article from HISTORY® details the events of Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. A group of Irish nationalists proclaimed the establishment of the Irish Republic and, along with some 1,600...

War bonds are a financial concept that have been around since the Civil War. The bonds, whose campaigns were often patriotic in nature, were readily used to decrease financial burdens in conflicts...

At least four million non-white troops served with the Allies and Central Powers in combat and non-combat roles during World War I. In the article "Experiences of Colonial Troops" from the British...