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World War I 
Museum Project

Project Guidelines
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General WWI Primary Sources:
Great War Primary Document Archive
National Archives
DocsTeach
Smithsonian Source
General Information (non-primary source):
Brittanica (username: tech, pw: football)
World At War database from ABC-CLIO (username: blacksburgms, pw: student)

Specific topics and websites:
Choctaw Code Talkers
World War I:  The Original Code Talkers
World War I’s Native American Code Talkers

Choctaw Indian Code Talkers of World War I
Choctaw Soldiers:  World War I’s Original Code Talkers

Airplanes
Aircraft and World War I
The War in the Air:  Fighter Planes in WWI
Aviation and Aircraft of WWI
Impact of WWI on Aircraft & Aerial Warfare


Aces in the Sky
NOVA Who Killed the Red Baron?
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen 
First World War.com - The War in the Air
First World War.com - Who's Who - von Richthofen

Christmas Truce
Christmas Truce of 1914 - History.com
WWI Christmas Truce - Sappington-Concord Historical Society
The Christmas Truce - Holiday Stories
First World War.com - The Christmas Truce

Weapon: Poison Gas
BBC News - How deadly was the poison gas of WWI?
Mustard Gas in World War I - HowStuffWorks
First World War.com - Weapons of War: Poison Gas
Poison Gas and World War One
Chemical Weapons

Harlem Hellfighters
MAAP: Harlem Hellfighters
The Harlem Hellfighters: Fighting Racism in the Trenches of WWI
6 American Heroes of WWI (scroll to the third soldier)

Animals in WWI
Animals in World War I
15 Animals That Went to War - Imperial War Museums
World War I in Photos: Animals at War - The Atlantic
How did animals serve in WWI? - Nat'l Museum of Amer History
BBC Schools - Transporters

Influenza of 1918 (Spanish Flu)
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918-1919
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
1918 Flu Pandemic That Killed 50 Million Originated in China

The Draft/Selective Service Act
World War I Draft Registration Cards
World War I Draft Cards: George Gershwin
World War I Draft Cards: Louis Armstrong
World War I Draft Cards: Al Capone
World War I Draft Cards: Upton Sinclair
World War I Draft Cards: Babe Ruth
Pieces of History - Private Babe Ruth
World War I Poets
World War One Poets
The Poetry of World War I
War Poems and Poets of Today and the First World War
War Poets - Alpha History

Conserving and Rationing
Food Rationing in Wartime America - Hungry History
Children in War - Conserving Food in WWI
National Archives - Sow The Seeds of Victory - Food Admn Posters
Examples of Propaganda from WW1 - Sugar Ration
Examples of Propaganda from WW1 - Helping Hoover

Zeppelins
Trenches on the Web - Armory: Zeppelins
WWI Zeppelins: Not Too Deadly, But Scary as Hell - Wired
London's World War I Zeppelin Terror - History in the Headlines
BBC Schools - Zeppelins
World War One - Zeppelin Raids - HistoryOnTheNet

Tanks
First World War.com - Weapons of War: Tanks
Tanks and World War One - History Learning Site
WW1 Tanks - Military Factory

Nurses
Women in the US Military - US Military Nurses in World War I
World War I and the American Red Cross
Army Heritage Center Foundation - Army Nurses of World War One

Anti-war Movement During World War I
Opposition to World War I - Alpha History
WWI Online - Women Peace Activists During World War I
WWI Online - Opposition to the War in the United States
Draft History - Johnny Got His Gun (scroll down for WWI info)

Lafayette Escadrille
First World War.com - Lafayette Escadrille
Lafayette Escadrille: Americans in the French Air Service
Lafayette Escadrille - American Aviators of WWI
Lafayette Escadrille - Library of Congress

Edith Cavell
Edith Cavell - RevDC.net
Edith Cavell Biography - Biography Online
Edith Cavell - History Heroes?

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