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African Soldiers
Chapter 2 - Total War
Chapter 3 - Brittain / Kamara:
— Kande Kamara
American Soldiers
Prologue (Photo)
Chapter 3 - Collapse (Audio and Video)
Chapter 4 - Overview (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Kennedy:
— American Troops in the Trenches
Armenian Genocide
Chapter 2 - Etem/Wegner:
— Armin Wegner
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The Armenian Genocide
Armistice
Prologue
Chapter 3 - Collapse
Chapter 4 - Overview
Chapter 4 - Hatred & Hunger
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The Great War Today
Maps & Battles - The Western Front in 1918
Timeline - 1918:
— Timeline, 1918
Art
Chapter 1 - Wilhelm II / Meidner:
— Ludwig Meidner
Historian Commentary - O'Brian-Twohig:
— An Imminent Art ExplosionAn Imminent Art Explosion
— The British Artist
— The Artist As A Socialist
— German Otto Dix's Images of War
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Kathe Kolwitz - Symbol of Letting Go
Australia
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— Gallipoli - An Australian Perspective
Maps & Battles - Gallipoli
Austria-Hungary
Prologue
Chapter 1 - Explosion
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The War as A Detective Story
Maps & Battles - Europe in 1914
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Baghdad
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— Baghdad 2003, Making the World Safe for Democracy, Jay Winter
Battalion of Death
Chapter 4 - Yashka / Wilson:
— Yashka
Belgium
Chapter 1 - Overview
Chapter 1 - Stalemate
Chapter 2 - Overview
Chapter 2 - Slaughter
Chapter 2 - Nagel/Stockwell:
— Fritz Nagel
Historian Commentary - Mommsen:
— German Army's Advance into Belgium
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The German Reaction to Belgium Resistance
Maps & Battles - The Outbreak of War
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914
Black American Soldiers
Chapter 3 - Overview (Photo)
Timeline - 1919:
— Timeline, 1919 (Photo)
Bolsheviks
Chapter 4 - Overview
Historian Commentary - Ferguson:
— Hitler's Turning Point
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— Storming the Winter Palace
— The Russian Revolution
— Alexander Kerensky - Russia's Hope
Timeline - 1917:
— Timeline, 1917
Timeline - 1919:
— Timeline, 1919
Timeline - Post-1919
Mary Borden
Chapter 3 - Desagneaux / Borden:
— Somme
Bosnia
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— Bosnia and Rwanda Genocide, Jay Winter
Bread Riot
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— The Bread Riot - Starting a Revolution
British Decline
Historian Commentary - Ferguson:
— Beginning of the British Decline
British Expeditionary Force
Historian Commentary - Simkins:
— The British Expeditionary Force
British Soldiers
Historian Commentary - Fussell:
— The Christmas Truce - The Last Twitch
Historian Commentary - Keegan:
— The Battle of the Somme: Millions of Shells Fired
Vera Brittain
Chapter 3 - Brittain / Kamara:
— Oxford University Student
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Vera Brittain - A Lost Generation
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Christmas Truce
Chapter 2 - Nagel/Stockwell:
— C.I. Stockwell
Historian Commentary - Fussell:
— The Christmas Truce - The Last Twitch
Historian Commentary - Simkins:
— The Christmas Truce - A Mutual CuriosityThe Christmas Truce - A Mutual Curiosity
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— The Christmas Truce - Live & Let Live
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914 (Photo)
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Henri Desagneux
Chapter 3 - Desagneaux / Borden:
— Verdun
Otto Dix
Historian Commentary - O'Brian-Twohig:
— German Otto Dix's Images of War
— German Otto Dix's Images of War
W.E.B. DuBois
Chapter 3 - Overview
Chapter 4 - Yashka / Wilson
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Hasan Etem
Chapter 2 - Total War
Chapter 2 - Etem/Wegner:
— Gallipoli
European Union
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— European Union, Niall Ferguson
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France
Historian Commentary - Audoin-Rouzeau:
— The Birth of Modernity
— The French Perception of War
Franz Ferdinand
Prologue
Chapter 1 - Explosion
Chapter 4 - Hatred & Hunger
Maps & Battles - Europe in 1914
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914
Franz Joseph
Chapter 1 - Overview (Photo)
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914
French Soldiers
Chapter 2 - Total War (Video)
Chapter 2 - Slaughter (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Audoin-Rouzeau:
— Verdun - The "Battle of France"
— The French Perception of War
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— French Bravery and German Fire Power
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Gallipoli
Chapter 2 - Etem/Wegner:
— Hasan Etem
Historian Commentary - Tuncoku:
— Gallipoli - A Turkish Perspective
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— Gallipoli - An Australian Perspective
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Gallipoli - An Intelligence Screw-up
Maps & Battles - Gallipoli
Timeline - 1915:
— Timeline, 1915 (Photo)
Gas Attack
Chapter 4 - Sassoon / Owen:
— Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
German Soldiers
Chapter 1 - Explosion (Video)
Chapter 1 - Stalemate (Photo)
Chapter 2 - Slaughter (Video)
Chapter 3 - Overview (Photo)
Germany
Chapter 1 - Wilhelm II / Meidner:
— Kaiser Wilhelm II
Historian Commentary - Audoin-Rouzeau:
— The Versailles Treaty - Going To Far
Historian Commentary - Ferguson:
— Hitler's Turning Point
Historian Commentary - Huppauf:
— Germany Before the War
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— 1900 - A Transforming World
Historian Commentary - Wohl:
— A Place in the Sun - A German Need
Philip Gibbs
Chapter 1 - Jaures / Gibbs (Audio)
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Douglas Haig
Historian Commentary - Keegan:
— British General Douglas Haig
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— Generals Douglas Haig & Erich von Falkenhayn
Maps & Battles - The Battle of the Somme
Maps & Battles - The Battle of Ypres
Timeline - 1915:
— Timeline, 1915
Hindenburg Line
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— Breaking the Hindenburg Line
Maps & Battles - The Western Front in 1918
Timeline - 1918:
— Timeline, 1918
Adolf Hitler
Chapter 2 - Total War
Chapter 3 - Collapse (Web link)
Chapter 4 - War Without End
Historian Commentary - Ferguson:
— Hitler's Turning Point
Historian Commentary - Howard:
— Unfinished Business at War's End
Historian Commentary - Mommsen:
— Versailles Treaty - From the German POV
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Hitler on the Versailles Treaty
Historian Commentary - Wohl:
— Adolf Hitler - Happiest Period of His Life
Timeline - Post-1919
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Immigration
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— Immigration, Niall Ferguson
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Jean Jaures
Chapter 1 - Jaures / Gibbs (Audio)
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Chapter 1 - Explosion
Chapter 1 - Wilhelm II / Meidner
Chapter 3 - Overview
Chapter 3 - Collapse
Historian Commentary - Huppauf:
— The Kaiser as a Construction
Historian Commentary - Massie:
— Kaiser Wilhelm II - A Crippled Bombast
Historian Commentary - Stone:
— Russia - Getting Too Strong for Germany
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Kaiser Wilhelm - A Mystery
Maps & Battles - Europe in 1914
Timeline - 1918:
— Timeline, 1918
Timeline - Pre-1914:
— Timeline, Pre-1914 (Photo)
Kande Kamara
Chapter 3 - Brittain / Kamara:
— African Soldier
Mustafa Kemal
Chapter 2 - Etem/Wegner:
— Gallipoli
Historian Commentary - Tuncoku:
— Gallipoli - A Turkish Perspective
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Mustafa Kemal - Turkish Military Legend
Alexander Kerensky
Chapter 3 - Mutiny
Chapter 4 - Yashka / Wilson:
— Yashka
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— Alexander Kerensky - Russia's Hope
Killing Fields
Chapter 2 - Overview
Lord Kitchner
Historian Commentary - Simkins:
— July 1, 1916 - The Somme
— Great Britain's Volunteer Army
— "Pals" Battalions
Kathe Kollwitz
Historian Commentary - O'Brian-Twohig:
— Kathe Kollwitz - Grieving Mother, Artist
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Kathe Kolwitz - Symbol of Letting Go
Timeline - Post-1919 (Photo)
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League of Nations
Chapter 4 - Hatred & Hunger
Chapter 4 - War Without End
Chapter 4 - Yashka / Wilson
Timeline - 1919:
— Timeline, 1919
Timeline - Post-1919 (Web link)
V.I. Lenin
Chapter 3 - Overview (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Stone:
— The Revolutionaries of Russia
Timeline - 1917:
— Timeline, 1917 (Photo)
Timeline - Post-1919
Erich Ludendorff
Chapter 3 - Collapse
Historian Commentary - Huppauf:
— "The Blind War" - A War With No Direction
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Hindenburg & Ludendorff
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914 (Photo)
Lusitania
Historian Commentary - Kennedy:
— Woodrow Wilson - A Calculated Risk
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The Lusitania
Timeline - 1915:
— Timeline, 1915 (Photo)
Rosa Luxemburg
Timeline - 1919:
— Timeline, 1919 (Photo)
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March Offensive
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The March Offensive - Germany Holds its Breath
Maps & Battles - The Western Front in 1918
Marne
Chapter 1 - Stalemate (Web link)
Historian Commentary - Audoin-Rouzeau:
— The French Perception of War
Maps & Battles - The Outbreak of War
Timeline - 1918:
— Timeline, 1918
Mass Death
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— The Language of Mass Death, Jay Winter
Ludwig Meidner
Chapter 1 - Wilhelm II / Meidner
Historian Commentary - O'Brian-Twohig:
— Ludwig Meidner - Apocalyptic German Painter
Mutilated Soldiers
Chapter 4 - Overview (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Huppauf:
— The Effects of War - Mutilated Soldiers
Mutiny
Chapter 3 - Mutiny
Historian Commentary - Downs:
— Mutiny on the Battlefield and Unrest at Home
Historian Commentary - Ferguson:
— The Kaiser, Hindenburg and Ludendorff
Timeline - 1917:
— Timeline, 1917
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Fritz Nagel
Chapter 2 - Nagel/Stockwell
New Weapons
Historian Commentary - Simkins:
— The Battlefield Learning Curve
— New Weapons of War
Historian Commentary - Wohl:
— Modern Warfare
Nivelle Offensive
Historian Commentary - Keegan:
— The Nivelle Offensive - The French answer to Verdun
No-man's Land
Chapter 1 - Trench Warfare
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Wilfred Owen
Chapter 3 - Mutiny:
— Anthem for Doomed Youth
Chapter 4 - Sassoon / Owen
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Pals
Historian Commentary - Keegan:
— Pals - Join Up With a Friend!
Historian Commentary - Simkins:
— July 1, 1916 - The Somme
— "Pals" Battalions
— Great Britain's Volunteer Army
Paris
Chapter 1 - Overview
Chapter 1 - Stalemate
Chapter 4 - Hatred & Hunger
Passchendaele
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— The Battle of Passchendaele
Poetry
Chapter 1 - Stalemate:
— "I've a Little Wet Home in a Trench"
Chapter 3 - Mutiny:
— Anthem for Doomed Youth
Chapter 4 - Sassoon / Owen
Poison Gas
Chapter 1 - Stalemate (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Poison Gas
— Poison Gas
Poster Art
Chapter 2 - Nagel/Stockwell:
— Fritz Nagel (Photo)
Maps & Battles - The Outbreak of War (Photo)
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Rasputin
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— Rasputin - The Cause of Russia's Problems
Historian Commentary - Massie:
— Rasputin - Imperial Faith Healer
Historian Commentary - Stone:
— Rasputin - A Good Russian
Timeline - 1916:
— Timeline, 1916
Russia
Chapter 3 - Mutiny
Chapter 3 - Collapse
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— The Tsar's General Staff
— Alexander Kerensky - Russia's Hope
— Rasputin - The Cause of Russia's Problems
Historian Commentary - Massie:
— Shaping of Russian in the 20th Century
Historian Commentary - Stone:
— Russia - Getting Too Strong for Germany
Maps & Battles - Europe in 1914
Russian Revolution
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— The Russian Revolution
Historian Commentary - Stone:
— The Revolutionaries of Russia
Russian Soldiers
Chapter 3 - Overview (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— The Tsar's General Staff
Rwanda
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— Bosnia and Rwanda Genocide, Jay Winter
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Siegfried Sassoon
Chapter 4 - Sassoon / Owen
Schlieffen Plan
Chapter 1 - Overview
Maps & Battles - The Outbreak of War
Serbia
Chapter 1 - Explosion
Maps & Battles - Europe in 1914
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— Serbia Explodes Again 80 Years Later, Jay Winter
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914
Shell-shock
Chapter 3 - Mutiny (Photo)
Socialism
Chapter 4 - Overview
Historian Commentary - O'Brian-Twohig:
— The Artist As A Socialist
Historian Commentary - Wohl:
— Socialism and the War
Somme
Chapter 2 - Slaughter (Web link)
Chapter 3 - Desagneaux / Borden:
— Mary Borden
Historian Commentary - Hiley:
— The Battle of the Somme, the Documentary
Historian Commentary - Keegan:
— Too Few Doctors at The Front
— The Battle of the Somme: Millions of Shells Fired
Historian Commentary - Simkins:
— July 1, 1916 - The Somme
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Results of the Battle of the Somme
Maps & Battles - The Battle of the Somme
Timeline - 1916:
— Timeline, 1916
Timeline - 1918:
— Timeline, 1918
C.I. Stockwell
Chapter 2 - Nagel/Stockwell
Submarine Warfare
Chapter 3 - Mutiny (Video)
Chapter 3 - Collapse
Historian Commentary - Kennedy:
— Woodrow Wilson - A Calculated Risk
Timeline - 1915:
— Timeline, 1915 (Photo)
Timeline - 1917:
— Timeline, 1917 (Photo)
Suffragettes
Chapter 1 - Explosion
Historian Commentary - Atkinson:
— The British Suffragettes
— Women and the Vote in Britain
Timeline - Post-1919 (Web link)
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Tannenberg
Chapter 1 - Overview (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— The Battle of Tannenberg
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914
Terrorism
The Shaping of the 21st Century:
— World Terorism, Jay Winter
Trench Warfare
Chapter 1 - Trench Warfare
Chapter 2 - Nagel/Stockwell
Historian Commentary - Audoin-Rouzeau:
— Diversions at the Front
Historian Commentary - Fussell:
— The Trenches - What They Were Really Like
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— The Trench System
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914
Leon Trotsky
Chapter 3 - Mutiny (Photo)
Timeline - Post-1919
Tsar Nicholas II
Chapter 1 - Overview (Photo)
Chapter 1 - Explosion
Chapter 1 - Stalemate
Chapter 3 - Collapse
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— The Tsar's General Staff
— Rasputin - The Cause of Russia's Problems
Historian Commentary - Massie:
— The Redemption of Nicholas and Alexandra
— Rasputin - Imperial Faith HealerRasputin - Imperial Faith Healer
— Alexandra - A Passionate Tsarina
Historian Commentary - Stone:
— Nicholas and Alexandra - Bad PR
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Tsar Nicholas of Russia
Timeline - 1915:
— Timeline, 1915
Timeline - 1917:
— Timeline, 1917
Timeline - 1918:
— Timeline, 1918 (Photo)
Timeline - Pre-1914:
— Timeline, Pre-1914 (Photo)
Tsarina Alexandra
Historian Commentary - Figes:
— Rasputin - The Cause of Russia's Problems
Historian Commentary - Massie:
— Rasputin - Imperial Faith Healer
— Alexandra - A Passionate Tsarina
— The Redemption of Nicholas and Alexandra
Historian Commentary - Stone:
— Nicholas and Alexandra - Bad PR
Turkish Soldiers
Chapter 2 - Etem/Wegner
Historian Commentary - Tuncoku:
— Gallipoli - A Turkish Perspective
Maps & Battles - Gallipoli (Photo)
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United States
Historian Commentary - Kennedy:
— Woodrow Wilson - A Calculated Risk
— Patriotic Murder - The Mob-Killing of a German-American
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Verdun
Chapter 2 - Slaughter (Web link)
Chapter 3 - Desagneaux / Borden:
— Henri Desagneux
Chapter 4 - Sassoon / Owen:
— Siegfried Sassoon
Historian Commentary - Audoin-Rouzeau:
— Verdun - The "Battle of France"
Historian Commentary - Keegan:
— The Nivelle Offensive - The French answer to Verdun
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Battle of Verdun - The Crucible
Maps & Battles - The Battle of Verdun
Timeline - 1916:
— Timeline, 1916
Versailles Treaty
Chapter 4 - Hatred & Hunger
Chapter 4 - Yashka / Wilson
Historian Commentary - Audoin-Rouzeau:
— The Versailles Treaty - Going To Far
Historian Commentary - Mommsen:
— Versailles Treaty - From the German POV
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The Versailles Treaty - A Grand Bazaar
Timeline - 1919:
— Timeline, 1919 (Photo)
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Otto von Bismarck
Maps & Battles - Europe in 1914
Timeline - Pre-1914:
— Timeline, Pre-1914
Erich von Falkenhayn
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— Generals Douglas Haig & Erich von Falkenhayn
Maps & Battles - The Battle of Verdun
Paul von Hindenburg
Chapter 1 - Stalemate (Video)
Chapter 3 - Collapse
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— Hindenburg & Ludendorff
Timeline - 1914:
— Timeline, 1914 (Photo)
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Armin Wegner
Chapter 2 - Etem/Wegner:
— Armenian genocide
Western Front
Chapter 1 - Trench Warfare
Chapter 2 - Overview
Chapter 4 - Sassoon / Owen
Historian Commentary - Ferguson:
— Hitler's Turning Point
Maps & Battles - The Western Front in 1918
Woodrow Wilson
Prologue
Chapter 4 - Hatred & Hunger (Video)
Chapter 4 - War Without End
Chapter 4 - Yashka / Wilson
Historian Commentary - Howard:
— A New World Order
Historian Commentary - Kennedy:
— Woodrow Wilson - A Calculated Risk
— American Troops in the Trenches
Historian Commentary - Wohl:
— Woodrow Wilson - The Hope of a Different World
Timeline - 1916:
— Timeline, 1916
Timeline - 1918:
— Timeline, 1918
Timeline - 1919:
— Timeline, 1919 (Web link)
Women
Chapter 2 - Overview
Chapter 2 - Total War (Photo)
Historian Commentary - Atkinson:
— The British Suffragettes
— Women and the Vote in Britain
Historian Commentary - Braybon:
— Women's Contribution to the War Effort
Historian Commentary - Downs:
— Women and War Work
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Yashka
Chapter 4 - Yashka / Wilson:
— Battalion of Death
Ypres
Prologue (Photo)
Chapter 2 - Slaughter (Web link)
Chapter 4 - Sassoon / Owen:
— Mud and Rain, Siegfried Sassoon
Historian Commentary - Wilson:
— The Battle of Passchendaele
Maps & Battles - The Battle of Ypres
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Zimmermann Telegram
Chapter 3 - Collapse (Web link)
Historian Commentary - Winter:
— The Zimmermann Telegram
Timeline - 1917:
— Timeline, 1917 (Photo)
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