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ANNIVERSARY OF WORLD WAR 1
This summer marked the 100th anniversary of World War 1. Check out the titles available to you and your students
to learn about the Great War from who were the countries engaged in war to the financial impact suffered to the
loss of lives and eventually how it led to future wars.
Here are just a few of the titles focused on World War I with even more that can be found at
www.gale.cengage.com
Battles That Changed History: Encyclopedia World Conflict, 1st Edition
Pub Date 2011
ISBN 9781598844306
Gale Encyclopedia of World History: War, 1st Edition
Pub Date 2007
ISBN 9781414431512
World War I Reference Library
Pub Date 2003
ISBN 9780787691813
World War I, 1st Edition
Pub Date April 2014
ISBN 9781615356072
World War I: Primary Sources, 1st Edition
Pub Date 2002
ISBN 9780787654788
Early in 1918, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson gave a speech in which he outlined his
Fourteen Points, a plan that sought a lasting peace that would be fair to all sides and would respect the historic
balance of power among the major European countries.
When the Germans agreed to an armistice to end the fighting, they sought a treaty based on Wilson's terms.
While moderates urged the Allies not to punish Germany too severely, politicians in Great Britain and France felt
compelled to exact revenge. In the end, the terms of The Treaty of Versailles humiliated the Germans and helped
create the conditions that led to the rise of the Nazi Party.
Upon reading the treaty, French marshal Ferdinand Foch cried out "This isn't peace! This is a truce for twenty
years!" Foch was right. Twenty years and sixty-seven days after the signing of the treaty, Germany launched the
attack on Poland that triggered the onset of World War II.
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What was the cost of WW1?
Estimates were between $208-$337 billion. The figures were
accounted for from productive lives lost, ships that were sunk,
buildings and farms that were destroyed just to name a few.
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