WWI @ AQ

Louise de Bettignies

By Emma Waris

Welcome to my podcast ! This short episode focuses on the life of Louise de Bettignies, a French Resistant during World War One. 

Variety of Weapons in the War

By Sarah Walker

There were a wide variety of weapons used in WWI, some new and some old.

Lozenge Camouflage

By Bethany Kilcrease

I'm super excited to get my new German lozenge-pattern camouflage face mask and just start talking about camouflage on the fly.  Sorry, no script!  

This is a Fokker D.VII with lozenge camouflage.  See "Lozenge camouflage," Wikipedia, accessed September, 21, 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lozenge_camouflage#:~:text=Lozenge%20camouflage%20was%20a%20military,of%20the%20Imperial%20German%20Luftstreitkr%C3%A4fte.

Tanks during WWI

By Parker Erickson

Short summary of the use of tanks in WWI, the first war in which tanks were used.

Sources:

"History - World Wars: Weapons of War: Mark 1 Tank - Non Interactive Version." BBC. February 17, 2011. Accessed September 18, 2020. https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/nonflash_tank.shtml.

 

Kennedy, Michael David. "Tanks and Tank Warfare." New Articles RSS. Accessed September 18, 2020. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/tanks_and_tank_warfare.

 

Photograph 165-BO-0834; Tank Crossing Trench; 1914 -1918; British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918; Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, Record Group 165; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

 

"The Vital Role Of Tanks In The Second World War." Imperial War Museums. Accessed September 18, 2020. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-vital-role-of-tanks-in-the-second-world-war.

 

"Timeline: Key Battles on the Western Front." The Guardian. November 09, 2008. Accessed September 17, 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/09/western-front-battles-timeline.

 

"Voices of the First World War: Tanks On The Somme." Imperial War Museums. Accessed September 18, 2020. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-tanks-on-the-somme.

 

"Weapons on Land - Tanks and Armoured Vehicles." Canada and the First World War. Accessed September 17, 2020. https://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/history/battles-and-fighting/weapons-on-land/chars-et-vehicules-blindes/.

 

Woolf, Christopher. "The Day Tanks Changed War Forever." The World from PRX. September 15, 2016. Accessed September 17, 2020. https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-09-15/day-tanks-changed-war-forever.

American Involvement in WWI

By Justin Hills

The U.S. Side of the War summarized from just before their declaration, to the final battles of the Western front

 

Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points

Sources:

 

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wilson-delivers-fourteen-points-speech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points

http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/fourteen-points.htm

 

Joseph Curry - Podcast 1 - The Kaiser

Joseph Curry The role of the Kaiser in the July Crisis, the war effort, and his life after in the Netherlands

U-Boat Sunk by a Sea Monster

Reuters, Thomas. "Engineers Stumble on WWI German Submarine Sunk by 'Sea Monster.'" CBC Radio-Canada. 19 October, 2016. Khan, Shehab. "Wreckage of Century Old German U-boat Discovered off Scottish Coast." The Independent. 19 October, 2016. "WWI U-boat Wreck Discovered off the Galloway Coast." Deutches U-Boot Museum. October, 2016.

Zone Rouge

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Introduction of Plastic Surgery The Introduction to the Plastic Surgery Movement

Source: https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/birth-plastic-surgery

Conscientious Objectors in World War I

Sources

Anthony, Richards. (2014). The Conscientious Objectors Paid a High Price. The Telegram.Retrieved from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/inside-first-world-war/part-nine/10803538/conscientious-objectors-first-world-war.html.

Conscientious Objector. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/conscientious-objector.

Schleif, Luke. (2014). Conscientious Objectors. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Retrieved from https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/conscientious_objectors.

Yoder, Anne (N.D.). Conscientious Objection During World War I. Retrieved from  https://wwionline.org/articles/conscientious-objection-during-world-war-i/. 

Christmas Truce 1914

 

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/

https://www.britannica.com/event/The-Christmas-Truce