Did WWI lead to WWII? Click on the image above to watch a short video discussing this topic.
Click on the button below to access American Memory resources through the Library of Congress addressing how American citizens were involved in the war effort on the home front during both WWI and WWII.
Click on the button below to access American Memory resources through the Library of Congress addressing how American citizens were involved in the war effort on the home front during both WWI and WWII.
"In his April 1917 war declaration, Woodrow Wilson described the conflict as a war to make the world 'safe for democracy,' a phrase that would be mocked throughout the postwar period, as would the even more utopian formulation, the 'war to end all wars'" (Oklahoma Humanities Council, 2014).
Click on the button below to access primary sources provided by the Library of Congress addressing the aftermath of WWI, including the Treaty of Versailles, Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the League of Nations.
To learn about WWI poetry, click on the image of poppies above.
To read John McCrae's famous poem "In Flanders Fields," memorializing the April 1915 battle in Belgium’s Ypres Salient, click on the following link:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47380 To learn about John McCrae, click on his photo above. |
"The city celebrated the end of the war in 1919 like much of the rest of the nation- with an Armistice Day parade. North Carolina sent 86,437 soldiers as part of the US war effort; of which 828 were killed and nearly 3700 were wounded."
To learn about how WWI is being commemorated by the North Carolina Museum of History and the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, click on the images above. To access educational resources provided by the Centennial Commission, click on the button below.