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21. The Great War














Table of Contents | 1. Earth | 2. The Origin of Life and Evolution of Man | 3. Civilisation | 4. Fertile Crescent | 5. Egypt | 6. Indus Valley | 7. Yellow River (Haung He/Huang Ho) | 8. Hittites, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Assyrians | 9. New World (B. C./Pre-Columban) | 10. Greeks and Persians | 11. Rome ( - B. C. - A. D. 96) | 12. The Messiah/Christus, Jesus, James, Simon/Peter, Saul/Paul | 13. Rome ( - A. D. 275) | 14. Rome and Byzantium (Nova Roma) | 15. Islam | 16. Charlemagne | 17. Vikings | 18. Turks, Crusaders, Mongols, Moors, Explorers and Conquistadors | 19. Reformation, Enlightenment (1300s -1700s) | 20. Mid-1700s - early 1900s | 21. The Great War | 22. Inter-War Years | 23. The War in Europe and Africa | 24. Second World War | 25. War in the Pacific | 26. Defeating the Axis in Europe and Africa | 27. End of Japanese Imperialism | 28. Ending the War | 29. Conquest of Space | 30. Averting Nuclear War | 31. End of Empire | 32. Man on the Moon | 33. Arms Race and Limitation | 34. Lifting the Iron Curtain | 35. The 21st Century | 36. Outer Space | 37. | 42.





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Europe on the Brink
 
Episode from the 2007 BBC documentary series The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn
 
 
 
 
 
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The Causes and Immediate Effects of the Great War
 
1940 American documentary
 

 

 

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The Moroccan and Bosnian Crises
 
1905 - 1911
 
Lecture 10 on the Origins of the First World War
 
 
 
Italy takes Libya from the Ottomans
 
1911
 
Italo-Turkish War
 
1911 - 1912
 
3-Minute History
 
 
 
The Balkan Wars
 
1912 - 1913
 
Lecture 11 on the Origins of the First World War
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Top 10 Misconceptions about the Great War
 
A talk from series The Great War
 
 
 

 
The Great War in Europe    -    The Belligerents
 

 
World War I Timeline
 
Timeline
 
For a suggested timeline of major events:
 
 
 
 
 
















 

 

The Great War

 

World War I

 

1914 - 1918

 

 

World War One 
 
All five parts of the documentary series Epic History
 
 

 

Le Dessous des Cartes

 

Jean-Christophe Victor

 

1914

 

1. LES FACTEURS DE LA GUERRE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tkWQL_FgAo

 

2. LES ÉTINCELLES DE LA GUERRE

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrckZR6AB0

 

 

Origins of World War I

 

Documentary

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7kp3vf1uKA&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjlGoe1mnw0&feature=related

 

 

Causes of World War I

 

History of World Civilizations

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8A_8gUc3Y

 

 

 

Causes of the war

 

 

 

 

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand,

of Austria, heir to the throne

of Austria-Hungary (1863 -

28 June 1914)

 


 

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Map of Europe in 1914


 

 

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Map of the ethnic groups in Austria-Hungary in 1910. This map is based on Distribution of Races in Austria-Hungary by William R. Shepherd in 1911. The names of cities on the map in 1910 are changed to their post-1945 names.


 

 

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on - Stock Image

While on a visit to the city of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was controlled by Austria and Hungary, Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife were shot and killed by a Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, on 28 June 1914. Princip was one of many Slavs who wanted the southern Slavic provinces of Austria-Hungary to form a separate country (eventually, in 1918, Yugoslavia). 

Princips died in prison from an illness in 1918.  

 

 

Assassination of Austrian heir to the Hapsburg throne

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vaRWhADXwU&feature=related 

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLe0TNMDX84&feature=related

 

 

Austria-Hungary

 

Its rise and fall displayed over a map 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLSUZ1qlVM&feature=related

 

 

The Origins of World War 1

 

Lecture # 13 by John Merriman from the history course France Since 1871 (HIST 276), Yale U., Fall 2007

 

- Tangled Maps of Empire:

    Diplomatic Origins of the First World War

 

- A Delicate Balances:

    The Shifting Alliances of the Great Powers

 

- The British Empire on the World Stage: 

     Capabilities on the Continent

 

- Mounting Tensions in Alsace-Lorraine:

     The Saverne Crisis

 

- War Expectations and Enthusiasm

 

On You Tube:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOvB1e4t9jg

 

Yale U:

 

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-276/lecture-13

 

Transcript:

 

http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/368/hist-276

 

 

The Coming of the Great War

 

Lecture # 16 by John Merriman from the history course, European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202), Yale U., Fall 2008

 

- Origins of the First World War:

     The Tangled Web of Alliances and Rivalries

 

- Britain's Loyalties:

     Involvement in the Continental Competition

 

- The Formation of the Triple Entente

 

- The Saverne Incident

 

- The Schlieffen Plan:  

     The Timetable of Mobilization


On You Tube:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvFpn5GVdQI

 

Yale U.:

 

http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-202/lecture-16

 

Transcript:

 

http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/585/hist-202

 

 

Prelude to War

 

The Great War lecture series with Indy Neidell (2014)

 

1. Alliances and Enemies

2. From Balkan Troubles to World War

3. The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2702771343&feature=iv&list=PLB2vhKMBjSxMMg8xHeY2K-0ap9srI_zx7&src_vid=3LOaNzQbi00&v=f11CKYB2FCA

 

 

 

Henri GUILLEMIN présente

 

L'AUTRE AVANT-GUERRE (1871-1914)

 

(6 heures, 29 minutes, 56 secondes)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFerS2_2rD8

 

 

 

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Jean Jaurčs

 

3 septembre 1859 – 31 juillet 1914


 

 

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Jean Jaures


 

 

Assassination of Jean Jaures, Paris, August 1914

 

 

Le socialisme, Jaurčs

 

L'autre avant guerre, 1871-1914

 

Henri Guillemin

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Ao1e9RYyk

 

 

Jean Jaurčs

 

Henri Guillemin

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHYmIMkUTdk

 

ou

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ4cX7L_jw4

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6l3Ulu2SSg

 

 

Discours de Jaures 3 jours avant son assassinat

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEgxWFmLcE

 

 

L'assassinat de Jean Jaurčs, juillet 1914

Pierre Renaudel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BWhYZAnWlQ

 

Jaurčs, la naissance d'un géant

Téléfilm (2005)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfkZpGF7ZPQ

 

 

Pourquoi ont-ils tué Jaurčs?

Jacques Brel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqZ2pxLFYxA


ILS ONT ASSASSINE JAURES


Les brűlures de l'Histoire  (1994)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINxrfDeXxA 




 

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The war described over a map

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GKxQzHSGd4

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXqppJ-L88U&feature=related

 

 

The Guns of August

 

Documentary film (100 min.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=373PfwW2k6A

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4zPg5Kv_ug

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfs2W5cVvI

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DmB3JgH0o

 

 

The Great War

 

26-episode 1964 British TV series with Michael Redgrave 

 

Part 1. 1914

 

The five big European powers at the outbreak of war are Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia and Austria-Hungary.

 

The Balkan Wars and assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXhiagFG8KE

 

 

The First World War

 

1914 - "To Arms!"  

 

Episode 1 of a ten-part 2003 British TV series about WW1

 

How it started:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH-gMloGtYI

 

Or start here and watch all ten episodes, one after the other automatically, beginning with ep. 1:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3Sb8xiQ_c&index=1&list=PLC91A368FC30FFF95

 

 

 

World War I 

 

Summer at Sarajevo

 

Episode 1 of 9 in the 1965 American documentary series with Robert Ryan

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6xyU2JcGKs

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bBkTpM0xAw

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvZIg5_A_os

 

 

 

Franz Joseph (1830 - 1916),  Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, King of Bohemia et al (1848 - 1916), president of the German Confederation 

(1850 to 1866).

 

 

 

Conrad von Hötzendorf Franz

Franz Conrad Graf von Hötzendorf (1852 - 1925), Austrian Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Navy 1906–1917.

 

 

Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf

 

Austrai-Hungary's Strategic Mastermind

 

Episode from the talk series The Great War with Indy Neidell

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8-_GAc7g4

 

 

- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

 

28 July 1914

 

- Austria-Hungary shells Belgrade, capital of Serbia 

 

29 July 1914

 

 

The Outbreak of War

 

Episode from the lecture series The Great War with Indy Neidell

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FgaL0xIazk

 

 

First Week of the War

 

The Great War lecture series with Indy Neidell (2014)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0XfT60rvsA

 

 

- Russia mobilises

 

 

- Germany declares war on Russia

 

1 August 1914 

 

 

- Germany asks Belgium to allow its troops passage to France

 

2 August 1914

 

 

- British Parliament discusses war

 

Sir Edward Grey

 

Foreign Secretary  

 

Speech to Parliament, 3 August 1914

 

Excerpts

 

http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/parliament-and-the-first-world-war/video-resources/sir-edward-gray-ww1-video/

 

or

 

http://www.parliament.uk/education/teaching-resources-lesson-plans/ww1sourcepack/

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrePa0wGGNI

 

Transcript 

 

http://www.parliament.uk/education-resources/WW1/Edward-Grey-transcript.pdf 

 

 

Ramsey MacDonald

 

Leader of Labour MPs in Parliament

 

Response to Lord Grey's speech, 3 August 1914

  

Excerpts

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKbz0bXCCk8

 

Transcript

 

http://www.parliament.uk/education-resources/WW1/Ramsay-MacDonald-transcript.pdf

 

 

- Germany declares war on France

 

3 August 1914

 

 

- France declares war on Germany

 

3 August 1914

 

 

- England warns Germany of war if it invades Belgium

 

4 August

 

 

- Germany invades Belgium

 

4 August

 

 

- Britain declares war on Germany

 

4 August

 

 

The Necessary War

 

BBC documentary with Max Hastings (2014)

(59 minutes)

 

Poets fostered the common belief that the Great War was a futile conflict, a waste of life, a tragedy for Britain, and led to the rise of Hitler and the Second World War.

 

In truth, the First World War was unavoidable. The Germans intended to seize territory and dominate Europe. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Germany encouraged the Austrians to invade Serbia.

 

Once the Germans invaded France through Belgium, the British, guarantor of Belgium’s neutrality, had to act. (BBC)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU1HzdhEPbw

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QmAMbBReFA

 

 

 

 

 

World War One  -  1914

 

Episode from the documentary seres Epic History

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbwH1ZBnYds

 

 

The Civilian's Story

 

Episode from the BBC documentary The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn (HD)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNq0QmTTmTo

 

 

The Soldier's Story

 

Episode from the BBC documentary series The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXTSWmF29yw

 

 

Tactics and Strategy

 

Episode 7 of the documentary series World War 1 in Color narrated by Robert Powell (2003) (51:44)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fzk_m-qE0c

 

 

A New War With Old Generals

 

Carnage on the Western Front

 

Lecture by Indy Neidell from The Great War lecture series (2014)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-OYK2M4U3Y

 

 

Boer War to World War

 

How the British learnt its Lessons (15:29)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8jitGtA1x4

 

 

The German Army 1914 - 1918 

 

Strategic Perspectives

 

Lecture by Robert Foley at the Royal United Services Institute in London in 17 July 2014

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcwk1BcUUqM

 

 

 

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General Oberst Helmuth

Johann Ludwig von Moltke

(Moltke the Younger) (1848 -

1916), Chief of the German

General Staff (1906 to 1914)

 

 

 

     Western Front

 

 

Battle of the Frontiers

 

14 August  -  6 Septenber 1914 or

7 August  -  13 September 1914

 

 

Making the Front

 

Episode 1 of 6 of the 1999 BBC documentary series Western Front with Richard Holmes 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NDApxcMdHg

 

 

Battle of Mons

 

Aug. 23, 1914

 

 

Mons

 

Episode 3 of Season 1 of the documentary series War Walks with Richad Holmes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lahW_etCwuw

 

 

The Retreat from Mons

 

Episode from the British documetary series Line of Fire

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl0GzdcUde0 

 

 

 

    East Front

 

 

- Austro-Hungary declares war on Russia

 

6 August 1914

 

 

- Austria-Hungary invades Serbia

 

12 August 1914

 

 

The Deployment of Troops

 

The Great War talk series with Indy Neidell (2014)

 

Serbian troops repulse Austro-Hungarian invasion at the Battle of Cer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHIykUyBb0

 

 

Serbian Field Marshal Stepa Stepanovic

 

The Great War talk series with Indy Neidell (2014)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY3Zubdkw7A

 

 

The Road to War

 

Austrian documentary (2014) (51:37)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnkVVyru3KY

 

 

 

German General Paul von Hindenberg

and his chief of staff, Erich von Ludendorf,

led the German army in its victory over

the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg

from 26 to 30 August 1914. (1916 photo)

 

 

Paul von Hindenberg

 

Hero of Tannenberg

 

Episode from the talk series The Great War with Indy Neidell

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2MOAj1Dmfc

 

 

 

Battle of Tannenberg

 

17 - 30 August 1914

 

 

Battle of Tannenberg

 

Episode from the documentary series World War I

 

4 clips

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFGDZuepy_w

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_wKldxUU2E

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArcuCCz4Wo

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYPsAbM_4oQ


 

La bataille de Tannenberg

 

Les Grandes Batailles (44:45)

 

Von Hindenberg vs Le Grand Duc Nicolas

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFTpem2LAbE

 

 

Mythos Tannenberg  

 

Der Krieg im Osten

 

Der Erste Weltkrieg # 1

 

Doku

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umm5qO12rr4

 

 

Tannenberg

 

Ein Film über den Welt Krieg I (1932)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Q4ihrRR5I

 

 

Das Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmal 
 

 

 

    Western Front

 

 

The Great Retreat

 

24 Aug. - 5 Sept. 1914

 

 

First Battle of the Marne

 

6 - 12 September 1914

 

 

 

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Gen. Joseph Joffre (1852- 1931),

Commander-in-Chief of French

forces on the Western Front 

(1914 - 1916). Defeated the

advancing Germans in the First

Battle of the Marne in September

1914, saving Paris and put the

Germans in retreat.

 

 

Le Miracle de la Marne

 

 

La Marne 1914

 

Les Grandes Batailles du Passé

 

Documentaire par Henri de Turenne et Daniel Costelle (1975)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_YxQKB3igQ

 

 

Germany in Two-Front War and the Schlieffen-Plan I

 

A talk from the series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0XfT60rvsA

 

 

The Schlieffen Plan

 

And Why it Failed

 

A talk from the series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHeMPV5VDR4

 

 

What if the Schlieffen Plan Succeeded?

 

A talk from the series The Great War

 

Part 1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jNjJueYnLI

 

Part 2.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezaSt0IPrIk

 

 

We Must Hack Our Way Through

 

Episode 3 of 26 of the 1964 BBC-TV series The Great War narrated by Michael Redgrave 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWfUBwyfCx4

 

 

Our Hats We Doff to General Joffre

 

Episode 4 of 26 of the 1964 BBC-TV series The Great War narrated by Michael Redgrave

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tvLJbug_cg

 

 

This Business may last a Long Time

 

Episode 5 of 26 of the 1964 BBC-TV series The Great War narrated by Michael Redgrave

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHsu4zLzw8s 

 

 

Aviation

 

Episode from the lecture series The Great War by Indy Neidell

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oxX4Q6ndo

 

 

 

    East Front

 

 

First Battle of the Masurian Lakes

 

Sept. 7 - 14, 1914

 

 

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General Erich von Falkenhayn

(1861 - 1922), Chief of the

German General Staff (1914

- 1916)

 

 

    Western Front

 

 

The Race to the Sea

 

Sept. 17 - Oct. 17 or 19, 1914

 

 

First Battle of Ypres

 

Oct. 12 - Nov. 11, 1914

 

 

Christmas in the trenches 1914

 

The Christmas Truce

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYBBZUV1Y1Y

 

 

Reenactments

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHObCL2luMw

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CC5SFPooc8

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p05E_ohaQGk

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgLcvjA8NDk

 

 

La fraternisation de Noël

 

Premičre Guerre Mondiale

 

2000 ans d'histoire sur France Inter (2005)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTDXJ-P9Ms

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3wjPPte490

 

 

The Christmas Truce

 

1981 BBC documentary (35 min)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WgPi_me1p4

 

 

World War Truce

 

Video short about a football match between British and German soldiers on Christmas Day 1914

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYeOA45oUI4

 

 

 

    The War at Sea

 

 

First Battle of Heligoland Bight

 

North Sea

 

First naval battle of the First World War

 

28 August 1914

 

 

Battle of Coronel

 

South Pacific Ocean off Chile

 

28 August 1914

 

 

Battle of Cocos

 

Indian Ocean

 

9 November 1914

 

 

Battle of the Falkland Islands

 

South Atlantic Ocean

 

8 December 1914

 

 

Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)

 

Excerpt from a documentary (2:03)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anATgBxYVoI

 

 

Standing Up to the Royal Navy

 

Maximillan Von Spee

 

From the series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtGRhK5RCHw

 

 

The Last Ship Afloat

 

Episode from the documentary series Hunt the Kaiser's Cruisers

 

(50:29)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxlS07si37g

 

 

So Sleep Easy in Your Beds

 

Episode 6 of the BBC documentary series The Great War with Michael Redgrave (40:12)

 

Naval battles of Coronel, the Cocos and the Falkland Islands in 1914

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ZyMKhNQ9k

 

Or in four clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZrO1GgFyps

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoCtzFsgEJg

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGC4MAO5Hg

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS5rXiNwQKs

 

 

 

Battle of Cocos

 

9 November 1914

 

The Story of the SMS Emden

 

Episode from thr series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51FXgQOoppw

 

 

The Caravan of Sailors

 

Episode from the British documentary series Hunt the Kaiser's Cruisers

 

(50:46)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kleS8kmH28A

 

In French (51:45):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2pRRF6JpZo

 

 

Die Männer der Emden

 

2012

 

There are audio problems with this upload

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvjQbwxfnec

 

 

 

        The War in Asia

 

 

The Siege of Tsingtao

 

The Japanese lay siege to a German port in China from 31 October to 7 November 1914 and took it over

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teLj4-NEd74

 

 

 

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World War One  -  1915

 

Episode from the documentary series Epic History

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSzHDW0IsoE

 

 

 

              Italy

 

 

Italy in the Great War

 

THE GREAT WAR series 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzjjBQl0fu0

 

 

Luigi Cadorna

 

The Generalissimo

 

THE GREAT WAR series

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqqOzSEfIak

 

 

Italian front in World War I

 

Khan Academy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQyM-4YqHMM

 

 

 

    East Front

 

 

Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes

 

Feb. 7 - Feb. 22, 1915

 

 

    Western Front

 

 

Life and Death in the Trenches

 

Lecture # 8 from World War 1  -  The Great War by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPw-r46Rh2c

 

 

Second Battle of Ypres

 

April 22 - May 25, 1915

 

 

Gas warfare

 

Tried by the French in limited use in 1914. employed to fuller extent by the Germans in 1915 

 

 

Poison Gas Warfare

 

From The Great War talk series

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHFEPu_ANI

 

 

Feeding the Front

 

Episode # 2 of the 1999 BBC documentary BBC series Western Front with Richard Holmes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPoiTzD5SO4

 

 

Laboratory of War

 

2008 BBC documentary about gas warfare in WW1

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QxtB6s-4oM

 

 

 

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The Lusitania

 

In 1915, a German submarine torpedoed a British passenger ship, the RMS Lusitania, off the Irish coast, and claimed the Cunard ocean liner was carrying arms from neutral America for the enemy British. 1,195 passengers, including 129 Americans, perished.

 

The sinking of the Lusitania by the Germans was one of many such incidents that eventually caused the Americans to join the war against the Germans in 1917.  

 

Terror at Sea

The Sinking of the Lusitania

2013 movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPHnb4vcCXk

 

 

Le drame de Lusitania

Ep. 4 documentaire histoire Guerre 14-18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmR_SbFSn0

 

 

Lusitania

 

Murder on the Atlantic

 

2007 movie

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69iFyMvUDAc

 

Or in 2 clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj7WatV4Xcw

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWgC51xrcfg

 

 

 

The Lusitania

 

Episode from the documentary series In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy recounts that the Lusitania carried munitions and had deck guns and considers the possibility that the ship was deliberately sent to its doom in order to draw the Americans into the war.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74xkwPJuLrA

 

or in two parts:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VKV0yZIasw

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWe9qTFgLe4

 

 

 

The Lusitania

 

Documentary considers exportation of the wreck by divers

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhBZVSLHSvc

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kXOiRqXNE

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAciEwtJ_0s

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWInAmghYkg

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alrwUnn4z9Y

 

 

Dark Secrets of the Lusitania

Excerpt from National Geographic documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8kIRDR_7aI

 

 

The Lusitania

 

Sinking Simulator

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPNUIZcmbUw

 

 

The Sinking of the Lusitania

Winsor McCay cartoon (1915)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws5kGs_J-CM

 

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The Great War in the Near East

 

Gallipoli/Dardanelles

 

Feb. 15, 1915 - Jan. 1916

 

The situation before the war, 1914

 

 

 

Blood and Oil

 

The Middle East in World War I

 

Documentary by Marty Callaghan (01:53:13)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0evPEsc30

 

Complete documentary appears on You Tube as The Middle East during World War I (22 clips)

 

The following links are to the first eight clips of the above program and the six clips of its last half as World War 1 in the Middle East.

 

The Middle East during World War I

 

first 8 of 22 clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM9-NiMUz9k

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJe_-FY_7c&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tqUn1DQGMs&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=889ao2Pnwso&feature=relmfu

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwGtMTB5bJg&feature=relmfu

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR7NZzcQycY&feature=relmfu

 

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNotDL72Fw&feature=relmfu

 

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdViYnf-gio&feature=relmfu

 

The first 40 seconds of the last clip overlap the next clip listed below.

 

World War I in the Middle East

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09zEFxWFJcQ

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoTY_hgUQRY&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfFt4RPKfs&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tEvynlDYKo&feature=relmfu

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v_uPHPLsHw&feature=relmfu

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KYo6MvPw50&feature=relmfu

 

 

Jihad - 1914 to 1916

 

Episode 4 of 10 of the 2003 series The First World War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4gn_6qOW2c&feature=related

 

 

"Please God, send us a victory." (Soldier's prayer)

 

Episode 9 of 26 of the 1964 BBC documentary series The Great War narrated by Michael Redgrave

 

Ottoman Empire joins the war on the side of the Central Powers, Armenian massacres and Gallipoli Campaign (Album notes)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUmd4lg7Y-Y

 

 

D-Day at Gallipoli

 

Episode 9 of Volume 1 of the 1963 series World War I

 

Narrated by Robert Ryan

 

In the East, the Ottoman Empire seems vulnerable to attack. In an effort to break the deadlocked war open, the British commence a disastrous invasion of Turkish territory at Gallipoli (album notes).

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPYwNPUg5Ac

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4A252DdWFA

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB-hz1m2e_o

 

 

The Gallipoli Disaster

 

From the Battlefield Detectives series

 

(5 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNMLpOEEsM

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waGu89Hynaw&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lIXXh_zOkQ&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9QPOSu_Bc&feature=relmfu

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AzkKmh6aSI&feature=relmfu

 

 

Gallipoli's Deep Secrets

 

Documentary about the search for the sunken ships of the Royal Navy in the Dardanelles  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcyK32134o

 

 

Winston Churchill and the Dardanelles

It wasn't all Churchill's fault

Lecture by Christopher Bell

National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City. Missouri

Uploaded in 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMFpn45tDM

 

Winston Churchill and the Creation of the Modern Middle East


Lecture by John H. Maurer at the Middle East History Institute of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Pittsburgh in November 2013

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX8i6Q-GckA

 

 

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HMHS Britannic
 
Sister ship of the RMS Titanic 
 
 
HMHS Britannic
 
Episode 1 of the 2016 documentary series Ocean Liners of Kea
 
 
 
Calypso's Search for the Britannic
 
L’énigme du Britannic
 
1977 Episode from the documentary series 
The Cousteau Odyssey
 
Jacques Cousteau's discovery of the HMHS Brittanic in 1975
 
 
or
 
 
 
The Curse of the Titanic Sister Ships
 
2005 NOVA documentary about a 2003 Australian expedition to the wreck of HMHS Britannic (46:51)
 
Expedition confirmed that the ship hit a mine
 
 
or
 
 
or
 
 
 
 
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World War One - 1916

 

Episode from the documentary series Epic History

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-b746J2SdI

 

 

 

Winston Churchill, centre, 

at the front in 1916

 

Churchill was blamed for the Allied failure to take Gallipoli. He lost his position as First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. He joined the army and went to the front.

 

 

Churchill's First World War

 

BBC documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snLTRofTEP8

 

 

Winston Churchill

 

First Lord of the Admiralty

 

A talk from the series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMz3dO4EqiM

 

 

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"Allah made Mesopotamia - and added flies" (Arabian proverb)

 

Ep. 24 of 26 of the 1964 BBC documentary series The Great War narrated by Michael Redgrave


War in the Middle East. British capture Basra and mount an unsuccessful campaign toward Baghdad. Ottomans fail to capture Suez but check the British advance in Palestine. Britain encourages Arab Revolt against the weakened Ottomans, then captures Baghdad, Jerusalem and, in 1918, Damascus. The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the seeds of future conflicts. (Album notes)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSWz1etMfg4

 

 

The Promised Lands

 

Episode 9 of Volume 2 of the 1963 series World War I narrated by Robert Ryan 

 

As the Ottoman Empire crumbles in the East, the British attack its outposts in Arabia. A campaign involving the Arabs under the command of Lawrence of Arabia culminates in the conquest of Jerusalem. (Album notes)

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ZDjYUFhH8

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd0cE6dToiw

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_85fMz8hIY

 

 

 

End of the Ottoman Empire

 

 

Ottoman Empire in WW1

 

British documentary

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX7S_9964is&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYfXIiGFEE&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jFBgAvzoNY&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PNqGmLyNI0&feature=relmfu

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Xve3YV-QA&feature=relmfu

 

 

Fall of the Ottoman Empire

 

Documentary

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8EKN1XyiT0&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TojC0uY5cW8&feature=relmfu

 

 

Lawrence of Arabia

 

T. E. Lawrence  -  Lawrence of Arabia

(1888-1935), portrait by Augustus John 

 

 

Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt

 

Documentary

 

(2 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B2JikABjA8&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8hghqkdkeo&feature=relmfu

 

 

Lowell Thomas and Lawrence of Arabia

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtd2E7qHMk&feature=related

 

 

T. E. Lawrence and Arabia

 

1986 BBC documentary

 

(7 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9UfvVDN_nc

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETViPePYyHU

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7BchrfXDqM

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk2L9JrTbjE

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Izn0WcWs4

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcyKiO4Zp8k

 

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lVRQ3nFKsk

 

 

In the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZQj5YAtBdc

 

 

There was a Nat. Geo. doc. about Lawrence in the desert some 20 years ago. Where is it?

 

 

Lawrence of Arabia

 

Opening scene of 1962 movie with Peter O'Toole

 

Death of Lawrence

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYcZUSknEUc

 

Advertisement:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4VDmF7zJrs&feature=related

 

Movie (03:47:05):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjVA90jaEKs

 

or

 

https://archive.org/details/LawrenceOfArabiaOldFilm

 

 

Learning from Lawrence of Arabia

 

Bill Moyers Essay

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ_UA4jFX5I


 

Lawrence of Arabia

 

The Battle for the Arab World

 

Two-part PBS documentary

 

Part 1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zLTXgYLbw (54:57)

 

Part 2.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2I7j3BaQ6c (54:49)

 

 

A Dangerous Man

 

Lawrence after Arabia

 

1992 British movie with Ralph Fiennes (1:43:52)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a729KpqD5oI

 

 

The Legacy of Lawrence of Arabia

 

Two-part BBC documentary

 

Part 1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD1_OI730MU

 

Part 2.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MZrGtUPhDw

 

 

 

 

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Ottoman possessions in the Near East in 1914

 

 

 

The War in the Balkans

 

"The iron thrones are falling." -  A British officer

 

Episode # 25 of the 1964 British documentary series The Great War narrated by Michael Redgrave

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_G-0lIOeqc

 

French version

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MteCWGGar78

 

 

Balfour Declaration

 

November 1917

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=acMa7fYtdzA&NR=1

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm06MpInKwM&feature=related

 

 

The Balfour Declaration   

 

The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

 

Lecture by Johnathan Schneer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEI1yc3YTI&feature=related

 

 

The Grand Mufti

 

Documentary about Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjQ9ZnHui1w

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHpSH5FDsEo

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpprFyrflmI&feature=relmfu

 

 

Middle East   -   The Birth of Nations

 

Episode from the BBC documentary series The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn (52:00)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkleVGFhYE

 

or in four/five clips:

 

1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C6c_gUMecE

 

2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG8u1ojeI

 

3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMUAG7i5T7Y

 

4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ew7-hgRneQ

 

5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBoDNAAiXww

 

 

 

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    Western Front

 

 

Battle of Verdun

 

21 Feb. 1916 - 18 Dec. 1916

 

 

General Philippe Pétain (1856 - 1951),

Victor of Verdun

 

 

Petain v.s. von Falkenhayn

Episode from the Clash of Warriors documentary series

Fed up with futile charges into enemy fire that mowed down thousands, French soldiers mutinied. Petain resolved the matter by ending charges and holding onto defensive positions, absorbing enemy offensives and exhausting the Germans.       

Henri Philippe Petain and Verdun 

In French:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0CC3g9rIXM

 

 

The Lion of Verdun

 

Philippe Petain

 

A talk from the series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4lna6vVSl4

 

 

Petain: The Pessimistic Patriot

 

Lecture by John Derry at a meeting of the Western Front Association in York in May 2011

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIUiTkrJI68

 

 

The Battle of Verdun

 

Episode from the  2006 British documentary series 1916 - Total War with Julian Thompson

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y79-PJt-YzE

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIStoJatyj4 

 

 

VERDUN, AUX PORTES DE L'ENFER

 

Documentaire (52:24)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svL5V_8z4UQ

 

 

Die Hölle von Verdun 1916
 
Doku
 
 
 
Apocalypse
 
Verdun
 
(1:27:08)
 
 
 
Battle of Verdun
 
Episode from the documentary series World War 1
 
 

 

Holding the Front

 

Episode # 3 of 6 of the 1999 BBC documentary series Western Front with Richard Holmes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py81BzuCQSA

 

 

Verdun

 

1916

 

Les grandes batailles du passé

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf2DnJ-Jr7E

 

 

Verdun

 

The Bleeding of Nations

 

Lecture by Richard Faulkner at the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri on 14 December 2016

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBuViX-FKoE

 

 

 

North Sea

 

 

Battle of Jutland

 

31 May - 1 June 1916

 

The biggest and only major naval battle of the Great War

 

The British navy, dominating the sea and unchallenged since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, enountered the smaller German navy off the coast of Denmark's Jutland Peninsula. In the ensuing battle, the British lost more ships and more men but knocked the German navy out of the war.  

  

 

Dreadnoughts of WWI

 

Episode 2 of the documentary series History of Battleships

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXvrgxQ57zE

 

 

Jutland   -   Clash of the Dreadnoughts

 

2-part 2004 documentary

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_xtimui_HE

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0D3J6Yvi94

 

 

The Battle of Jutland 

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTTE-052I0o 

 

 

Jutland

 

Lecture # 11 from the audiobook series Naval Battles that Changed History

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyg8ypBSw-w

 

  

 

    Western Front

 

 

First Battle of the Somme

 

July 1 - Nov. 13, 1916

 

 

World War One  -  Battle of the Somme

 

1 July 1916

 

Episode from the documentary series Epic History

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqvALkpsfRo

 

 

The Battle of the Somme

 

Episode from the 2006 British documentary series 1916 - Total War with Julian Thompson

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkboF4hu-bE

 

 

The Somme

The Battle for the Truth

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOO1lfBKCK4

 

The Battle of the Somme

60th Anniversary Programme

Told by Leo McKern (1979)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK9twPGZKE8

 

 

Here Comes Kitchener's Army

 

Episode from the documentary series Great Battles of the Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4e_TxEDjk

 

 

Douglas Haig

 

The Architect of the Battle of the Somme?

 

From the talk series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0CwqA-UB-0

 

 

First use of the tank in warfare -

 

Battle of the Somme, 1916

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU8Ms3B8hJ8

 

 

The Battle of the Somme

 

1916 film

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krT1lX_Dvm0

 

 

 

German leaders of the war Field Marshall Paul

von Hindenburg (left) (1847 - 1934), Chief of the German General Staff from 1916 to 1919, and his chief of staff, General Erich von Ludendorf (right)

(1865 - 1937), from 1916 to 1918 (painting by Hugo Vogel)

 

 

Commanding the Front

 

Episode 4 of 6 of the 1999 BBC documentary series Western Front with Richard Holmes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNWrnCmRoBc

 

 

Haig  -  The Unknown Soldier

 

Episode about British Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig from the BBC Timewatch documentary series

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRyqu0wdRR0

 

 

 

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Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany confers with his generals, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, January 1917
German Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941) (center) with von Hindenburg (left) and von Ludendorff (right) in January 1917
 

 

World War One  -  1917

 

Episode from the documentary series Epic History

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0Wz-o4dTI

 

 

 

    Western Front

 

 

The Hindenburg (Siegfried) Line

 

Episode from the talk series The Great War with Indy Neidell

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vvGK_BWsI4

 

 

The Nivelle Offensive 

 

Spring 1917

 

16 April - 9 May 1917

 

 

The Second Battle of Arras

 

9 April - 16 May 1917

 

 

Chemin des Dames

 

The Second Battle of the Aisne

 

16 April - 9 May 1917

 

 

Enduring the Front

 

Episode 5 of 6 of the 1999 BBC documentary series Western Front

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zETtlyVGsE

 

 

 

 

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January 16, 1917 - British Cryptographers Intercept Zimmerman Telegram Pictured - Spoils of war promised to Mexico if it declared war on the United States. The bulk of cables linking both sides of the Atlantic by telegram belonged to Britain, and...

In January 1917, Germany offered to restore to Mexico land taken from it by the U. S. since 1836   -  the state of Texas and the territories of Arizona and New Mexico  -  if Mexico joined Germany in a war against the U. S.

 

 

 

Mexican Revolution

 

1910 - 1920

 

The Zimmerman Telegram

 

Episode from series The Great War  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzsVUT7WqHA

 

 

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The Yanks are Coming!

 

 

WILSON ASKS CONGRESS TO DECLARE WAR

 

2 April 1917

Pathe silent news film with commentary added in 1960 for the Milestones of the Century

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP_zPq7N4_c

 

A reading of the text of President Woodrow Wilson's request to the Congress (1917)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6OVy2fK8o

 

US Congress declares War on Germany

6 April 1917

 

 

The USA declares war on Germany in WW1

 

6 April 1917

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsLzfiCFJ90

 

 

 

The First American Shots of WW1

 

Guam And The Cormoran

 

A Talk from the series The Great War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaqXy_-rh2A

 

 

"Over There"

Song by George M. Cohan sung by Billy Murray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbggEGUaE28

 

 

George M. Cohan singing Over There!

 

1936 radio broadcast

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGsVguiM5ao

 

 

Excerpts from the 1942 Hollywood movie Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney portraying George M. Cohan

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7jlmdqMu7Y

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ktNsYMaag 

 

 

Sung by Enrico Caruso

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIr-FoBW5Xw

 

 

 

                           - - - - - - - - - -

 

 

    Western Front

 

 

Third Battle of Ypres

 

July 31 - Nov. 6, 1917

 

 

 

 

Battle of Cambrai

 

Nov. 20 - Dec. 7, 1917

 

 

Mark IV

One of the first tanks in warfare, introduced by the British on the Somme in 1916

 

 

Cambrai

 

Episode 4 of 12 of the documentary series Line of Fire

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsomnLUpS30

 

 

Tanks

 

Episode from the 1995 BBC documentary series Timewatch

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjxia4beWwQ

 

 

Tanks

 

Episode from the documentary series Turning Point

 

(2 clips)

 

The tank at the Somme

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y0ZHESxVEc

 

The tank in Cambrai

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy8hpDRx8D4

 

 

 

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Aerial bombing by blimps

 

 

German postcard

 

 

German Zeppelins (blimps) in the Great

War 

 

1914 - 1918

 

 

The First Blitz

 

Episode from the BBC Timewatch documentary series about German Zeppelin bombing of England in the Great War (2008) (44:56)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2qYkgsuQ4 

 

 

Zeppelins

 

Deadly Airships

 

Lecture by Indy Neidell from the lecture series The Great War (2014)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlQgprSGpNI

 

 

Zeppelin Terror Attack

 

Nova Documentary (55:22)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzW4258oIyg

 

 

 

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Mata Hari

 

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle

(1876 - 1917) in c. 1905 photo

 

 

Dancer, Lover, Spy

 

Episode from the lecture series The Great War with Indy Neidell (2014)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuHimVPrOLw

 

 

Mata Hari

 

Episode from the documentary series Biography

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWvk00RbMcM

 

 

Execution de Mata Hari

 

2000 ans d'histoire (2005)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOmQPJIX7E

 

 

The Mystery of Mata Hari

 

Episode from the documentary series Great Mysteries and Myths (1996)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR42WmAPuvM

 

 

Mata Hari

 

1931 movie with Greta Garbo

 

Preview

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y6gXXWchU0

 

 

Mata Hari, la vraie histoire

 

2003 (01:44:37)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYJHb25EVs

 

 

     -     -     -      -     -    -  

 

 

    East Front

 

Russian Revolution (1917)

 

- The February 1917 Revolution   -   Russian army mutinies and joins the revolutionaries  

 

- Russian Provisional Government

 

- Liberal coalition   -   March to July 1917

 

Under pressure from his military commanders, anticipating an invasion by Germany, and leaders of the newly formed provisional government, 

fearing civil war, the Czar abdicates in March 1917 

 

 

 

The Kerensky Offensive/The Galician Offensive/The July Offensive

 

July 1 - 11, 1917

 

Alexander Kerensky, Minister of War

 

Repulsed by Germans and forced to retreat 

 

 

vidoes here

 

 

The socialist coalition government led by 

Alexander Kerensky from July 1917 to the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 

 

 

The Russian Revolution

 

Episode from the documentary series Epic History

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9G1QUIm7w

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monarchies Tumble
 
Numerous monarchies fell in WW1 or as a result of it
 
Russia (1917), Germany (1918), Austria (1919), Ottoman Empire (1922) 
 
 
 
The Fall of the Romanovs (1917)
 
 

Czar Nicholas II of Russia

 

Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov (1868

- 1918), Czar Nicholas II (1894 - 1917),

last czar of Russia, abdicated on March

15, 1917, executed by communists on

July 17, 1918

 

 

Russian Imperial Anthem (1833 - 1917)

 

Instrumental

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBWbLs5wuuc&feature=related

 

Choral

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYdTwGjxegM

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEATiGKOTEs&feature=related

 

1915 recording

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQMM5Xnnw74&feature=related

 

Czar Nicolas and family
 
 
The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
 
Lecture # 19 by John Merriman of the course European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202) Yale U., Fall 2008
 
1. The Process of Revolution: Political Competition after the February Revolution

2. Czar Nicholas II, a Family Man
 
3. The Father of His People: Narod and the National Family
 
4. The Fall of the Romanovs
 
You Tube:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGFilsLo6OI&feature=relmfu

 

Yale U.:

 

 

Transcript:

 

 

 

Last of the Czars
 
Three-part 1996 documentary
 
Part 1. Nicky and Alix
 
 
Part 2. The Shadow of Rasputin
 
 
Part 3. Death of the Dynasty
 

 

 

 

 

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The Russian Revolution
 
 
Image result for stalin, trotsky and lenin
Leaders of the Russian Revolution in 1917, from left to right: Leon Trotsky, Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin 

 

They consolidated Russia and neighbouring countries under Soviet rule.

 

 

 

Lenin

 

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (non de guerre:
Lenin) (1870 - 1924), Russian politician
and revolutionary. Head of the Russian
Marxist Social (-ist) Democrat Party and
later its majority (Bolshevik) faction which

he renamed the Communist Party in 1917.
Lenin led the Russian revolution in October
1917 that toppled the provisional
government and installed the Bolsheviks
in power. Head of the Russian Soviet
Federative Socialist Republic (Russian
Federation) from 1917 to 1922. Founder
of the Soviet Union (USSR), which he
headed from 1922 to 1924. Lenin

nationalized farms, factories and

businesses. His political theories or

doctrines are called Marxist-Leninism.


 

 

Lenin

 

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  -  Voice of the Revolution

 

Episode from the documentary series Biography

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaK-l0bPyY0 (44:38)

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkXhdolyRWs (44:28)

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbCuPmZAuVo (44:28)

 

 

 

Lenin: Revolutionary

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LE6BmWXJaY

 

or in 4 clips:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGE6T3SRNAs

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTrmUC3E5FE

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCpNlaYEvik&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUKUX5O04Xc&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

Lenin

 

Discussion on the BBC weekly radio program In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg and guests, March 16, 2000 (30 min.)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00546pv

 

or on You Tube (28:15):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-TI2XwMU0M

 

 

 

In March 1917, the Germans and the French faced each other on the Western front with neither side gaining ground against the other.

 

The Germans feared the American entry in the war would tip the balance in favor of the French.

 

To defeat the French the Germans needed more manpower. The Germans were fighting a two-front war. Thus, the Germans could defeat neither the Russians in the east nor the French in the west.

 

If the Germans could end the war with the Russians in the east they could move their army from the eastern front to the western front and mount a successful offensive against the French before the Americans would be ready to fight.

 

Unable to push the German armies out of Russia and control a revolution at home, the Czar of Russia abdicated in February/March 1917.

 

In the new government in Russia, Kerensky was intent on pursuing the war against the Germans.

 

So the Germans decided to send the Bolshevik revolutionary Lenin, who wanted an end to the war in order to pursue revolution in Russia, back to Russia from his exile in Switzerland in the hope that he would topple the Russian government and agree to an armistice with Germany.

 

 

Fall of Eagles

 

Excerpt from 1974 TV series

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjt452YzkM

 

 

The Sealed Train

Lenin   -   The Train

 

1988 TV movie about the return of Lenin from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd in 1917 with Ben Kingsley portraying Lenin.

 

Part 1. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrB-SKDJlY (1:42:58)

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBndgWOdYqQ (1:42:54)

 

Part 2.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFePCIICbTU (1:43:12)

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJYOHGEQLfc (1:43:11)

 

 

 

 

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Trotsky

 

Related image

Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), founder of the Red Army, addressing soldiers in 1917

 

 

Leon Trotsky

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phyQY9ptbJw&feature=related

 

 

Trotsky:

 

Rise & Fall of a Revolutionary

 

Documentary

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6galA27h-TQ&feature=related

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7C0sV0g_gI&feature=relmfu

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6GBFbkMS78&feature=relmfu

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKsFz9JhDJg&feature=relmfu

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni5eruxwuBI&feature=relmfu

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAVrCzMKdQ&feature=relmfu

 

 

The Assassination of Trotsky

 

1972 movie with Richard Burton as Trotsky

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeKHthb-YMM

 

 

 

 

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Stalin

 

 

Joseph Stalin (1878 - 1953),

ruled Soviet Union for 29 years

 

 

 

Joseph Stalin in Private/The Private Life of Joseph Stalin

 

One of four parts from a 6-part 1992 documentary series, A Portrait of Stalin

 

[3 more parts mentioned below])

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDEfrwYaMIA

 

 

Stalin

 

Biographical documentary (03:22:00)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5na7R9KWIs

 

 

Stalin

 

1992 Hollywood movie with Robert Duvall

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxP7FNX2nqk&feature=related

 

 

 

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Allies in Russia

 

Episode from WW1 documentary series narrated by Robert Ryan (1963)

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztoanCNsr0&playnext=1&list=PLC8775892DC1E34D8&feature=results_video

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMZHApsHd8A&playnext=1&list=PLBF02C8EA237CF8CA&feature=results_video

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ7WS0snLUw&playnext=1&list=PLBF02C8EA237CF8CA&feature=results_video

 

 

Russian Revolution

 

Episode from the British documentary series on WW1 narrated by Michael Redgrave

 

(4 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQUAW_CdBds

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_eHNrLKUe8

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd51pue58U0

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2isRAUsTJ1Q&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

Lenin and The Great Ungluing

 

Episode 5 of the 1977 documentary series The Age of Uncertainty with John Kenneth Galbraith

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxAoymq_SEA&feature=relmfu

 

 

The Russian Revolution

 

Documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WxNQLr2dKA&feature=related

 

 

 

Russian Revolution (in Color)

 

Part 1. Freedom and Hope

 

2007 documentary about the Kronstadt sailors and the Communist revolution in Russia (1:33:45)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me7vZ1qes8k

 

 

  

October: Ten Days that shook the World

 

1928 movie by Sergei Eisenstein

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeIn8AduwTg&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1

 

 

Karl Marx

 
A reading from Bertrand's Russell's History of Western Philosophy (1945)
 

 

 

Anthem of the Russian Provisional Government

 

"The Worker's Marseillaise", almost the same as La Marseillaise (from March to October 1917)

 

Instrumental:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBKhN8Cu9mw

 

With Russian lyrics:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqGJYIsELLU

 

 

The International

 

National Anthem of Russia in October 1917 and of the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1944

 

Instrumental

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko372vrAsfM&feature=related

 

Sung at the Soviet Union National Congress, 1978

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEI_Cd8azBY&feature=related

 

 

 

 
 
 
 




The Russian Revolution and Civil War

1917 to 1921

Antony Beevor

London, 2023

The causes and major events of the Russian Revolution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p52KiKFkLRM



L'ultime voyage des Romanov

Documentaire

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jURu4rY3n2I


The Fall of Eagles

1974


Ep. 1. Death Waltz

1853 – 1860

The Austrian court

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo21LRTc1Uc


Ep. 2. The English Princess

1858 – 1871

Victoria, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of the United Kingdom

Otto von Bismarck

Austro - Prussian War

Franco - Prussian War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw7D7SDHofQ


Ep. 3. The Honest Broker

1887 – 1890

Bismarck

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Bismarck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuKCnCQ754s


Ep. 4. Requiem for a Crown Prince

1889

House of Habsburg

Mayerling

Assassination of the Empress in 1898 in Geneva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOQXPb4rajU


Ep. 5. The Last Tsar

1894

Tsar Alexander III

Nicholas II

Vladimir Lenin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIzOtoTn9kI


Ep. 6. Absolute Beginners

1903

Nicholas II

Lenin in London

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

Iskra

Julius Martov

Leon Trotsky

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kks1va6eq0


Ep. 7. Dearest Nicky

1904 – 1905

Nicholas II

War with Japan

Assassination of Interior Minister Vyacheslav von Plehve

Fr. Georgy Gapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw4KiKu-Wgk


Ep. 8. The Appointment

1905

The Duma

Rachkovsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0DrMUKwy4o


Ep. 9. Dress Rehearsal

1908 – 1909

King Edward VII

Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Izvolsky

Bosnia and Herzegovina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nz2Z4Sf4Ls


Ep. 10. Indian Summer of an Emperor

1914

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBVVjf4Jzig


Ep. 11. Tell the King the Sky Is Falling

1914 – 1916

Nicholas II

Grigori Rasputin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPp-muVm8SQ


Ep. 12. The Secret War

1917

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Ludendorff

Hindenburg

Admiral von Holtzendorff

Bethmann-Hollweg

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Alexander Kerensky

The Kaiser allows Lenin to travel through Germany from exile in Switzerland.

The industrialist Helphand

Lenio in St. Petersburg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGmGpGmXlLU


Ep. 13. End Game

1918

German Spring Offensive fails

1918 German Revolution

Kaiser abdicates and goes into exile in the Netherlands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaT8OVLEEkA





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World War One

1918

Episode from the documentary series Epic History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapbLqZUwrA



Wilson's Fourteen Points

8 January 1918


Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unHn82QOJRk


Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points

Khan Academy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMElagkUBmY



The Treaty if Brest-Litovsk

March 3, 1918

Soviet Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany

The treaty ends Russian involvement in the First World War and frees German soldiers in the East to fight in the West in the planned German offensive against France

Lecture by David Stone

National WWI Museum and Memorial

Kansas City, Missouri

March 4, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idVbVOJCGI



Western Front


The German Spring Offensive

21 March 1918

Germany's Last Gamble 1918

Episode 9 of the documentary series World War 1 (50:09)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYqaGKHcCiQ

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8PX9Qmu2cE



The Second Battle of the Marne

15 July - 6 August 1918


The Second Battle of the Marne

Turning Point of the War

Lecture by Michael Nieberg at the US Army War College

2008

Preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSVVsYN00k

Lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aey6nVhZpcU



The Hundred Days Offensive

8 August - 11 November 1918



Battle of Amiens

8 - 12 August 1918



Second Battle of the Somme

August 21 – September 2, 1918



Battles of the Meuse-Argonne

26 September - 11 November 1918



Photo

American doughboy of the U. S. First Infantry

Division in the Meuse-Argon Offensive


 
 
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The Red Baron
 
Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron) (1892- 1918), Prussian fighter pilot, top ace of the Great War, leader of
Germany's elite squadron The Flying Circus.  
 
 
 
The Red Baron
 
Master of the Air
 
Documentary
 

 
Red Baron
 
Episode 6 of 13 of the documentary series The Wings of Death
 

 
The Red Baron
 
Documentary
 

 
Who Killed the Red Baron?
 
2003 NOVA/PBS documentary
 
 
 
Manfred Albrecht, Baron von Richthofen
 
(Breslau, 2 mai 1892 - Vaux-sur-Somme, 21 avril 1918)
 
2000 ans d'histoire / France Inter
 
 
 
 
Following the death of the Red Baron in 1918 the Richthoffen Squadron was commanded by the squadron's second-in-command, Hermann Göring (Goering), and became known as the Göring Squadron.
 

Hermann Göring in his Fokker D.VII

 
1918 Hermann Göring in Jagdgeschwader I
 
Excerpt
 
 
 
HERMANN GOERING
 
FOKKER D.VII
 
 
 
Richthofen Film
 
 
 
 
 
---------------

 
 

 
 
 
The War in Africa
 
 

South Africa

The Great War series 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYYqj-3swU

 

The Battle for Togo

BBC News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAK8wOHfkJ4

 

German East Africa

Colonial Warfare

The Great War series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1KzBDjr-Ys

 

The Lion of Africa

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

The Great War series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irdOYTZj5b4

 

The Jungle Navy

National Geographic documentary (1999)

The British destroy the German ships on Lake Tanganyika

1915 - 1916

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRXwnCvN2Qg

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARyGQdepY1o

 

 

--------------- 

 
 

 
 
 
British India during the Great War
 
The Great War series
 
 
 
 
                  ----------------
 
 
 

 
 
 
China in the Great War
 
 
The Age of Warlords
 
Episode from the series The Great War
 
 
 
 
                  ----------------
 
 

 
 
 
The British Royal House of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha
 
becomes
 
the House of Windsor (1917)
 
King George V and Queen Mary
 
 
King George and Queen Mary
 
The Royals Who Rescued the Monarchy
 
4-part documentary
 
Part 1 of 4:
 
 
Part 2 of 4:
 
 
Part 3 of 4:
 
 
Part 4 of 4:
 
 
 
                         -----------------
 
 
End of the German and Prussian Monarchies (1918)
 
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albrecht von Preußen) (1859 - 1941), last Kaiser of Germany and Prussia (1888 - 1918); abdicated in 1918 and lived the rest of his life in the Netherlands.
 
 
Fall of The House of Hohenzollen
 
 
 
The Real Kaiser Bill   -   Wilhelm II of Germany
 
 
 
Deutscher Kaiser Wilhelm II
 
Doku (1:44:08)
 
 
 
Seine Majestät Wilhelm II
 
Doku
 
Teil Ein: Herrliche Zeiten
 
 
Teil Zwei: Gott Mit Uns
 
 
 
Kaiser Wilhelm
 
Mit Hurra in den Untergang
 
Doku Imperium (4/4)
 
 
 
 
Kaiser Wilhelm II
 
The Last German Emperor
 
A Talk on The Great War
 
 
 

 


The Last Kaiser - Wilhelm II in Exile

Mark Felton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxb_wOlpk_k


Wilhelm II in exile at Doorn

British Movietone News

14 Dec 1931

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmgvhebXrJ4



Wilhelm II of Germany

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbCh4c-8vA&t=52s


 

 

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Spanish Flu Pandemic

 

January 1918  -  December 1920

 

Round the World


 

 

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbYwNOcKqqc&feature=related

 

   


We Heard the Bells

The Influenza of 1918

 

Documentary (56:49)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkGi9FKZzDI 


 

 

The Genesis of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

 

Lecture by Michael Worobey at the University of Arizona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Klc3DPdtk

 

Kiss of the Spanish Lady

Episode from the documentary series Turning Points of History (46:39)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsMHPYow7mY

 

Influenza 1918

Documentary on American Experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS19aapVdeg

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bzuQygEoAw

or

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCFJPDqKPgc

 

Pandemic Influenza

Frank Snowden

Lecture # 20. of the course Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600 (HIST 234)

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Spring 2010

Chapter 1. Influenza
Chapter 2. Transmission
Chapter 3. 1889-90 Pandemic
Chapter 4. Spanish Influenza
Chapter 5. Epidemiology and Responses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7xL3LuQkVo 


Between Two Wars

1918

Part 2. Disease, War and the Lost Generation

Indy Neidell (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE0-WWqhFls 


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Armistice
 

Germany calls for truce

 

 
 
 
signing of the Armistice November 11, 1918.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
November 11  -  11:00  
 
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the war ended
 
 
L'armistice
 
Le 11 novembre 1918
 
 
 
Armistice
 
2008 BBC documentary by David Reynolds
 
Timeline version
 
 
 
The Last Day of World War 1
 
BBC Timewatch documentary
 
 
or
 
 
 
The Last Day of World War I
 
11th Month  11th Day  11th Hour
 
Documentary (45 min.)
 
 
 

The Coach that made History

Documentary about the railroad coach in which the Armistice of 1918 and French surrender of 1940 were signed (26:44).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr4zJS4eb80

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
100th Centenary  - 11-11-2018
 
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Paris
 
 
The Cenotaph, London 
 
 
 
Remembering and Understanding
 
Episode 1 of three-part 2014 BBC documentary series Long Shadow with David Reynolds
 
 
 
Digging Up the Trenches
 
Canadian documentary (2006)
 
Thousands of soldiers lie in Flanders Fields
 
 
 
 

 
The Treaty of Versailles
 
The Palace of Versailles
 
 
The Treaty is signed in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles  
 
 
Signing the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
 
 
The German delegates are presented with the Treaty
 
 

The Victors (left to right): George Clemenceau of France,
Woodrow Wilson of the U. S., and Lloyd George of England
 
 

 

Germany after the Great War

 

Europe before and after the Great War 

 

German possessions in Africa surrendered to British and French after the Great War

Pacific Ocean in 1914
 
 

Pacific Ocean and Oceania 

German possessions in the Pacific Ocean surrendered to the Allies after the Great War   -   to Australia, New Zealand and Japan

 
 
Germany's Colonial Losses in the Great War
 
Animated map
 
 
 
 

 
Make Germany Pay
 
BBC documentary about the Treaty of Versailles and Germany from the Twentieth Century series
 
2 clips
 
Part 1.
 
 
Part 2.
 
 
 
 
L'évolution géopolitique de l'Europe
 
1815  -  1919
 
 
 
 

 
 
Related image
The Big Four of the Council of Four, the representatives of the top four allied powers, at the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles in May 1919. From left to right: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, and U. S. President Woodrow Wilson.
 
 
The Peacemakers
 
BBC documentary about the Treaty of Versailles of 1919
 
 
 
Le traité de Versailles
 
28 juin 1919
 
2000 ans d’histoire sur France Inter
 
Patrice GÉLINET reçoit Bruno CABANES
 
 
 
L'Histoire Par Les Cartes
 
L'Europe entre 1917 et 1923
 
 
 
 

 
 
George Clemenceau
 
 
Georges Clémenceau enregistré en 1922 aux USA
 
 
 
Georges Clemenceau
 
Biographie
 
 
 
Maison de Georges Clemenceau en Vendée face ŕ l'Océan Atlantique (HD)
 
 
 
1918 Le voyage de M. Clemenceau en Alsace
 
 
 
Georges Clémenceau aux Etats-Unis (1922)
 
 
 
Le Pere La Victoire
 
Disque Parlophophone, Paris, mars 1934
 
 
Garde Républicaine sous la direction de Marc DIMET
 
 
 
Clémenceau contre la paix
 
L'ombre d'un doute
 
(deux parties)
 
 
 
 
Portrait de Georges Clemenceau
 
Passé Présent n°113
 
 
 
Clémenceau
 
2000 ans d'histoire
 
 
 
 

 
David Lloyd George
 
 
David Lloyd George giving a Speech on the Middle East
 
 
 
David Lloyd George giving a speech in 1932
 
 
 
Lloyd George's War
 
British Timewatch documentary series
 
 
 
Lloyd George
 
The People's Champion
 
BBC documentary (1:29:13)
 
 
 
Dan Snow on Lloyd George
 
My Great-Great-Grandfather
 
BBC documentary (2016) (58:58)
 
 
 
 
 

Woodrow Wilson
 
1856 - 1924
 
 
 
 
Woodrow Wilson
 
A Talk from the series The Great War
 
 
 
Woodrow Wilson
 
Biographer August Hecksher interviewed by Brian Lamb (1992)
 
 
 
Wilson
 
1944 Hollywood movie (2:23:40)
 
 
 
Woodrow Wilson
 
American Experience documentary series
 
In two clips:
 
1. (02:11:08)
 
 
2. (2:11:08)
 
 
 
 

 
League of Nations
 
 
1919
 
Lost Peace
 
Episode from the documentary series People's Century (53:11)
 
 
Excerpts:
 
 
and
 
 
or
 
 
 
 
                 ---------------
 
 
 
Related image
 
Image result for hang the Kaiser! - poster
 
 
 
The Trial of the Kaiser

Lecture by William Schabas

University of Glascow

20 January 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tc9Zj93qts

 

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The End of the Ottoman Empire
 
 
 
 
The Near East before and after the Great War
 
The Near East in 1914 and 1922
 
 
Ottoman possessions in the Near East were taken by the British and French after the Great War.
 
 

War in Turkey, Occupation, Independence, Republic

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoffgY0brTk

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuisLalMMEo&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=XdnsiYjoqOQ&NR=1

 

 

Kemal Attaturk, Father of Turkey

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeabqpIcsFQ&feature=related

 

 

Incredible Turk

 

Walter Cronkite narrates the story of Mustafa Kemal - Attaturk, Father of the Turks

Episode from the 20th Century documentary series (1959)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9EkewZea3k&feature=related

 

 

 

Modern Istanbul (Constantinople); Turkey moved the capital to Ankara in 1922 and renamed the former capital Istanbul.

 

 

C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E

 

1928 hit song

 

Bix Beiderbeke and the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1928)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKjwqo8GcLE

 

 

Arthur Fields University Six (1928)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9O9_iSaQ48

 

 

Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders (1928)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg6Ejub3KHo

 

 

Adrien Lamy (1928)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Tt4S8YMl8Q

 

 

Κωνσταντινούπολη (1928) Δημητριάδης Τέτος

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2r9nahayo8

 

 

Istanbul (not Constantinople)

 

1953 hit song

 

Trevor Horn Orchestra


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUsOaB5V2c

 

 

Caterina Valente

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPKcSb74q1M

 

 

Renato Carosone

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYqgqG6E1uE

 

 

Trudbol Barbershop Quartet

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acl2PzYqTIo

 

 

The Four Lads (1953)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

 

 

The Flat Cats

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yRXSA0BK1I

 

 

Ska Cubano

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrD1GKeGcgc

 
 
 

 
 
 
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Famous books and movies about the Great War
 
 
Westfront 1918  -  Vier von der Infanterie
 
1930 (1:28:18)
 
 
 
All Quiet on the Western Front
 
by Erich-Maria Remarque (1928)
 
Biography from The Great War series
 
 
1930 Hollywood movie (2 hrs. 8 min. 11 sec.)
 
 
1979 Remake (2 hrs. 8 min. 34 sec.)
 
 
or
 
 
 
A Farewell to Arms
 
by Ernest Hemingway (1929)
 
The Ambulance Drivers
 
Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War
 
 
1932 Hollywood movie with Gary Cooper
 
 
or
 
 
1957 Remake
 
 
 
 
Sergeant York
 
1941 Hollywood movie with Gary Cooper portraying Sergeant Alvin York, one of the most decorated American soliders of the war
 
Excerpt:
 
 
Entire movie:
 
 
 
 
Great War Medley
 
Adam Swanson
 
2016
 
 
 
 
 
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La Grande Illusion

By Jean Renoir

1937

With Jean Gabin

https://archive.org/details/1937lagrandeillusion


Paths of Glory

1957 Hollywood movie

By Stanley Kubrick

With Kirk Douglas

https://archive.org/details/pathsofglory1957_201908



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The Communist Revolution in Russia in October 1917 ended the Russian monarchy and the Romanov dynasty.
 
In March 1918, Lenin, head of the government, made peace with the Germans and ended the war on Germany's eastern front.
 
In a long civil war that followed the revolution, Russian Czarist/Imperial troops ("White Russians") fought the Soviet (Red) Army in an attempt to retake Russia.
 
The defeat of Germany and the Armistice of November 1918 ended the Great War in western Europe.
 
Soviet leaders in Moscow   -    Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin   -   ordered the Red Army to retake lands conquered by the Germans and to push east through the three Baltic States, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany, and south through the Ukraine, to support local communist revolutions and establish local communist governments. 
 
The western allies sent forces to Russia to back Imperial forces against the Red Army.
 
 
The American Expeditionary Forces in Siberia
 
Episode from the documentary series The Big Picture
 
 
or
 
 
 
Film footage of the Siberian expedition with narration
 
 
 
The Poles stopped the Red Army in Warsaw in 1920, ending Russian plans to take over eastern and central Europe by force.
 
The Poles and the Soviets took large slices from the Ukraine before the Soviets incorporated it into the USSR in 1922.
 
By 1923, the Red Army had prevailed in Russia, the Imperial forces were defeated and the western powers withdrew their troops from Russia.
 
 
Polish-Soviet War
 
February 1919 – March 1921
 
 
Battle of Warsaw 1920
 
2011 Polish movie (in 3-D)
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Successor States of Eastern Europe

 

Lecture # 20 by John Merriman from the course European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202), Yale U., Fall 2008

 

1. The Wilsonian Illusion and War Guilt: The Aftermath of the First World War

2. Revisionism in Italy and Germany

3. Revisionism in Eastern Europe: The Former Austro-Hungarian Empire

 

4. Ethnic Tensions in Interwar States

5. The Peasant Majority: Agricultural Depression and the Rise of Fascism

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHme-oW-rA&feature=relmfu 

 

 

Between the Wars

 

The Rise of the Nations

 

Indy Neidell

 

Part 1 of 2

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Aj9mXivv8

 

 

 

 

 
World War One
 
All five parts of the documentary series Epic History
 
 
 
 
Lecture series
 
 
 

World War 1  -  The Great War

 

15 of 36 lectures from a course by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius (The Great Courses)

 

1. The Century's Initial Catastrophe

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheGStyBYRo

 

2. Europe in 1914

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG19R6gWtJE

3. Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C73WURS7h1Q

4. Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ut1fQvlMkI

5. The August Madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LHbtZZheQw

6. The Failed Gambles  -  War Plans Break Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAOYJLrptg
 
7. The Western Front Experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRPpxWfssqI

8. Life and Death in the Trenches

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPw-r46Rh2c 

 

9. The Great Battles of Attrition

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3odzA4F67Fc

 

10. The Eastern Front Experience

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7QpeuiGgYo 


11. The Southern Fronts

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZRBbzWyEsk


12. War Aims and Occupations

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdR-dt0tElg
 
13. Soldiers as Victims

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQJXtxCBGeE 

 

20. Propaganda War

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts4ewrNvmwo

 

24. Armenian Massacres - Tipping into Genocide

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR5TavoxlyU

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Xe3ev42RA

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvyIKYV5Yso

 

 

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Three documentary series:

 

 

The Great War


26-episode 1964 British TV series with Michael Redgrave

 

 

The First World War

 

Ten-part 2003 British TV series

 

Start here for all ten episodes, one after the other automatically, beginning with ep. 1:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY3Sb8xiQ_c&index=1&list=PLC91A368FC30FFF95



World War I 

 

1963 American documentary series with Robert Ryan

 

 

 

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The Long Shadow

Three-part TV series

2003

David Reynolds


Part 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPYxS5h4x34&t=8s


Armistice

The Endgame of WW1

David Reynolds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUuHRbtz6dE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUuHRbtz6dE&t=510s


Part 3.

The Long Shadow

The Legacy Of Nationalism Since The Great War

David Reynolds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TI3f9LD7E&t=1179s



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The Last Voyage of the Lusitania

Bob Ballard

1994

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmQjEIHfDCk





















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