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This three-volume reference is appropriate for middle school students and above. Volume I, War and Response 1914-1916, covers the causes of the conflict, the reactions around the world to its outbreak, the course of the fighting in the first years of fighting, and the United States' move toward declaring war in April 1917. Volume II, Victory and Defeat 1917-1918, charts the United States' contribution to the war and the fighting between 1917 and 1918, as well as the war's aftermath and impact around the globe during the 1920s and beyond. The third volume, Home Fronts and Technologies of War, looks at the impact of the war on the lives of ordinary civilians and also studies the military innovations, tactics, and weapons that contributed to the ferocity of the conflict. The reference is extensively illustrated with color and bandw illustrations and maps and includes boxed sections that describe key figures and their roles, provide eyewitness accounts, and summarize political events. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Aimed at an audience from sixth grade up, this set is divided into three volumes: War and Response, 1914-1916; Victory and Defeat, 1917-1918; and Home Fronts/Technologies of War. The volumes are organized into from 15 to 17 chapters covering major topics, and the information is presented in a narrative style rather than in discrete entries. Chapter titles include "The Western Front, 1914-1915," "Neutrals and Supporters," "The War at Sea, 1917," "Germany's Last Attacks," "France at War," and "Armor and Transport." The indexes give good access to more specific subjects. Each of the three volumes includes illustrations on the majority of pages, and there are many maps and charts to complement the text. The writing style and vocabulary are accessible to the intended audience. Volume 3 concludes with a glossary; a topical list of books and Web sites for additional research; a time line; indexes to personalities, places, and battles and campaigns; and a general set index. Sources with similar subject coverage, such as The European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia(Garland, 1996) and The United States in the First World War: An Encyclopedia(Garland, 1995), offer the user short entries arranged alphabetically but are more research oriented. The visual appeal of History of World War Iwill certainly make it attractive to younger readers, especially in libraries that do not already own The Grolier Library of World War I (1997). Recommended for school and public libraries. RBB.
Table of Contents
Volume 1 War and Response, 1914-1916 | |
Map Key | p. 1 |
Maps and Diagrams | p. 2 |
Introduction | p. 4 |
The World before the War | p. 8 |
The new German Empire | |
European militarism | |
The Balkans | |
Turkey and Russia | |
The Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
Imperialism | |
Focus points | |
German Unification | |
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck | |
The Dreyfus Affair | |
Irredentism | |
The United States before the War | p. 28 |
Settling the continent | |
The Native American experience | |
Industrialization | |
Industrial unrest | |
A fairer society | |
Justifying expansionism | |
American naval power | |
Overseas expansion | |
The Spanish-American War | |
A Pacific and Latin American power | |
Focus points | |
The African American Experience | |
Henry Ford | |
The Great White Fleet | |
The Panama Canal | |
Woodrow Wilson | |
The Move to War | p. 50 |
Crises, but no war | |
The Balkan question | |
The German Navy Laws | |
For and against war | |
Focus points | |
Emperor Wilhelm II | |
M. Edith Durham | |
Alfred von Tirpitz | |
Dreadnought is Launched | |
War Literature | |
Who Was to Blame? | |
The July Crisis, 1914 | p. 70 |
The response to Sarajevo | |
Austria-Hungary's fatal ultimatum | |
The drift to war | |
Declarations of war | |
Focus points | |
The Black Hand | |
Jean Jaures | |
Global War Declarations | |
The World Response | p. 86 |
Turkey and the Middle East | |
The Balkan perspective | |
Italy and war | |
The Far East | |
Focus points | |
Portugal | |
Latin America and the War | |
Lansing-Ishii Agreement | |
The Central Powers' Forces | p. 100 |
Universal conscription | |
The pressure for preemptive warfare | |
The Austro-Hungarian Army | |
Turkey's military strength | |
The Anglo-German naval contest | |
Central Powers in the Mediterranean | |
Focus points | |
Gustav Krupp | |
The German General Staff | |
Helmuth von Moltke | |
Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf | |
The Allied Forces | p. 116 |
Russian military leadership | |
The French Army | |
All-out attack | |
Neutral Belgium's forces | |
The British Army | |
The Balkan allies | |
Allied naval forces | |
Allied air forces | |
Focus points | |
Grand Duke Nicholas | |
Mobilization | |
Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener | |
Admiral John Fisher | |
The Western Front, 1914-1915 | p. 132 |
The Schlieffen Plan amended | |
France's Plan XVII | |
Opening moves against France | |
French attacks thwarted | |
The final battles of 1914 | |
A brief British success | |
Stalemate on the western front | |
Focus points | |
Marshal Joseph Joffre | |
Atrocities and Propaganda | |
Sergeant J. F. Bell | |
Christmas Truce | |
J. Halcott Glover | |
U.S. Food Aid | |
General Erich von Falkenhayn | |
The Eastern Front, 1914-1916 | p. 152 |
Opening moves in the Balkans | |
The war in East Prussia | |
Pincer attack on Poland | |
Turmoil in the Balkans | |
Russia's Brusilov Offensive | |
A year of contrasting fortunes | |
The scandal of Rasputin | |
Germany's war leaders | |
Wide-ranging powers | |
Focus points | |
East Versus West | |
Octavian Taslauanu | |
Czar Nicholas II | |
The War at Sea, 1914-1916 | p. 170 |
War in the Far East | |
Action in the Falklands | |
Naval blockades | |
Skirmishes in the North Sea | |
Germany's submarine blockade | |
Unrestricted warfare | |
Attacks on Turkey | |
Germany relies on its U-boats | |
German failure at Jutland | |
Focus points | |
Blockading Germany | |
Franz von Hipper | |
Admiral David Beatty | |
Captain Otto Weddigen | |
George Cracknell | |
The Wider War, 1914-1916 | p. 188 |
Ottoman Turkey goes to war | |
Fighting for the Suez Canal | |
Invasion of Gallipoli | |
Attempts to break the stalemate | |
The Mesopotamian campaign | |
War in the Caucasus | |
Italy joins the Allies | |
Russian successes against the Turks | |
The Trentino counteroffensive | |
War in colonial Africa | |
Focus points | |
Breslau and Goeben | |
Mustafa Kemal | |
C. Allanson | |
Armenian Genocide | |
The Western Front, 1916 | p. 206 |
Renewed pressure at Verdun | |
Offensive on the Somme | |
The advance commences | |
A battle of attrition | |
French counterattacks at Verdun | |
Focus points | |
Falkenhayn and Verdun | |
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain | |
Major Sylvain-Eugene Raynal | |
Life in the trenches | |
Friedrich Steinbrecher | |
Germany's peace offer | |
America and the Growing Conflict, 1914-1916 | p. 226 |
Apostles of neutrality | |
War and the U.S. people | |
U.S. neutrality under threat | |
Strengthening the U.S. armed forces | |
Neutrality in the balance | |
Focus points | |
Proclaiming U.S. Neutrality | |
U.S. Anti-Militarism | |
Escadrille Americaine | |
Colonel Edward House | |
The Lusitania | |
The Sussex Sinking | |
The Mexican Expedition | |
Neutrals and Supporters | p. 248 |
Unrest in the empires | |
Allied-sponsored revolts | |
Subversion and subterfuge | |
Worldwide neutrals and war | |
Focus points | |
The Easter Rising | |
King Feisal I | |
Japan's 21 Demands | |
The United States Moves to War | p. 260 |
The U.S. political climate | |
The decision for war | |
Focus points | |
"Peace without Victory" | |
Secretary of State Robert Lansing | |
Arthur Zimmermann | |
Wilson Goes to War | |
The U.S. Military Commitment | p. 280 |
Creating a modern U.S. Army | |
Forging the Expeditionary Force | |
An independent fighting force | |
Preparing for combat | |
The need for officers | |
Overcoming logistical difficulties | |
The U.S. Navy goes to war | |
Into battle on the western front | |
Focus points | |
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker | |
Native American Involvement | |
African American Recruitment | |
Sherwood Eddy | |
General of the Armies John Pershing | |
The Search for Peace | p. 300 |
The Catholic Church and war | |
Wilson's "peace note" | |
Austro-Hungarian peace moves | |
Germany's peace resolution | |
The foundations of peace | |
Focus points | |
James Gerard | |
Wilson's Fourteen Points | |
Bibliography | p. 312 |
Index | p. 313 |
Volume 2 Victory and Defeat, 1917-1918 | |
The Western Front, 1917 | p. 326 |
The cost of the western front | |
Planning the Allied attacks | |
The British attack at Arras | |
Nivelle's disastrous advance | |
British efforts in Flanders | |
The first tank offensive | |
Focus points | |
Field Marshal Douglas Haig | |
The Siegfried Line | |
Mine Warfare | |
F. R. J. Jefford | |
Allied Supreme War Council | |
Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau | |
The Eastern Front, 1917 | p. 348 |
Russia's last offensive | |
Russia's final collapse | |
War in the Balkans | |
Romania collapses | |
Focus points | |
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | |
Dissent in the Ranks | |
Germany's Storm Troopers | |
Poland and Independence | |
The Wider War, 1917 | p. 366 |
The fight for Palestine | |
The advance on Jerusalem | |
The struggle for Mesopotamia | |
War in East Africa | |
The Italian front | |
Focus points | |
The Balfour Declaration | |
The Arab Revolt | |
Erwin Rommel | |
The War at Sea, 1917 | p. 384 |
The Allied convoy system | |
The battle against the submarine | |
German surface actions | |
The Mediterranean theater | |
Baltic Operations | |
Japan's naval contribution | |
Focus points | |
Captain Adolf von Spiegel | |
Admiral William Sims | |
The Convoy System | |
Otranto Barrage | |
Vice Admiral Miklos Horthy | |
Germany's Last Attacks | p. 402 |
Germany's great gamble | |
German forces and tactics | |
Marshal Ferdinand Foch | |
The Emperor's Battle | |
The Lys Offensive | |
Focus points | |
Bruchmuller's Timetable | |
Marshal Ferdinand Foch | |
Lieutenant Ernst Junger | |
Field Marshal Herbert Plumer | |
The First Tank Battle | |
U.S. Baptism of Fire | p. 418 |
Third Battle of the Aisne | |
The Battle of Belleau Wood | |
Focus points | |
Preparing the AEF for War | |
General Robert Lee Bullard | |
The Hello Girls | |
Equipping the AEF | |
Edwin L. James | |
U.S. War Artists | |
The Allies Fight Back | p. 436 |
Second Battle of the Marne | |
U.S. troops defend the Marne | |
Aisne-Marne Offensive | |
Foch's dynamic leadership | |
Battle of Amiens | |
The Allies take control | |
Focus points | |
Captain Jesse Woolridge | |
Stars and Stripes | |
The Black Day of the German Army | |
The Final U.S. Offensives | p. 452 |
The St. Mihiel attack | |
Meuse-Argonne Offensive | |
The AEF's final advance | |
Focus points | |
General Hunter Liggett | |
U.S. Women at War | |
The Lost Battalion | |
Sergeant Alvin York | |
Europe's Other Theaters | p. 470 |
Turmoil on the eastern front | |
Germany and the Ukraine | |
Nationalism and the Baltic states | |
Allied victory in Italy | |
Final moves in the Balkans | |
Focus points | |
Leon Trotsky | |
Allied Interventions in Russia | |
U.S. Forces in Italy | |
The Wider War, 1918 | p. 487 |
Allied plans in Palestine | |
Final battles in the Middle East | |
The African campaign concludes | |
Central and South America | |
The Far East | |
Focus points | |
Field Marshal Edmund Allenby | |
T. E. Lawrence | |
Dunsterforce | |
The War at Sea, 1918 | p. 502 |
The convoy battles | |
Transporting U.S. forces to Europe | |
War in the Mediterranean | |
The German Navy surrenders | |
Focus points | |
The Northern Barrage | |
The Tuscania Sinking | |
The Kiel Mutiny | |
Lieutenant Francis Hunter | |
The Collapse of Germany | p. 514 |
Breaking the Hindenburg Line | |
Germany seeks an armistice | |
Ending the war | |
Focus points | |
Deneys Rietz | |
Liberating Belgium | |
Compiegne and the Armistice | |
Rosa Luxemburg | |
The Human Cost of War | |
Europe after the Armistice | p. 530 |
The aims of the Allies | |
The peace terms | |
Problems with the peace | |
Focus points | |
The League to Enforce Peace | |
Winston Churchill | |
John Maynard Keynes | |
The League of Nations | |
Peace and the Allies | p. 550 |
France: reconstruction and recovery | |
The Third Republic | |
The French search for security | |
The French colonies | |
British economic and social problems | |
Britain and Ireland | |
Italy: the road to fascism | |
Japan becomes a world power | |
Focus points | |
Aristide Briand | |
The Locarno Treaty | |
The Maginot Line | |
Ireland: Partition and Independence | |
The Defeated Powers | p. 570 |
Germany's political turmoil | |
Chaos in Bavaria | |
The "enemy within" | |
The Weimar Republic | |
German economic problems | |
Austria-Hungary: an empire shattered | |
Turkey: the end of the Ottoman Empire | |
Russia in turmoil | |
The Russian Civil War | |
Communism in Russia | |
The new Russian economy | |
Focus points | |
The Dawes Plan | |
Adolf Hitler | |
The Munich Putsch | |
The Battle of Warsaw | |
The U.S. Legacy | p. 590 |
U.S. power in a global context | |
Wilson and the League of Nations | |
Immigration, patriotism, and xenophobia | |
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover | |
Prosperity and the automobile | |
Hollywood, and the Jazz Age | |
Focus points | |
Carrie Chapman Catt | |
The Red Scare | |
Carl Sandburg | |
Henry Cabot Lodge | |
The Nineteenth Amendment | |
The Eighteenth Amendment | |
The Wider Impact | p. 612 |
India and Britain | |
The Middle East | |
Revolution in China | |
Focus points | |
Mohandas Gandhi | |
Zionism | |
Palestine | |
Mao Zedong | |
Bibliography | p. 632 |
Index | p. 633 |
Volume 3 Home Fronts/Technologies of War | |
The German Home Front | p. 646 |
1914: A nation united | |
The military assumes control | |
The war economy | |
The food crisis | |
The young and the old | |
Morale and propaganda | |
The Hindenburg Program | |
Manpower and money | |
The last years | |
Focus points: | |
Friedrich Ebert | |
Karl Liebknecht | |
Walther Rathenau and the KRA | |
Turnip Winter | |
Unrest in the Reichstag | |
Evelyn, Princess Blucher | |
France at War | p. 666 |
1914: Hopes of swift victory | |
Political unity and division | |
France's war economy | |
The media and propaganda | |
Morale after 1914 | |
Fears of revolution | |
Focus points: | |
France's Union Sacree | |
E. L. Spears | |
Albert Thomas | |
Joseph Caillaux | |
Paris in Wartime | |
Germany's Paris Gun | |
The British Home Front | p. 686 |
The war begins | |
British industry at war | |
The power of organized labor | |
Government and the economy | |
Daily life | |
Entertainment and information | |
Rationing | |
Focus points: | |
Helen Thomas | |
Defence of the Realm Act | |
Conscripts and Objectors | |
The War Cabinet | |
David Lloyd George | |
Britain under Fire | |
Home Fronts Elsewhere | p. 706 |
Shortages and unrest in Russia | |
The Austro-Hungarian Empire | |
Internal tensions | |
The state-run economy | |
The Italian people divided | |
The grim realities of war | |
Focus points: | |
Stephen Graham | |
Russia's Provisional Government | |
Count Istvan Tisza | |
Vittorio Orlando | |
The U.S. Home Front | p. 718 |
Federal agencies | |
Bosses and workers | |
The transportation crisis | |
Paying for the war | |
U.S. agriculture | |
Americans "toe the line" | |
Controlling "the threat within" | |
Focus points: | |
Bernard Baruch | |
The Wobblies | |
African Americans and War Work | |
Herbert Hoover | |
The Committee on Public Information | |
Wartime Prohibition | |
Eugene V. Debs | |
Women and the War | p. 738 |
Women in uniform | |
Women at work | |
Germany's women | |
French women at war | |
The British experience | |
Women in the United States | |
Women's working conditions | |
The bereaved | |
The impact of war service | |
Focus points: | |
Mabel Stobart | |
Women--For or against the War? | |
Edith Cavell | |
Mata Hari | |
U.S. Army Nurse Corps | |
Suffragettes | |
Wartime Arts and the Media | p. 756 |
Culture and war | |
Authors and war fever | |
Propaganda efforts | |
The war novel | |
U.S. war fiction | |
Wartime poetry | |
Painters and illustrators | |
Cinemas and movies | |
Focus points: | |
Pacifism and the Arts | |
Wartime Censorship | |
Henri Barbusse | |
Women War Poets | |
Hollywood and the War | |
The New Peace | p. 774 |
The returning soldiers | |
The impact on families | |
Unemployment and recession | |
The future for women | |
Changing attitudes | |
Focus points: | |
Spanish Flu Pandemic | |
Vera Brittain | |
Gold Star Mothers | |
The Bonus Marchers | |
Remembering the War | p. 790 |
Expressing national grief | |
Memorials and monuments | |
Portraying the war in the arts | |
The Great War and modern memory | |
Focus points: | |
Ernest Hemingway | |
Eric Maria Remarque | |
Abel Gance's J'Accuse | |
Veterans' Associations | |
Tactics and Weapons on Land | p. 808 |
Trench warfare | |
Fighting beyond the trenches | |
Weapons of trench warfare | |
Focus points: | |
Cavalry at War | |
Sniping | |
Werner Liebert | |
Antitank Equipment | |
Artillery at War | p. 828 |
Trench mortars | |
Gas warfare | |
Artillery tactics | |
Focus points: | |
The French "75" | |
Lieutenant Henri Desagneaux | |
Railroads and Artillery | |
Armor and Transport | p. 848 |
Genesis of the tank | |
The tank's role | |
Antitank techniques | |
Mechanized transport | |
Focus points: | |
Tank Tactics at Cambrai | |
Plan 1919 | |
Ernst Kabisch | |
Support Services | p. 868 |
Photoreconnaissance | |
Logistical support | |
Medical services | |
Focus points: | |
Carrier Pigeons | |
U.S. Engineer Corps | |
Carl Brannen | |
Naval Warfare | p. 882 |
Types of warships | |
Mine warfare | |
Naval aviation | |
Anti-submarine warfare | |
Focus points: | |
Commander George von Hase | |
Naval African Expedition | |
Captain Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere | |
The Cuxhaven Raid | |
War in the Air | p. 902 |
The dawn of the fighter | |
The first aces | |
The airship menace | |
Strategic bombers | |
Antiaircraft weapons | |
Focus points: | |
Boelcke's Dicta | |
United States Army Air Force | |
Manfred von Richthofen | |
Stanley W. Coxon | |
The L59 Expedition | |
Bibliography | p. 922 |
Glossary | p. 923 |
For Further Research | p. 925 |
Time Line of World War I | p. 928 |
Index of Personalities | p. 938 |
Index of Places | p. 940 |
Index of Battles and Campaigns | p. 943 |
General Index | p. 946 |