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 * **General History Sites:**



[|Conflict History]

 [|International World History Project]

 [|Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

 [|Interactive Timeline: America on the Sidelines]

 [|Macro History and World Report]

 [|World History Archives]

 [|Web Chron Project]

 [|Hardcore History Archives]

 [|Books Should Be Free: History]

 [|World History Compass: Military- WW1]

 [|BBC History: World War One]

 [|Google History Links]

 [|Timelines.com]



Iraq War Poets
Brian Turner [|NPR interview and poet reading two poems]

[|NY Times site with links to his essays]

[|Turner reads his poetry on YouTube]

Korean War Writers
[|Rolando Hinojosa]

Spanish Civil War Writers
[|John Cornford]

[|Charles Donnelly]

[|Thomas Wintringham]

Vietnam War Poetry
[|Poets and poems]

[|Yusef Komunyakaa]

Biography: Yusef Komunyakaa

[|Poetry and Vietnam]

[|Politics of War Poetry]

[|Michael Casey interview]

[|Bruce Weigl]

[|Bruce Weigl]

[|Poetry Archive: Vietnam]

[|W.D. Ehrhart]

|| **World War I:**

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** Causes of World War I ** [|Treaty of London, 1839]

[|Timeline: 1839-1914; The Long Fuse]

[|Timeline: The July Crisis, 1914]

[|Timeline: June 28th, 1914; Assassination in Sarajevo]

[|The Great War: 1914-1918]

[|War and Neutral Rights]

[|The Deadly Alliances]

[|A Leap Into War]

[|The Black Hand]

[|The Willy-Nicky Telegrams]

[|War and Neutral Rights]

[|The July Crisis and War Aims]

[|machine gun]

[|Dreadnaught Battleships]

[|Franco-Prussian War] || ==World War II/Holocaust==

[|World Memory Project: Finding Ancestors Lost in Holocaust]

__**Primary Documents**__

[|The Avalon Project: World War II: Documents]

[|Hitler's Statements on Foreign Policy: 1933-39 (extracts)]

[|The International Military Tribunal (Nuremburg War Trials)]

[|The German Surrender Documents of WWII]

[|Documents Related to WWII]

[|Assumption of Power by Doenitz]

[|The Avalon Project: Nazi-Soviet Relations 1939-1941]

[|Night and Fog Decree (Jewish Virtual Library)]

[|Munich Pact]

[|Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty]

[|German-Japanese Agreement]

[|Tripartite Pact]

[|Summary of the Three-Power Pact Between Germany, Italy and Japan]

[|WWII Sounds and Pictures Page]

[|Radio Propaganda]

[|http://www.earthstation1.com/warpostr.html]

**World War I Poets**


 * [|First World War Digital Poetry Archive]**


 * [|Emory University Archive: WW1 Poetry]**


 * [|Rupert Brooke]**


 * [|More Rupert Brooke]**


 * [|John McCrae]**


 * [|Wilfred Owen]**


 * [|Charles Sorley]**


 * [|Siegfried Sassoon]**

**World War II Poets**

 * [|Alun Lewis]**


 * [|War Poets Association]**


 * [|UK Channel 4 Website: Lewis]**


 * [|Keith Douglas]**


 * [|Karl Shapiro]**


 * [|Shapiro: Nebraska Center for Writers]**


 * [|Shapiro Bio: Poem Hunter]**


 * [|Shapiro: Biographical Essay]** ||