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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Doughboy Center: The Sinking of the Tuscania

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a detailed account of the sinking of the Tuscania by a German U-Boat. Includes images and firsthand accounts of the attack.
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Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: Armory

For Students 9th - 10th
Trenches on the Web offers a set of charts on World War I Armory, which includes the categories of artillery, gas, guns, naval, tanks, trenches, troops, U-boats, and Zeppelins. Be sure to click on "View Set" for each category to see...
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Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: Big Guns of the Great War

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Trenches on the Web gives an overview of the different types of artillery used in World War I. Provides several thumbnail images of rail guns, howitzers and other forms of artillery, which can be enlarged by clicking on them.
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Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: Wwi Timeline: 1879 1914: The Deadly Alliances

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline of the alliances in Europe prior to World War I.
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Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: British Trench Warfare 1917 1918

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of that excellent site "Trenches on the Web," this page gives an excerpt from "Notes for Infantry Officers on Trench Warfare." Also includes trench diagrams.
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Worldwar1.com: Trenches on the Web: Photo Archive: The Ypres Salient, 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos to click on to see images of World War I trenches: "An Australian trench," "British infantry knee deep in mud," "An abandoned German trench at Messines Ridge".
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Doughboy Center: Forgotten Victory: Part I

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth site on the battle for Blanc Mont Ridge. It contains great pictures and a detailed description of the events that occurred during the battle.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Doughboy Center: Forgotten Victory: Part Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a sequel to Part I. It also contains excellent information about the end of the battle for Blanc Mont Rouge and where the Marines directed their attention from there.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Doughboy Center: Sad Tale of the Bonus Marchers

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the Bonus March, when World War I veterans, whose war benefit payments could not be redeemed due to the Great Depression, marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 and were forcibly disbanded by the U.S. Army and President Hoover.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Asiago 1916 Two Views

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information on Austria's first great offensive on the Italian Front campaign during WWI. The Battle of Asiago is described both by an English correspondent with the Italian Army and an official German observer with the Austrians.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Touched by War: The Four Rocconi Brothers

For Students 9th - 10th
Article tells the tale of the four Rocconi Brothers, what they did during the war, and where and how they died.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Italian Political and Military Mobilization in the Great War

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides a discussion of the role played by the state in organizing the war effort both in terms of marshaling the troops to the front as well as mobilizing the society and the economy.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: An Aspiring Pilot Aviator in the Italian Air Force

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a selection from the memoirs of Lt. Camillo Viglino, a pilot in the Italian Air Force.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: Cesare Battisti: Italian Patriot, Hero, Martyr

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of Cesare Battisti, an Italian patriot and politician of Austrian citizenship, who became a prominent Irredentist at the start of the First World War. Although condemned as a traitor in Austria, in Italy he is considered a...
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Asiago

For Students 9th - 10th
Excerpt from the book Asiago by Francis Mackay describes the evening of the Battle of Asiago which led to the death of Captain Edward Harold Brittain.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: The Death of Sepp Innerkofler

For Students 9th - 10th
Article relates the story of Sepp Innerkofler, a Tyrolean mountaineer who died defending his homeland in July 1915 during World War I.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: The Battle of Ortigara June 1917

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed description of the June 1917 Battle of Ortigara that took place between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies for possession of Mount Ortigara.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Avalanche!

For Students 9th - 10th
This article takes a look at the unique killer of the Italian Front, avalanches.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Virgilio's Caporetto Odyssey

For Students 9th - 10th
Author recounts the life of his father, Virgilio Benedetti while summarizing the way the events of Italy in World War I shaped his father's outlook.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Italian Front Casualties

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides statistics on the casualties of the battles of the Italian Front in World War I.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Italian Front: Weapons, Equipment, Uniforms

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at the weapons, equipment, and uniforms used by the Italian forces in World War I. Detailed descriptions provided.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: From the Memoirs of Lt. Camillo Viglino

For Students 9th - 10th
This excerpt from the memoir of Lieutenant Camillo Viglino explains the significance of Monte Grappa to the Italian Front during World War I. Strategies of the the Austro-German troops and the Italian troops are discussed as they...
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Caporetto a Fresh Look

For Students 9th - 10th
Article takes a look at the 1917 Battle of Caporetto in which the Italian Army suffered one of the most stunning defeats of World War I.
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Worldwar1.com: Great War Society: La Grande Guerra: Italian Reparti D'assalto: The Arditi

For Students 9th - 10th
This historical website includes information about the Italian Reparti d'assalto (Assault Units) of the First World War, the most elite force in the Italian Army.