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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
The Brutal Realities of World War I (en español)
Gain insight into the death and destruction of World War I with firsthand accounts from former soldiers. This reading is in Spanish.
![Painting title Gassed by John Singer Sargent. Shows World War I soldiers with bandaged eyes being led by other soldiers. Many dead and injured soldiers laying at the base of the painting.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=fe25bc16&itok=_3yOA5E-)
Building Support on the Home Front
Explore the role of propaganda in World War I, and take a closer look at one of the most successful British propaganda campaigns featuring nurse Edith Cavell.
![A British propaganda poster depicting the execution of Edith Cavell in 1915. Cavell was a British nurse working in Belgium during the German invasion. The Germans accused her of espionage.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image06_Medium_res.jpg?h=c4842d71&itok=VMxrc5Pm)
Commemorating the War
View and analyze John Singer Sargent’s memorial to World War I, the painting Gassed.
![Painting title Gassed by John Singer Sargent. Shows World War I soldiers with bandaged eyes being led by other soldiers. Many dead and injured soldiers laying at the base of the painting.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image05_Medium_res.jpg?h=fe25bc16&itok=_3yOA5E-)
Disillusion on the Battlefield
Get insight into the experiences of soldiers in World War I through poetry and literature excerpts.
![A Still image from the 1915 propaganda film The Battle of Somme. A World War I soldier carries a body on his back.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/The_Battle_of_the_Somme_film_image2.jpg?h=8e8edc7c&itok=lXwsRCvH)
Disillusion on the Battlefield (en español)
Get insight into the experiences of soldiers in World War I through poetry and literature excerpts. This resource is in Spanish.
![A Still image from the 1915 propaganda film The Battle of Somme. A World War I soldier carries a body on his back.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/The_Battle_of_the_Somme_film_image2.jpg?h=8e8edc7c&itok=lXwsRCvH)
Genocide under the Cover of War
Consider how the Armenian Genocide was made possible by the staggering brutality of World War I.
![Fleeing from death. An Armenian mother on the heights of the Taurus Mountains.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/1915_mother_and_child_in_the_desert_Medium_res.jpg?h=fcb26060&itok=ExhdlGru)
Hatred on the Home Front
Read about the violent response in one British neighborhood to Germany’s sinking of the Lusitania during World War I.
![RMS Lusitania coming into port, possibly in New York, 1907-13](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/RMS_Lusitania_coming_into_port%2C_possibly_in_New_York%2C_1907-13-crop.jpg?h=5a175e64&itok=jSGIPxNS)
A Last-Ditch Effort to Prevent a War
Read a telegram exchange between Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Tsar Nicholas of Russia in which the leaders attempt to prevent World War I.
![Photo of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II posing in uniform.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=7101d55d&itok=pRrU0J5d)
Reporter: Psychic Numbing
Nicholas Kristof describes psychic numbing: caring less as a number of victims increases.
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The League of Nations
Analyze the goals and responsibilities of the League of Nations written into the Treaty of Versailles after World War I.
![Salle de la Reformation. The official opening of the League of Nations.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_1920_HalloftheReformation_FH2173576.jpeg?h=58406872&itok=-iYvygUH)
Negotiating Peace
Learn about the concessions that the Treaty of Versailles required from Germany after its defeat in World War I.
![German delegates talk in May 1919 during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in France.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2022_GermanDelegatesattheSigningoftheTreatyofVersailles_FH2173867.jpeg?h=c8a745b3&itok=ngFT6CP1)