The For King and Empire website is a must for teachers of the First World War. Soldier day-by-by accounts of the battles at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele are provided along with authentic war art postcards and songs of the era available...

Kids learn about the trench warfare of World War I. A way of fighting along the western front where long defensive trenches were dug for hundreds of miles as protection for the soldiers.

Anne Frank's writing in her diary became one of the most recognized accounts of life for a Jewish family in Europe during World War II.

This biography of Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the flag raisers in the iconic picture of at Iwo Jima, relates his actions in World War II, and the sad circumstances of his death.

This site provides a chart with photographs of tanks used in World War I along with descriptions.

A biography on one of the most successful and notorious of WWI flying Aces. Quotes are included here.

A night of socializing with friends takes a violent turn in the short story "The World at the Door" by O. Henry. Read the full text on this site.

A lesson plan (including primary documents) on how you as an advisor to the British War Cabinet would try to counter the threat of the V-1 "Buzz Bombs".

This extensive learning module examines the role of large-scale industrialization, urbanization, and mass migrations in creating new demands on government and social organizations to design reforms, and looks at the global and domestic...