The Cherwell History Page
Research carried out by Craig Thomas Tumpa Rahman and Simon Baskett (June 1996)
This page was constructed using HTML Notepad and GIF Constructor Set Comments etc. please to Head of History, Cherwell School
Trip to the Trenches of Flanders (1997)
CONTENTS
  • BBC History Resources - some useful Links
    - including a link to this page: the ONLY school page mentioned!
  • The First World War: Causes and Course
  • Versailles Peace Treaty
  • The League of Nations
  • The Russian Revolution
  • Stalin and the USSR
  • The Second World War: Causes and Course
  • The Atomic Bomb
  • The Cold War
  • The Changing role of Women in the 20th. Century
  • Irish History
  • German History
  • History of Medicine
  • History for A'Level Students
  • Return to Cherwell Home Page

    • FIRST WORLD WAR
  • THE FIRST WORLD WAR DOCUMENT ARCHIVE
    A collection of primary documents from the First World War
    - Conventions and Treaties - Documents ( pre - 1914 ) - Memoirs, personal reminiscences, memorials ( diary of Robert Lindsay Mackay, British and German rations 1914 - 1916, The Great Zeppelin Raid 1916 )
    TRENCH WARFARE
  • THE TRENCHES ON THE WEB
    The Internet Historyof the Great War
    Cherwell's Trip to the Trenches of Flanders (1997)
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    THE VERSAILLES SETTLEMENT

  • TREATY OF VERSAILLES ( PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENT )
    The complete 1919 Treaty with 440 articles, maps, illustrations and a chronology of Woodrow Wilson's fight for a League of Nations.
    - Article 159 ( The reduction of Germany's military force ) - Article 231 ( The War Guilt Clause ) - Article 235 ( Reparations )
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    THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
    LEAGUE OF NATIONS - PRIMARY SOURCE ( CARTOONS )

  • 1. "Touch not a single bough" ( Woodrow Wilson and the Senate ) - Literary Digest - 8/9/19
  • 2. "Muzzled" - League of Nations and the 'dog' of War - Literary Digest - 9/13/19
  • 3. "Rainbow" - The League and the World - Literary Digest - 9/13/19
  • 4. "Blowing Bubbles" - Woodrow Wilson and the League - Literary Digest
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    THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

  • The Russian Revolution
    - Quotations from the Russian Revolution - The Russian Revolution in dates ( chronology )
  • TSAR NICHOLAS II
    - general information
  • MARX AND ENGELS ARCHIVE
  • LENIN
    - general information
  • MARXISM HOME PAGE
    - literature of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky
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  • JOSEPH STALIN
    - career and background
  • SOVIET ARCHIVES EXHIBIT
    - primary sources and information
  • ALEXANDER PALACE TIME MACHINE
    - How the Romanovs used to live.
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    THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  • CAUSES OF World War 2
    - Appeasement : a possible cause of World War 2 ?
  • - Events of World War 2 - Grolier Home Page.
  • - World War 2. "The greatest Battle in history"
  • - World War 2. "Fifty-four years ago" - Archives
  • - Adolf Hitler (general information)
  • - Sketch of 379 squadron - US army corps (Cartoon Journals of a fighter pilot's life)
  • - Information on history of World War 2, Nazi and Fascist history. Detailed historical accounts of the inter - war period.
    PROPAGANDA
  • - World War 2 propaganda posters
    D-DAY
  • - Details of D-Day
    - Operation Overlord - Planning and execution of invasion -Equipment used - The toll (casualties) - links to other D-Day sources (documents, pictures and videos)
    CONCENTRATION CAMPS
  • - Information on Auschwitz concentration camp
  • - Auschwitz photographs (contemporary)
    WAR IN THE PACIFIC
  • - The Battle of Midway
  • - The Battle of Midway (more information)
    INTERNMENT DURING WORLD WAR 2 - ( The imprisonment of nationalities deemed a risk to national security )
  • - Internment of Japanese in America
    MISCELLANEOUS SECTION
  • - African-American troops in World War 2
  • - U-Boat Homepage
  • - A comparison of WWI and World War 2
  • - World War 2 Photo Gallery
  • - The Warsaw Uprising
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    THE ATOMIC BOMB

  • - Information about the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima.
  • - Arguments against dropping the atomic bomb
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    THE COLD WAR

  • -Post war estrangement
  • -Cold War 'hot links'
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    THE CHANGING ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    - Detailed notes of women's history (in America) early attitude to women, the weaker sex, legal status, women in work and politics.

  • - Multi-media exhibits in women's history (America) - upstate New York and the Women's Rights movement, women get the vote.
  • - Arguments given against suffrage
    WOMEN IN HISTORY
  • - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • - Susan B Anthony
    WOMEN DURING WORLD WAR 2
  • THE WORLD WARS - a comparison of the roles of women in the two World Wars.
  • The army (nurse) corps
  • Women's Army Corps
  • Women's Land Army
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    Irish History

  • - Irish History on the Web
    A site on the History of Ireland with links to many sites on Irish history
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    German History

  • - German History and Politics on the Web
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    The History of Medicine

  • - Medicine Matrix
  • - History of Medicine
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    HISTORY FOR A'LEVEL STUDENTS
    -- selection of primary sources on all periods of history and links to other historical sites. Lecture notes on a wide range of topics
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