Supplemental Materials

To End All Wars: World War I and the League of Nations Debate

To End All Wars: World War I and the League of Nations Debate explores the transformation of U.S. foreign policy during World War I and the emergence of Wilson's vision for a new world order. Students take part in the conference at Versailles to decide the future of Europe and in the Senate debate to determine the U.S. role in the postwar world.

Online Resources from the Choices Program

Graphic organizers are available online as a pdf.

Redrawing Europe—Versailles Mapping Activity (powerpoint)
Used with a lesson plan in Wilson's Vision and the League of Nations Debate.

Political and Ethnolinguistic Maps of Europe - Using Google Earth
This Google Earth file has overlays of the ethnolinguistic and political maps of Europe in 1914 and the political map of Europe in 1919. This map can be used in conjunction with the Day Two lesson in To End All Wars: World War I and the League of Nations Debate. Teachers may also want to use these maps to show the changing political boundaries after the Paris Peace Conference. Download Instructions here.

To open this file: Right click (or hold down the control key and click) on the link above and download or save the file to the desktop. Before opening the downloaded file, make sure you have Google Earth open. If you do not have Google Earth, you can download it for free at earth.google.com

Multi-Media

Presidential Speeches (audio to accompany Day Five lesson)

Franklin Roosevelt

Richard Nixon

Bill Clinton

Web Links

Vintage Media
A collection of songs, speeches, and skits from World War I

Oxford University
A site for literature from World War I

PBS
Website associated with its program on World War I

PBS
Website associated with its American Experience program on President Wilson

Northwestern University
A collection of the League of Nations documents

Books

Creel, George. How We Advertised America: The First Telling of the Amazing Story of the Committee on Public Information That Carried the Gospel of Americanism to Every Corner of the Globe. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1920). 466 pages.

Cooper, John Milton. Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). 433 pages.

Cooper, John Milton and Charles E. Neu, eds. The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. (Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1991). 356 pages.

Ferrell, Robert H. Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921. (New York: Harper and Row, 1985). 346 pages.

Keene, Jennifer D. The United States and the First World War. (New York: Longman, 2000). 142 pages.

Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980). 369 pages.

Knock, Thomas. To End All Wars. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). 276 pages.

Lodge, Henry Cabot. The Senate and the League of Nations. (New York: Scribner, 1925). 424 pages.

MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. (New York: Random House, 2001). 494 pages.

McNamara, Robert S. and James G. Blight. Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century. (New York: Public Affairs, 2003). 276 pages.

Noble, George Bernard. Policies and Opinions at Paris, 1919: Wilsonian Diplomacy, The Versailles Peace, and French Public Opinion. (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1935). 465 pages.

Todd, Lewis Paul. Wartime Relations of the Federal Government and the Public Schools 1917-1918. (New York, Arno Press, 1971 [c.1945]). 240 pages.

NOTE: This is a selected list of resources focused on the topic of the curriculum unit, To End All Wars: World War I and the League of Nations Debate. Additional resources will be added to this site as they become available.