World War I for kids : a history with 21 activities

334 Pages·2014·8.05 MB·English

by  Rasmussen

Copyright © 2014 by R. Kent Rasmussen All rights reserved
First edition
Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 814 North Franklin Street Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN 978-1-61374-556-4
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rasmussen, R. Kent.
World War I for kids : a history with 21 activities / R. Kent Rasmussen. — First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience: Ages 9 and up.
ISBN 978-1-61374-556-4 (trade paper) 1. World War, 1914-1918—Juvenile literature. 2. World War,
1914-1918—Study and teaching—Activity programs. 3. Creative activities and seat work—Juvenile
literature. I. Title.
D522.7R37 2014
940.4—dc23
2013037624
Cover and interior design: Monica Baziuk Cover images: Library of Congress: Uncle Sam, mounted solier,
Wilhelm II, Women! propaganda poster, and Luisitania poster. National Archives and Records: Children
refugess and men leaving Camp Dix. National Geographic magazine (1917, v. 31, p. 379): Men in trenches.
iStockphoto: Biplane © breckeni; German helmet © jsolie. Shutterstock: poppy flower © Chris Howey
Author’s collection: “Over There” sheet music.
Interior illustrations: Jim Spence Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1
To Bailey, Jackson, Zane, Miranda, Cosette, Damon,
Griffin, and Maggie: may you and your generation
never see another war.

CONTENTS
TIME LINE
INTRODUCTION
1 The Road to War
Make a Military Recruiting Poster
2 Stalemate on the Western Front
Write a Poem About the War
3 Trench Warfare
Make a Periscope
Cook Maconochie Stew
Press a Flower to Send Home from the Front
4 Other Fronts
Make a World War I Scoreboard
5 The Weapons of War
Three-Minute Egg Camouflage Challenge
Make a Model Gas Mask
6 The War at Sea
7 The War in the Air
Make a Parachute
8 Animals Go to War
Train a Dog to Carry Messages
Write a Letter Home from the Western Front
9 Enter the United States
Search for a Convoy
Learn the Lyrics of the War’s Most Popular Song
Coin a Slogan
10 The Home Fronts
Write a Letter from Home to a Soldier in Europe
How Much Sugar Is in Your Food?
Bake War Bread
11 Ending the Fighting
Think Like a Wartime Censor
Read a World War I-Era Adventure Novel
12 Beyond the Armistice
Visit a World War I Memorial
Design a Commemorative Postage Stamp
RESOURCES
Key Personalities of World War I
Websites for Further Exploration
Notable Feature Films About World War I
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
TIME LINE
1914
June 28 Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Serbia
July 6 Germany agrees to support Austria-Hungary against Serbia
July 28 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia; Russia begins to mobilize for war
August 1-4 Germany declares war on Russia, France, and Belgium
August 2-4 Germany invades Poland, Luxembourg, France, and Belgium; Great
Britain declares war on Germany
August 7 British troops begin landing in France; French troops invade Alsace
August 10-13 France and Britain declare war on Austria-Hungary
August 19 United States formally declares its neutrality
August 21 Battle of the Ardennes
August 23 Japan declares war on Germany
August 26-29 Germans stop Russian advance into East Prussia at Battle of Tannenberg
August 28 British Royal Navy attacks German positions in Battle of Heligoland, also
known as the Battle of the Bight
September 5 Britain, France, and Russia sign agreement not to seek separate peace
September 6-11 Allies stop German advance on Paris in First Battle of the Marne; trench
warfare will soon begin
November 1 German naval squadron defeats British squadron off Chilean coast in the
Battle of Coronel
Battle of Coronel
November 5-6 Britain and France declare war on Turkey
November 11 German drive to the North Sea halted in First Battle of Ypres
December 8 German squadron defeated at Falkland Islands
December 25 British and German troops fraternize during a Christmas truce near Ypres
in Belgium
1915
February 1 Germany announces beginning of submarine warfare
April-May International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands, seeks ways
to end the war
April 25-January 26, Allied campaign at Gallipoli
1916
April 22 Germans introduce chlorine gas at Second Battle of Ypres
May 7 British passenger liner Lusitania is sunk by German submarine
May 23-24 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
August 21 Italy declares war on Turkey
September 4-5 Tsar Nicholas II assumes command of all Russian forces
September 18 Germany stops submarine warfare
1916
February 21-December Battle of Verdun
18
March 2 Germany resumes submarine warfare
April 23 Easter Rebellion in Ireland
May 17 British Parliament enacts military conscription
May 31 Naval Battle of Jutland
First Battle of the Somme
July-November First Battle of the Somme
August 26 Italy declares war on Germany
August 31 Germany again stops submarine warfare
September 6 Central Powers form unitary supreme command
September 15 Britain introduces tanks at the Somme
October 15 Germany resumes submarine warfare
November 7 Wilson is re-elected US president on an antiwar platform
November 21 Emperor Francis Joseph dies
1917
January 9 Germany again resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
March 11-15 Russian Revolution begins after Tsar Nicholas abdicates
April 6 United States declares war on Germany; other Western Hemisphere
nations follow
May 15 Pétain assumes overall command of French army
May 26 First US troops arrive in France
June 6 Sailors in German navy begin to revolt
July-November Battle of Passchendale
November 8 Lenin and Trotsky form Bolshevik government in Russia
December British troops occupy Jerusalem
December 22-March 3, Russia negotiates peace settlement with Central Powers
1918
1918
January 8 Wilson presents “Fourteen Points” to US Congress
July 8 Tsar Nicholas II and his family are murdered
November 7-8 German revolution begins in Munich
November 9 German emperor Wilhelm II abdicates
November 11 Armistice ends fighting in Europe
November 14 German forces in East Africa surrender, ending combat