Armistice Day: The War to End All Wars?

Armistice Day commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiegne, France, that ended the hostilities on the Western Front in Europe in World War I. Symbolically, the armistice took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning, on the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, and was thought to celebrate the end of a "war to end all wars" by people of that era.

Ninety years later, we celebrate Armistice Day as Veterans Day in the U.S., honoring the sacrifice of veterans of all the wars since that time.

Even after the Armistice, some hostilities continued in other regions of the world, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire. World War I involved 35 countries, and lasted five years -- from 1914 to 1918. The United States only fought from 1917 to 1918, but our presence was significant to ending the war.

This date is also a national holiday in many of the allied nations who participated in World War I. This day in Poland is called Polish Independence Day, in France as Armistice Day, and after World War II, it was changed to Veterans Day in the United States, and to Remembrance Day in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day is an official holiday in France.

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ProQuest has created a BookCart learning activity to honor Veterans Day: "World War I--Causes and Consequences." Teachers or librarians can copy and adapt this BookCart model and hundreds of other ProQuest models from our Carts collection (learn how.)

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Many authors achieved fame in writing poetry and prose about their experiences in World War I. Assign students to learn more about a famous author who wrote about World War I. Student should select (or you can assign) a different author from those highlighted in ProQuest Learning: Literature.

Students should write a report of at least 150 words that cites at least three resources on the author of their choice. Students should address the following essential questions for critical thinking:

• What is this author's most famous work on the war and what do you like about it?
• Why was this author motivated to write about World War I?
• What were the topics highlighted in most of their works on the war?
• How did the author's work make a difference in people's attitude on the war, either during or after?
• What other types of themes beside war did this author address with his/her works?

Pathfinder: Type "World War I authors in the Quick Search box" > Click More under Authors

Use our custom ProQuest models for written or PowerPoint reports written and PowerPoint-style reports.

Assign students a report of at least 150 words, or a PowerPoint of at least seven slides, that cites at least three resources. Students should choose one aspect of the War: how it started, etc.

Pathfinder: Click the History icon > Study Units > Wars and Conflicts > The First World War, 1914--1918 > then select from one of the following topics:

• The origins of the First World War
• America during the First World War
• The Western Front and life in the trenches
• Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy

Address each topic using these samples of essential questions for critical thinking (you can assign others):

• What really started WWI and why?
• What was different about this war from any other war in the past?
• How was this war different than present wars?
• How did countries try to prevent WWI and what international reforms were tried to prevent future wars?

Use our custom ProQuest models for written or PowerPoint reports written and PowerPoint-style reports.

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