Pathfinders
The Treaty of Versailles
These research suggestions and hyperlinks to websites will help you with
your research on The Treaty of Versailles. This was the Treaty which was signed at the end of World War 1. The treaty outlined the conditions imposed on defeated Germany by the Allies.
Subject headings, keywords.
These are good words to use when searching on the library catalogue, or Google
Treaty of Versailles, World War One, Germany, German history, Allies, Central powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire) President Woodrow Wilson (USA) , Lloyd George (Britain) Clemenceau (France), reparations, casualties
Dewey Numbers
Two books in the library with very useful chapters:
909.82 The twentieth Century ( chapters: The price of peace and League of nations) and
909.82 The fragile peace 1919-1939 (first chapter)
Reference:
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Encarta
On-line databases
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'
The following websites have information on the effects of WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/treaty_of_versailles.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWversailles.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/versailles_01.shtml
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/year9links/versailles.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/outcomes3_01.shtml
http://www.johndclare.net/peace_treaties6.htm
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar/g5/
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar/g5/cs2/default.htm
Darfield High School Library Team