Slides for September 9 and 11
Workers and Women at the turn of the century
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Production at AEG in Berlin around the turn of the century
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Potsdamer Platz in 1903 - one of the busiest urban centers in Europe
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"Mietskasernen" or "rental barracks" in Berlin's
Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood
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Protesters march to the Winter Palace during the revolution in Russia
in 1905
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Russian women working in Moscow
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Women during week 22 of the Crimmitschau strike fighting for a ten hour
day.
See this exhibition at the Deutsches
Historisches Museum for more pictures.
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French, British and German fertility rates in the 19th century
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Population growth rates in Europe 1850-1945
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Florence Nightingale
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Emily Davidson killed by the king's horse at the Epson Derby (1903)
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The Great War
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Europe and alliances in 1914 at the outbreak of World War One
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German and French plans in the event of war.
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Adolf Hitler celebrates the German declaration of war in 1914 in Munich.
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French propaganda depicting Romanian-German treaty as the Germans imposing
demands on a helpless woman.
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The extent of the German advance in August 1914.
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The stablilized front and the emergence of trench warfare
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A British crew in gas masks mans a machine gun.
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British troops go "over the top" during the Battle of the Somme
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A German "Big Bertha" gun mounted on a rail car.
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The unexpeded Russian advance into Prussia disrupted German strategy.
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German dominance against the Russians in the East.
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Irish soldiers in a rear trench resting.
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A French woman prepares shells for the war
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The final German offenses of 1918
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The German collapse in late 1918.
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All images are from Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise noted and are considered
to be in the public domain.
The graph on fertility rates in France, Germany, and England and Wales is
from: Joshua Cole, The Power of Large Numbers (Ithaca and London:
Cornell University Press, 2000), 182. (scanned by page author)
The photo of the Crimmitschau strike is from the Deutsches
Historisches Museum.
The photo of Russian women peasant workers is from the University
of Oregon.
The photo of the Mietskasernen is by the author.
The photo of the AEG Works is from the German
Historical Institute.
The graph on population growth rates in Europe is by Franz
Rothenbacher, "The European Population: A Historical Data Handbook for
21 European Countries from 1850-1945"
Maps of the war are from the map
collection at the United States Military Academy and are government documents
in the public domain.
