Lydia M Spruhan, Archduke Francis Ferdinand is Assassinated, http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/EastEurope/FranzFerdinand.html, April 21, 1997
This website contains a step by step explanation of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand. I think that it is more helpful than the book because it gives more detail about the event. From this article I learned more about the assassination that I had known before. Ferdinand deflected the first bomb with his arm, causing it to bounce off the back of the car and explode behind them, demolishing the next car and seriously injuring several aides. After Princip fired the two pistol shots into the car killing both the archduke and his wife, he tried committing suicide but was captured before succeeding. After the assassination the Austrian foreign minister got the word of the German chancellor that Austria had the unconditional support of Germany. I thought that this sight was very helpful if you were interested in looking farther into the event than the book did. I found it very interesting and useful. The site also had a link to a timeline that showed the years leading up to the assassination, the years after all the way through the war, and the aftermath.
Unknown Author, World War One History, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/, 28-02-2002
This next website that I used is a BBC history on WWI. It covers pretty much everything that happened in the war and has many different links to pages on different battles and has links to pages about war heroes. One of the links is on the first shot of World War I and I found it very interesting. The first shots of the war occurred in a small Belgian village in August 1914. Another link that I found interesting was about the battle of Verdun. This battle took place in early 1916, between German and French forces on the Western Front in the city of Verdun. The battle continued until June when the German forces began to push back the French but then allies sent troops to help the French. The Germans with over 400,000 casualties were forced to retreat. This site was very helpful it had great pictures and it also had videos of reenactments of important battles.
Michael Duffy, The First World War, http://www.firstworldwar.com/, 2000
To find this site I used Google, just like all the other website searches that I do. This site was put together really well, and it is very organized. When you look at the homepage you can see everything that the website contains and it has all the links on the homepage. This website has a lot of good links such as, how it began, weapons of war, the western front today, and many more helpful links. There was a page on the website that was on the causes of the war and how it affected the war and life in those areas today and I thought that was very interesting. This website was helpful because it had information that we had already learned and information that we hadn�t.