http://historyexplorer.si.edu/rss?key=resourcesSmithsonian's History Explorer Resources Related To "West Point Graduates in the Great War"http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=831http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=831<p>This website looks at the lives of selected West Point graduates who attended the Academy between 1802 and 1918. Students will also learn about the U.S. Army's major functions in 19th and early 20th century America: building the nation's infrastructure of roads, bridges, canals, and railroads; exploring its territories from the Mississippi to the Pacific; and fighting its wars-the role of the West Pointers in engineering, exploration, and war.</p>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:29:15 GMThttp://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1025http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1025<p>Americans reluctantly entered Europe's "Great War" and tipped the balance to Allied victory. The United States emerged from the war a significant, but reluctant, world power. Students will learn about&nbsp;American involvement in World War I and&nbsp;how American industrial and military might broke the stalemate that had existed for three bloody years on Europe's Western Front in this section of the online exhibition, <em>The Price of Freedom: Americans at War</em>. A non-flash version of this site is available: <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/printable/section.asp?id=8">World War I</a>.</p>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:35:28 GMT