​                                                                A Study of
                          The Great War
​& World War 2

The Technologies

The story of the innovations that influenced the course of history

World War I

• U-Boats in World War I
• The Development and Deployment of the SPAD S.XIII
• The History of Mounting a Gun to an Aircraft During World War I
• The 75 mm Field Gun

​World War II

• Widespread Penicillin Use in World War 2
• The Electromechanical Workings of the Enigma Machine
• ​A Comparison of the Supermarine Spitfire to the Messerschmitt Bf 109 during the Battle of Britain
• The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt - Development, Variants, and Service
• ​Solutions to Key Technical Problems in the Manhattan Project
• A Chronological Study of American Fleet Aircraft Carrier Technological Advancements from 1922-1945​

The People

Individuals who set themselves apart in both world wars on the home front and the battlefield

World War I

• The YWCA - - Don't Forget the Lassies
• Ferdinand Foch - - Ferdinand Foch and His Role in World War One
• J.R.R. Tolkien - - The Great War's Influence on Tolkien's Writing
• Winston Churchill - - Churchill's Memoirs of the Second Boer War: Story and Credibility
• Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke - - Boelcke's Dicta and World War I Air Combat​
• Mildred Aldrich - - Personal Letters from a Civilian in the Mids of the Beginning of World War I: Propaganda or a Realistic Representation of Events

World War II

• Creighton Abrams -- A Great Fighting Colonel of the Second World War
• Chiang Kai-Shek -- China’s Great Leader?​
• Juan Pujol García
  • The Infamous Double-Crosser of World War II
  • The Life of Juan Pujol Garcia and His Involvement as a Double Agent for the United Kingdom 

Reviews

Books: ​Publications that document various events of the war and the technologies that were developed and used

World War I

• A Review of Gas! Gas! Quick, Boys!​

​World War II

• A Review of World War II Tactical Camouflage Techniques
• A Review of  M4 (76mm) Sherman Medium Tank 1943-65
• A Critical Book Review on The Gurkha Rifles​​

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Movies: Documentaries and films that depict events of the wars both factually and theatrically

• WWI: Gallipoli

​War Games: Analyses of simulations of how the war could have gone

• WWI: ​Richthofen’s War
• WWI: Historical Accuracy and Summary of Richthofen's War

​Art and Museums​

• A Review of the National Museums of the American Armed Services World War I Galleries

Analyses

​Detailed examinations of primary sources, politics, and strategy

World War I

• ​Analyzing the First Issue of The Wipers Times: Stress-Diffusing Satire of the Front Lines
• Connections in Wartime: Postcards from the German Front
• The Historical Roots of Italian Fascism: Outlining the Political and Philosophical Movements that Influence Fascism and its Founders
• The Evolution of Strategic Bombing During World War I
• The Many Facets of the Indian Army: World War I
• The Triumph of Fake News: How Le Queux's Fiction Led to the Founding of MI5 and MI6
• U.S. Army Intelligence Testing During World War I

World War II

• Analysis and Summary of the Four Major Attempts to Disrupt Germany’s Supply of Heavy Water

Analysis of World War II Newsmaps

• December 11, 1941 
• January 3, 1944
• March 20, 1944
• June 15, 1944

World War II Battles

• The Battle of Imphal: The Why and How
• The Battle of France
  • Analysis of The Battle of France using The Art Of War by Sun Tzu and The Nine Principles of War
  • An Analysis of Sun Tzu’s Art of War and The Nine Principles of War in Relation to the 1940 Invasion of France 

ABOUT US

We are a group of high-school students from Ideaventions Academy for Mathematics and Science in Reston, Virginia. We write papers as part of History class and have been doing so for the past two years, as we studied both wars in great detail. Our class is lecture-based, with artifacts, war games, and maps relating to the topic of the week

Image of the Enigma: ​By Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-2007-0705-502 / Walther / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5348686

Copyright of the papers and essays belong to the author.