Activities/Agenda : Overview: Unit Objectives/Standards and Essential Questions;

1. Activate our prior knowledge about WWI using a turning point review, Gain an understanding of WWI as a total war, world war, and modern war and be able to explain these terms on an exit ticket after Day 1 • Activities/Agenda: • Overview: Unit Objectives/Standards and Essential Questions; • Pre-Test: What do you know about WWI? (turning point review); • Notes and exit ticket: total war, modern war, world war; • Map Work (map test scheduled for later date)

2. Focus Activity “The War to end all wars” Brainstorm: What do you know about World War I?

3. Content Statements for Unit 3 Part I: World War I Causes and Effects (Setting the Stage for Unit 3 Part II: Interwar Years) • Advances in technology, communication and transportation improved lives, but also had negative consequences. • The causes of World War I included militarism, imperialism, nationalism, and alliances. • Content Statements for Unit 3 Part II: Interwar Years • The consequences of World War I and the worldwide depression set the stage for the Russian Revolution, the rise of totalitarianism, aggressive Axis expansion and the policy of appeasement which in turn led to World War II. • Oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide during World War I and the Holocaust, the state-sponsored mass murder of Jews and other groups, during World War I.

4. What you will be able to do… • What were the causes, events, and effects of World War I? (Chapter 13) • What were the results of the political upheavals that swept through Russia, China, and India before, during, and after World War I? (Chapter 14) • What were the economic, political, social, and scientific changes that brought the world to the brink of a second world war? (Chapter 15)

5. All of the following explain the outbreak of WWI EXCEPT • Nationalism • Militarism • Imperialism • socialism

6. What was the “spark” that led to the start of WWI? • The Russian Revolution • The sinking of the Lusitania • The Zimmerman Telegram • The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

7. The practice of stronger nations extending their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories is called • Militarism • Nationalism • Internationalism • imperialism

8. The German official who tried to lure Mexico into joining Germany in a war against the US was… • Kaiser Wilhelm II • Arthur Zimmerman • Karl von Hindenburg • Manfred von Richthofen

9. Who killed Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo? • Woodrow Wilson • Kaiser Wilhelm II • Arthur Zimmerman • Gavrilo Princip

10. What was the name of the British passenger ship shot down by a German U-boat that sank with Americans on board? • Titanic • Lusitania • USS Maine • U571

11. What was the name of the secret society that planned the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand • The White Ghost • The KKK • The Black Hand • The Red Demon

12. Tanks, poison gas, and other technology were used for the first time in WWI are evidence of which underlying cause of the war? • Militarism • Alliances • Nationalism • imperialism

13. What was the area between the trenches of WWI called? • No Man’s Land • Hardhat Zone • Do Not Enter • Gopher Field

14. The War started off as a conflict between • Serbia and Austria-Hungary • The US and Germany • Russia and Germany • France and Germany

15. Which of these events happened during WWI? • Russian Revolution • The Great Depression • Sinking of the Titanic • September 11th

16. Besides injury and deaths due to fighting, what other problem led to 50 million deaths during that time? • AIDS • Flu epidemic • Chicken pox • tuberculosis

17. What did US troops held do in WWI? • Defeat the French at the Battle of the Marne • Rebuild destroyed bridges in England • Boost morale of the Allied soldiers • Fight with the Russians against Germany

18. What officially ended WWI? • 14 points • Treaty of Paris • Treaty of Versailles • League of Nations

19. Germany had to agree to all but what stipulations in the Treaty of Versailles? • Sell Prussia to Great Britain • Give up its colonies • Lose most of its military • Pay reparations for war damages

20. The Great War • The first “world war” • Over 30 countries declare war; more involved indirectly • The first “total war” • Nearly all aspects of life affected for all citizens—not just soldiers and members of government • Governments take over economy; use propaganda • The first “modern war” • Use of new technology such as airplanes, zeppelins, machine guns, armored tanks, poison gas; trench warfare on larger scale.

21. The First “World War” Participant Countries in World War I – Allies in Green, Central Powers in Orange, Neutral Countries in Gray

22. The First “Total War” Examples of war-time propaganda from Great Britain and Australia

23. The First “Modern War” Tank from the Western Front German Zeppelin Soldiers wearing gas masks in the trenches at Ypres

24. First Modern War Trench warfare in Flanders German U-boat

25. The First “Modern War” Ruins of Ypres (as seen from the air)

26. Mustard gas, flamethrower, planes • Total war • Modern War • World War

27. Uncle Sam wants you for the US army! • Total war • Modern War • World War

28. Alliances trigged a… • Total War • Modern War • World War

29. All good US teens! Run home and grow a victory garden. Then, send your pennies away to be smelted • Total War • Modern War • World War