World War I : “It is good and sweet to fight for your country”
What were the long run and short run causes of World War I?
Why is World War I considered to be a “Total War”?
What is the lasting legacy of World War I and The Versailles Treaty?
2/22
Modern Europe
revisited: Mass
politics and mass
optimism
783-786
1. Explain in what way the late 19th and early 20th centuries were becoming an era of
“mass politics”
811-813
Just read to understand political changes at the turn of the century: how were things
changing for women and how was liberalism tested in England and Italy?
2/23
Modern Europe:
the growth
disorder and
irrationality.
Long and Short run
causes of WWI
Intro Versailles
Round Table
797-803 Just Read to understand the demographic changes and changes in gender roles
2/24
-25
2/26
Intro Versailles
Round Table
Time to work on
projects
2/29
Total War and the
homefront
PP 825 and pp. 826
2. How do the European conflicts over Imperialism lead to tensions in Europe? How
do conflicts in the Balkans lead to tensions in Europe
PP 827 Just read
Understand the idea of Militarism and why it is considered a long run cause of WWI?
PP 828-830
3. How did the assassination of the Austrian Archduke lead to the outbreak
of WWI?
PP 835-838
4. Summarize/explain the plan for WWI and why this war would be different than
those fought in the past.
PP 839-840
5. Create a timeline of the major battles/events of the war from the outbreak through
1916.
PP 840-842 JUST READ (take notes if you wish)
What was life like on the battlefield for a European soldier?
3/1
3/23
Impacts of
War/Global War
Treaty of Versailles
Round Table
3/4
The changing art of
the modern era
3/7
Russian Revolution
3/8
Wrap up Russian
Revolution
3/910
Test: MC and LEQ
Prepare for Versailles Round Table Simulation
PP 842-845
6. Summarize/explain how the war came home and impacted domestic politics, the
workplace and the average daily life of a European
PP 845-846 and 849-851
7. Explain the reason for growing protest movements against the war and how that
helped bring about an end to the war
PP 851-856
8. Take notes as you read and focus on the major outcomes of the peace making
process with special focus on the following ideas: The Weimar Republic, Treaty of
Versailles, Fourteen Points, The League of Nations, Economic Consequences of the
Peace, Changes to the Map
PP 846-849
9. Understand the phases of the Russian Revolution: The end of the Czar, The
Provisional Government, The Bolshevik Revolution and the Civil War.
pp. 865-66
Just Read to understand the economic and social aspects of Lenin’s communist
government.
Prepare for MC and LEQ test
Modern Europe: Ch. 24
“new woman”
Oscar Wilde
Modern Art
Edvard Munch
Pablo Picasso
Impressionists
Mass politics
working class political power
women’s suffrage
Henrik Ibsen
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Causes of War – Chapter 25
Alliance System
Alfred von Schlieffen
Lusitania
Balkan Wars (1911)
Anglo/German Naval Pact
Morocco Crisis
Archduke Ferdinand/ Black Hand
Imperialism
Wilhelm II
Algeciras 1906
Alsasce-Loraine
Militarism
Mobilization for War
War, Homefront and Peace
Eastern Front
Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
14 Points
Lloyd George
Western Front
Battle of Verdun
Propaganda
Versailles Treaty
Homefront
Trenches/Stalemate
Schlieffen Plan
New Technologies
Orlando/ Italy
Russian Revolution
Lenin
Rasputin
Trotsky
Provisional Govt.
Russian Civil War
Kerensky
Treaty of Brest Livosk
Red Army
White Army
Alexander Kollontai