Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question: What were the social, political, and economic effects of WWI?
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Warm Up
WWI learning stations
Work on notebook. Glue/Tape in pages
Wrap Up: Due Today
CNN Student News
Take three notes
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question:What were the social,political, and economic effects of WWI?
Timeline Review Number 1-6 and place the
following events in chronological order:
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Warm Up
COTD: Ethiopia
Middle College Presentation
WWI learning stations
Wrap Up
The United States Joins WWI
Germany Surrenders
The Zimmerman Telegram is
intercepted
Lenin overthrows the Czar, Russia
withdraws from WWI
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Austria Declares war on Serbia
Answers to warm up
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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Austria Declares war on Serbia
The Zimmerman Telegram in intercepted
The United States Joins WWI
Lenin overthrows Czar, Russia withdraws
from the war
6. Germany Surrenders
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question:What were the social,political, and economic effects of WWI?
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4.
Warm Up
NO COTD, Learning Rounds
WWI learning stations
Wrap Up
Based on yesterday’s lesson answer the
following with your table group and in
your warm up box:
• Explain what the Armenian Genocide
was and why it happened.
• Compare and contrast it to what you
know about the Holocaust.
In your teams you will be analyzing the sources provided.
 Team captains will help guide group, keep members on topic
 Teams will receive a group score based on participation and
collaboration
 Stamps will be given to group members to those who contribute
well. These count as bonus points.
1. Read the provided questions before looking at the sources
2. As groups determine the most accurate response to the questions
3. You will have 7-8, minutes at each station so pace yourself
accordingly
4. Answer in complete sentences
5. Packet due at the end of the period.( Tomorrow)
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
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Warm Up Week #3
COTD: Egypt
Armenian Genocide Class Notes (p 19)
Write ?/Summary
Pass Back Work/Organize Notebook
Wrap Up
Do Questions and Summary for
Cornell Notes
Wear work out gear tomorrow
Take notes on the video clip about
Auschwitz. What are your
thoughts about what happened
there? Do you think something
like this could happen again?
Explain.
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
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Warm Up Week #3
COTD: Djibouti
Update TOC
“The World Wars” Continue Notes
Wrap Up
Trench warfare compare/contrast.
Next slide,
Answer questions in complete
sentences.
Warm Up
Monday
answer in
complete
sentences.
CCSS:
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
1. Warm Up
2. NO COTD
3. Trench Warfare Experience: Due at end
of period.
4. Wrap Up
Trench warfare compare/contrast.
Watching the video clip:
1. Describe in detail what life in
the trenches was like.
2. Explain how Industrialization
affected the war.
3. Be prepared to discuss with
one of your trench mates.
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
1. Warm Up: Week 2.Write Martin Luther
King Day in Monday . Write one reason
why we honor him.
2. COTD: Congo
3. Workbook Page 93
4. Cornell Notes: The World Wars Page 12
CLASS NOTES ONLY! 
5. Wrap Up
Illustrated Vocabulary will be
checked tomorrow in class.
Next slide.
Answer in complete
sentences. Be ready to
discuss with your neighbor.
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First
World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
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2.
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5.
Warm Up
NO COTD
Remind 101
Check Ch 11 Illust Vocabluary
Cornell Notes: The World Wars Page 12
CLASS NOTES ONLY! 
6. Wrap Up
Why and how did WWI
begin?
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Review
Archduke Assassinated =
Alliance System Chain Reaction
on Serbia
2. Russia mobilizes
troops
3. Germany declares
war on Russia
4. Germany declares
war on France
5. Germany invades
Belgium
6. Britain declares war
on Germany
1. Austria declares war
Review
Essential Question: Why and how did World War 1 begin in 1914?
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking
without acting.
1. Warm Up Week #3
2. The Battle of Greeley
River
3. Wrap Up
• Please Check
your grades!
• I will RECOLLECT
Illust. Vocab on
Friday
• Current Event #3
Due Friday.
• Test on Ch 11
Friday
John Green: WWI
Crash Course! YAY!
Write down three
fascinating facts from
Mr.Green that you
DIDN’T already know
about WW1.
 The date is July 1916. You have been fighting in “The Great War” for 2
years. You have been lucky enough to still see another day.
 Your best friends have all been killed, along with, a younger brother, and
a cousin. You still love your country and refuse to give up. You
commanders assure you that victory is neast
 You have been assigned to build a new trench and open up the Battle of
the Somme. Good luck, and I hope you live to fight again tomorrow.
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You will have two minutes to prepare your munitions.
If you get hit by a “bullet” you go to the graveyard.
Listen to your commander, (ME) or you will die.
The country with the most troops alive at the end wins the Battle
of the Somme and will go down in History as the bravest unit
ever.
Ticket out the door
What was difficult about being a
soldier during the Battle of
Greeley River?
How did this compare to what
soldiers in WWI went through.
5 complete sentences.
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
Words of Wisdom: We become the combined average of the 5 people we hang around the most. This
reference group can determine up to 95% of our success. –Jim Rohn
1. Warm Up: Week 2
2. Cornell Notes 11-2 A
New Kind of War
(page 10 in NB)
3. Wrap Up: Due
Tomorrow
• Current Event #2
Due Friday.
• Be good for Ms.
Ramirez.
On Next slide.
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
Most of the problems in life are because of two reasons: we act without thinking or we keep thinking
without acting.
1. Warm Up Week #3
2. Finish Cornell Notes
Slides 43-51
3. Finish Chapter 11
Illustrated
Vocabulary. Use
terms on slide #6
4. Wrap Up
• Current Event #
• 3 Due Friday.
• Thank you for
being good. I will
reward you
tomorrow.
• Test Friday
On next slide.
Warm Up Monday 9/27
Describe in detail what you see. What is the
artist’s message?
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Entente
Militarism
Ultimatum
Mobilize
Neutrality
Stalemate
Convoy
Total war
Conscription
Contraband
Propaganda
Atrocity
Fourteen Points
Self-Determination
Armistice
Pandemic
Reparations
Radicals
Collective security
mandate
Standard 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
Essential Question: How and where was WWI fought?
Words of Wisdom: We become the combined average of the 5 people we hang around the most. This
reference group can determine up to 95% of our success. –Jim Rohn
1. Warm Up: Chapter
11 Illustrated
Vocabulary. Use
terms on next slide.
2. Wrap Up: Due Today
• Current Event #2
Due Friday.
• Be good for Ms.
Ramirez.
On next slide.
Warm Up
Friday
answer in
complete
sentences.
Today’s Standard
10.5 Students Analyze the causes
of World War I
 Examine the principal theaters of
battle, major turning points, and
the importance of geographic
factors in military decisions and
outcomes…
Today’s Objectives
Discuss the escalation of the war
and the concept of Trench
warfare.
Begin discussing the human cost
of World War I.
Review
Archduke Assassinated =
Alliance System Chain Reaction
on Serbia
2. Russia mobilizes
troops
3. Germany declares
war on Russia
4. Germany declares
war on France
5. Germany invades
Belgium
6. Britain declares war
on Germany
1. Austria declares war
German Strategy
 Schlieffen Plan 
Avoid two-front war
• Defeat France
quickly, then go
back to Russia
 Russia's weakness’:
• lack of
industrialization &
railroads
• difficult to mobilize
The Schlieffen Plan
The War Begins
 Germany invades Belgium
(neutral)  Britain declares
war
 Western Front = Northern
border of France & Western
Germany
 Germans are almost to Paris
by Sept. 3
 1st Battle of the Marne
(9/5/1914): Allies attack
Germans;
• Germans lose 60 miles;
ruins Schlieffen Plan,
causing war on two
fronts!!
Stalemate & Trench Warfare
 Trench Warfare –
conflict grinds to
halt; huge losses
for small gains
• 500 miles of
trenches
• Extremely small
spaces
• Mud, corpses,
rats, & stench
“Over the Top” into “No Man’s
Land”
Weapons of war
and the
Eastern Front
New Technologies of War
 Leads to more deaths and stalemate
• Machine guns
• Larger artillery
• Poison gas
• Armored tanks
• Airplanes
• U-boats
• Zeppelins
Machine Guns
British machine guns fired 8 rounds per second, at a
distance of 2,900 yards
German Machine Gun
Artillery
Greater power and carried
much further than ever
before.
24 million shells were used
in the battle of Verdun
Poison Gas
75 different
types of
poison-gas
bombs were
used
Armored Tanks
Flame
Throwers
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Fokker
U-boats
Zeppelins
Western Front Battles
Battle of Verdun
 Longest battle of WWI:
Feb 1916 – Dec 1916
 Germans goal was to
“Bleed the French
army white”
 600,000 men killed
 Germans gain 4 miles
Battle of the Somme - July 1916
• 20,000 British killed first day
• 1 million die total
• British gain 5 miles
No Mans Land
Battles on the Eastern Front
 Eastern Front = German & Russian border
 1914 – Germans drive Russians into retreat;
Russians driven out of Austria-Hungary
 Russia loses 2 million men in 1915
 Russia is not industrialized, therefore they can’t
get supplies from Allies
Fighting in the East
Armenian Genocide
Turkish government attempts to wipe
out Armenians in Turkish empire.
EQ: Describe human
rights violations and
genocide against the
Armenians by the
Ottoman government.
 2.5 million Armenians
in Turkish Empire
 Armenians are
Christian
 Thought to be traitors
of Muslim empire
 Obstacle to an all
Turkish empire
(extreme nationalism)
 April 24th, 1915 – 100’s
of Armenians arrested –
executed, imprisoned, or
deported
 1000’s of women and
children deported to
Syrian desert – died of
starvation and thirst
 Men executed.
Armenian Genocide
 From 1915 to around 1919 –
1,500,000 of the 2,500,000 were Armenians killed
Armenian Genocide: 60 Minutes
Video Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=HbjCyOjmTS8