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World War I
Curriculum Guide
8th Grade Social Studies
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WWI Curriculum Guide
1. WWI MANIA!!! 1914-1918 Write Down the 5 main causes of WWI (Slide 2)
Militarism – policy of building up strong _________________ forces to prepare for war
Alliances- agreements between nations to aid and __________________ one another
Nationalism- pride in or ___________________ to one’s country
Imperialism-when one country _____________
_______________another country
economically and politically
Assassination- murder of Austrian ____________________ Franz Ferdinand
2. How would you explain Europe’s languages and nationalities? (Slide 6)
Europe is very _________________________ when it comes to its languages and nationalities.
3. What does Pan- Germanism mean? (Slide 8)
Pan-Germanism - movement to ________________the people of all German speaking countries.
4. Who was killed in Bosnia that was the “spark” that started WWI? (Slide 13)
Austrian Archduke _____________________ ________________________was assassinated or killed in
Bosnia by a Serbian nationalist who believed that Bosnia should belong to Serbia.
5 THE POINT OF NO RETURN: After the assassination of the Archduke describe how the war begins.
(Slide 15-16)
Austria blamed _________________ for Ferdinand’s death and declared war on
________________.
Germany pledged their support for _________________________.
· Example of Pan-German nationalism
Russia pledged their support for _______________________________.
· Example of Pan-Slavic nationalism
Germany declares ________________ on Russia.
France pledges their ________________ for Russia.
Germany declares war on _____________________.
Germany invades _____________________ on the way to France.
Great Britain supports ____________________ and declares war on Germany.
6. Who were the Allied Powers and who were the Central Powers? (Slide 17)
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Great ________________
Ger___________________
Fr_____________
Austria________________
Ru_________________
Ottoman _____________
United _________ joins later in
war 1917
It________________________
7. What type of warfare was used during WWI? Describe it briefly. (Slide 20)
________________ Warfare a type of fighting during World War I in which both sides ______________
trenches protected by mines and barbed wire.
8. Turn and Talk: What was a rodent who caused problems in the trenches? (Slide 25)
Trench ___________________
How does the primary source quotes help describe the conditions in the trenches during WWI? What
are your thoughts? (Slide 25)
9. With unsanitary conditions and wet ground identify what the man in the photograph on slide 27 is
suffering from.
Trench_______________________
10. Read for Meaning: Please read the following three statements before you read and agree or
disagree with them. Then as you read keep the statements in the back of your mind and find
information from the text for or against the statements. There may be proof for and against in the
same statement.
Proof For
Statements
1.The conditions during WWI
exhausted the soldiers
Agree
Disagree
2.The gas attacks did not have a
large effect on the soldiers in
WWI.
Agree
Disagree
3.The main message the author
gets across in this passage is that
it is an honor to fight and die for
your country.
Agree
Disagree
Proof Against
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.-Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. (“How fitting and sweet it is to die for one’s country.”)
11. Looking at the picture on slide 30 what do you think the masks are being used for?
12. Using the graphic organizer below identify the new technologies that made WWI more deadly.
(Slide 31)
Gas _____________
U- ____________
NEW
TECHNOLOGY
T_______________
Machine____________
13. What was America’s response to WWI originally? (Slide 38)
Officially, the U.S. was a _______________ country.
14. United States comes closer to war Slides 39-43:
Explain why the British and German Blockades of their coasts were a problem for the
United States? (Slide 39)
There were ____________________ on our trade.
What occurred in 1915 in the Atlantic Ocean? (Slide 40)
A German submarine torpedoed and sunk the __________________, a British passenger
ship, killing approximately 1,200 people, including 128 Americans
Elaborate on what Germany communicated to Mexico in the middle of WWI. What was
that document called? What was the result of this, blockading U.S. trade, and the
sinking of the Lusitania? (Slide 43)
The ______________________ telegram
A secret message from Germany to Mexico urging Mexico to ______________ the U.S. if
the U.S. declared war on Germany.
The U.S. _____________________ ________________ on the Central Powers in 1917.
15. Describe what happened in Russia after the Royal family was executed in 1918? (Slide 50)
Russia became ______________________________________.
16. What was so important about the Russians dropping out of WWI? (Slide 51)
Germany then sent their troops on the Eastern Front to the ______________________
___________________. They could now focus on one side of the war instead of stretching their army
too thin.
17. Describe Communism and who created the idea. (Slide 52-54)
A theory that supports the elimination of _________________ _______________ and the equal
distribution of goods under a dictator.
Created by Karl _____________________
Supports the ______________ _____________ of the working class against the “bourgeois” or
business/ land owners and the ruling class.
The Communist experiment spread throughout Europe and other parts of the world between the 1920’s
and the 1970’s. However, by 1989 the Communist experiment had failed.
18. Think, Pair, Share: What are your thoughts about communism after watching the animated world
map from 1917-2000 on slide 55?
19. What did the Allied and Central powers use to support their cause, and put down country that
they were against during WWI? How can you relate this to put downs and gossip here at the middle
school? (Slide 56)
Pro_____________________
20. What was the Selective Service Act? (Slide 57)
Required all men from the age of 21 to 30 to register for the military ___________________________.
21. What was one simple thing that Americans did to help the war effort? (Slides 60-64)
Americans learned to ____________________ food for the soldiers.
22. Explain what Americans did in order support the effort in conserving food for the troops besides
cutting back on their consumption certain foods. (Slide 65)
In order to support the troop’s _____________ _____________ were grown by people throughout the
nation.
23. What was some of the American Women’s’ Role in the war effort? (Slide 68)
Women took over the __________________________ of men fighting in the war.
24. Why were liberty bonds so important? (Slide 69)
Liberty bonds were a way that Americans ___________________ supported the war so that materials
could be purchased and sent to Europe.
25. Where did the United States fight in WWI? (Slide 74)
The United States fought on the ____________________
__________________________.
26. What was a big risk for Allied Ships in the Atlantic Ocean? Elaborate on how the Allies tried to
avoid the risk. (Slide 75)
_____________________ U-Boats
Allies set ___________________ mines at the bottom of the sea that covered 180 miles.
These mines were different because they were triggered by __________________. (British developed)
When German ships passed over them, the magnetic forces caused by the ships passing over the mine
set the mine off and destroyed enemy ships.
27. What Battle in June 1918 was the first battle involving U.S. troops and was the turning point of the
war? (Slide 77)
The Battle of ______________________ ____________________________.
28. Use the Graphic Organizer to demonstrate why the treaty of Versailles set up WWII (Slide 87 and
88)
It created borders in the
_____________that
were based on European
needs for oil, not on
local ethnic/religious
groups.
Focused on punishing
_____________.
Treaty of
Versailles
Created New
Countries:
Japan was granted the German's
sphere of influence in ________
which pushed China to become
Friends with Communist
_____________.
29. What was Wilsons plan for peace called? (Slide 89)
Fourteen ___________________
30. What were the feelings on the treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations in the U.S.? What
happened? (92)