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WORLD WAR I - Outline
THE GREAT WAR
THE WAR TO END ALL WARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1st What are the essential questions we need to answer?
I.
Background
1.
What was the world like
Rulers
International Relations
What role does nationalism/imperialism/self-determination play?
Peace
Business
II.
What happened? How did it start?
WWI Digital History Readings
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us32.cfm
WWI Timeline
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ww1_chron.cfm
Maps
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/maps/
Go to Maps-What observations can we make?
June, 1914
What Happens
Why?
Who gets involved-Why and on whose side
www.pbs.org/greatwar
Battle Strategies
Von Schlieffen plan-quote
Battle of Marne
Taxicabs
Battle of Tannenberg---quote—what does it tell you about Russians
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/historian/hist_figes_03_tannenberg.html
Stalemate-Trap
Why
Trenches???
Christmas Truce
TOTAL WAR
What is it?
New Weaponry
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/historian/hist_simkins_03_newweapons.html
How is war changing?
How does this relate to what Mahan advised at the end of the 19th century
(1800’s)?
1915
Gallipoli
Genocide
Presentation
Lusitania
1916-Stalemate
US position
Issues
Support
Pancho Villa
Sussex and Sussex Pledge
Wilson’s Re-election
1917-Germany-how to win war w/uBoats
WWI
US enters the war in 1917
Why do we enter the war?
123As Wilson says-we need to:
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Who leaves the war in 1917?
How does this help the Germans?
But we are the doughboys…we are going…..”over there!”
Wilson Draft
What was the effect?
What does this sound like?
Remember themes in history!
Homefront
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ww1_chron.cfm
Women in WWI
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvets4.html
What were their roles?
African-Americans in WWI
Migrated North-Why?
In the Service
Business????
War Industries Board
Bernard Baruch
What is a “war of public opinion?”
Committee on Public Information
George Creel
Four Minute Men
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4970/
Raise $-War Bonds
Use of films….
Music-“Over There” vs. “I Didn’t Raise my Son to be a Soldier.”
Propaganda - then vs. today
www.authentichistory.com
A & E ACTS Exercise
Anti-German Sentiment
Dachshunds
German Measles
Music-Bach and Beethoven
St. Louis
Berlin Street
Robert Paul Prager-Collinsville, Il
1918-End of War Exercise
January, 1918-Wilson indicated what he wanted in his 14 Points!
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us32.cfm
Treaty of Versailles
What were the results?
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/ww1/index.cfm
WWI
How did it change the US?
World Power
Alliances
What countries grew in stature; which countries decreased in stature?
Decreased-Germany/Austiran-Humgary/British Empire/Turkey
Increased US-Soviet Union
League of Nations---What happened
Why did it fail
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_league.html
WWI Lasting Effects
14 Pts.-Wilson
League of Nations fail
Change in Boundaries-new countriesPolitical Boundaries???
Results of WWI
Growth of US as World Power
Soviet Union Communism
New Warfare
Genocide
Germany Punish
Land
Armaments
Economy
Then and Now-relating WWI to WWII , the oil crisis and today…
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/thenandnow/index.html#top