Introduction to WWI Laptop • Go to my website • Go to useful links • Click on WWI Website link • Explore the website and write a two paragraph No Laptop • Look through the book (pages 756 – 784) • Write 15 facts about WWI (must all be from different sections)
Introduction to WWI. Warm Up. STUDY for Napoleon/Ind. Rev. Quiz Look at my useful links for a practice quiz If your friend got in a fight, would you jump in and help them? Why or why not? Agenda Notes/PowerPoint WWI Causes activity Exit Quiz. World War I. “The war to end all wars”. WWI. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Introduction to WWI
Laptop• Go to my website• Go to useful links• Click on WWI Website link• Explore the website and write a two paragraph summary of WWI (must all be from different sections)
No Laptop• Look through the book (pages 756 – 784)• Write 15 facts about WWI (must all be from different sections)
Warm Up• STUDY for Napoleon/Ind. Rev.
Quiz– Look at my useful links for a practice
quiz
• If your friend got in a fight, would you jump in and help them? Why or why not?
disliked Napoleon, many admired what he had accomplished
• What did Napoleon accomplish?
• B. His empire, along with the French Revolution, inspired the idea of nationalism
I. Rise of Nationalism
• C. Nationalism is the idea that people identify themselves as a part of a community defined by the same language, government, and culture. This community is called a nation.
• D. Before nationalism, people would be loyal to their king, town, or region. Now, their loyalty is to their people
I. Rise of Nationalism• E. Nationalism led to the
unification of German and Italian people under one nation and one government.
• 1. Germans were united because of their leader Otto von Bismarck, who led the strong Prussian military to victories over Austria and France, uniting the German people.
Otto von Bismarck
“ The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and the resolutions of the majority…but by iron and blood”
II. The Road to War• A. After the victory over France, Germany
feared that France would seek revenge.• B. In order to protect itself, it made an
alliance with Austria – Hungary• What is an alliance?• 1. Germany, Austria – Hungary, and their
allies were known as the Central Powers• This made Germany even more powerful.
How do you think the other nations in Europe responded?
II. The Road to War• C. In order to protect
themselves from these nations, Britain, France and Russia also created an alliance.
• 1. These nations and their allies are known as the allied powers
• What is the danger of having these alliances?
• What do you think will happen next?
II. The Road to War
III. Causes of WWI• A. Belief in nationalism
said that a country should do what is best for itself, not what is best for the world
• B. Alliances (Allied Powers vs. Central Powers)
• C. Militarism – the building up of a military
• 1. Nations involved in these alliances began militarism in preparation for a war.
III. Causes of WWI• D. Assassination of
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• 1. Ferdinand was to be the next ruler over Austria – Hungary
• 2. He was assassinated by a group of people who wanted independence for Serbia (which had an alliance with Russia)
III. Causes of WWI• E. Once Austria –
Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia declared war on Austria – Hungary
• 1. The rest of Europe soon declared war on each other
III. Causes of WWI• With the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand,
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.• Russia (Serbia’s ally) declared war on Austria-
Hungary• Germany (Austria-Hungary’s ally) declared war on
Russia• France (Russia’s ally) declared war on Germany• Austria-Hungary (Germany’s ally) declared war on
France.• Britain (France’s ally) declared war on Germany and
Austria-Hungary
• WWI is on
III. Causes of WWI
A MAN• Alliances
• Militarism
• Assassination
• Nationalism
Choose OneOption 1 Option 2
Newspaper Article• Write an article on the start of WWI• Include all of the causes• You must also include a picture and a caption
T – Shirt Design• Design 4 T – Shirts based on vocabulary terms from notes• I will be grading these more strictly than before, so make sure I know what the term is just by seeing the pictures!
• Once you finish, work on any missing work• I need notebooks that haven’t been graded yet!
Project
• You have 30 minutes to work on your project
• By the end of this time, you should have:– Your map completed– Half of your interview completed
• Stop Time:
Warm Up
• Name the four causes of WWI• What is one way of convincing
someone to do something?--------------------------------------------------------
----• Agenda
– Power Point/Notes– Map activity– Exit Quiz
New grades are up
IV. WWI• A. WWI was fought on two
fronts• Germany and Austria
Hungary battled Russia and their allies in the east while Germany fought France, Britain, and later the United States in the west
• B. Eventually, both fronts came to a stalemate
• 1. Stalemate – when both sides of a contest are neither winning nor losing
• Stalemate = tie
IV. WWI• 2. The reason this
happened is because both armies dug trenches and fought from inside them
• 3. This led to the spread of diseases within the trenches
• 1. Airplanes were used to bomb troops who believed they were safe in their trenches
• 2. Tanks were used to break through the enemy lines
IV. WWI• D. The Russian Revolution
took place in 1917• 1. With the support of most
of the Russian people, a group called the Bolsheviks killed the Russian Czar (king) and his family
• 2. The Bolsheviks were a political party that supported the idea of communism
• Communism is a form of government introduced by Karl Marx
IV. WWI• a. Communism - is a
form of government where all economic and social aspects are controlled by the government and all property and money are evenly distributed to the people
• 3. Under the Bolsheviks and communism, Russia is now known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR)
IV. WWI• The first communist dictator was Vladamir
Lenin• 4. This revolution eliminated Russia from the
war• E. With the Russians gone, now the Central
Powers only needed to fight on the western front
IV. WWI• 1. With this new
threat, governments used propaganda to get more troops and additional help from their citizens.
• a. Propaganda – ideas spread to influence the opinions of a group of people
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