WWI Unit Chapter 19

Essential Question: How does war impact society?

Key Questions:
1. What are the causes of the war?
2. How does geography influence war?
3. Why are people opposed to war?
4. Why does the United States join the war?
5. How do technologies impact war?
6. How is propaganda used during war?
7. Was the peace treaty fair?

Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to identify the 4 long term causes of WWI and be able to explain how the Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand sparked the war.

Students will be able to locate European countries involved in WWI on a map and be able to identify how location impacts strategy.

Students will define conscientious objectors and describe why various groups were opposed to the war.

Students will analyze events leading up to U.S. entry into the war and be able explain the reasons why America entered the war.

Students will identify new weapons used and be able to describe the effects on casualties during the war.

Students will explore how war impacts soldiers, civilians, and the community and be able to write a poem capturing some of the effects.

Students will identify types of propaganda used during the war and be able to create a propaganda poster for one of the types.

Students will evaluate whether or not the Treaty of Versailles was fair.

Terms & Names:
nationalism
militarism
imperialism
systems of alliances
Allies
Triple Entente
Central Powers
Triple Alliance
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
no man's land
trench warfare
Lusitania
Zimmermann Note
Selective Service Act
conscientious objector
armistice
propaganda
Espionage & Sedition Acts
Treaty of Versailles
Woodrow Wilson
George Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Vittorio Orlando
14 points
League of Nations
reparations
war-guilt clause