Transcript BELL WORK - MrMooreATA2010

BELL WORK
• Predict; What would be a reason for the United
States to get involved in WWI? (Complete
sentences)
WWI: America’s Road to War
Chapter 9 Section 2 page 270 - 275
Update
• YEAR 1916
• WWI still a deadlock
• British want U.S. to enter War
• Use of Propaganda
• Germans want war to end
completely
• 3 Steps to end war
• Sink all merchant ships
• Start revolution in Russia
• Zimmerman telegraph
American Neutrality
๏ President Woodrow Wilson
declares U.S. will remain
neutral
๏ Reasons Against;
๏ Problems in Mexico
๏ Victoriano Huerta had
killed the Pres, and VP
๏ Doesn’t involve American
Government or citizens
๏ Immigrants
๏ Irish and German do
not want U.S. to enter
WWI
๏ Reasons for;
๏ British Propaganda
- Passenger ship sank by German U-boat
- 126 Americans killed
-Over 1,000 civilians dead
Sinking of the Lusitania
End of American
Neutrality
๏ Wilson Re-Elected (November
’16)
๏ “He Kept us out of War”
๏ Germany announces it will
sink all merchant ships on
sight (January ’17)
๏ Wilson outraged
๏ February ’17
๏ British intercept
Zimmerman Telegram from
German government to
Mexico
๏ Letter suggest Mexico
attack the U.S.
๏ German promised land
back in return
BELL WORK
• IF THERE WAS NO ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM, DOYOU
BELIEVE THIE U.S. WOULD HAVE:
• A enter the war when it did
• B enter the war at a later time
• C not been drawn into war at all
• EXPLAIN ANSWER FULLY!
Examples of WWI Propaganda
Example
Example
German Stuff
Propaganda Poster Rubric
• You will be creating a WWI propaganda
poster/Recruitment Poster
• You will not be graded on your talent level as an artist
• You must have;
• An original idea
• You must put for effort
• You poster must look like a 9th grader created it
• No stick figures!
• You may work in groups of 2, if I find you not working,
you will be given a 0, an alternate assignment, ect…