Transcript Weekly Plans 1/5 -1/8 Start of WWI

Weekly Plans 1/5 -1/8
Start of WWI
Mr. Armstrong
Tuesday | January 5th
Topic: Intro to WWI
AIM #1: What caused the outbreak of WWI?
DO NOW:
1. Copy down tonight’s HW (GRA 23-1, p. 666-670)
2. Begin reading then answering the questions on today’s
WKSHT
Reminder: FINAL DRAFT of DBQ DUE
THIS FRIDAY (1/8)
Causes of
World War I
War begins in 1914
M-A-N-I-A
•Militarism
•Alliances
•Nationalism
•Imperialism
•Assassination
Militarism
• Policy of building armed forces to prepare for war
• Britain and Germany competed to build the strongest
navy
Alliances
• Nations formed pacts to protect themselves
• Triple Alliance: Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy
• Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia
Nationalism
• Pride in one’s nation
• Belief that people of
common culture should
have separate countries
• Russia encouraged Serbs
to rebel against AustriaHungary
• Embarrassed France had
to give Alsace-Lorraine to
Germany
Imperialism
• Stronger nations take advantage
of political and economic affairs
of weaker nations
Early World War I
I.
Causes of the War
•Militarism
•Alliances
•Nationalism
•Imperialism
•Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand  SPARK
Assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand
A. Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary,
was traveling through Sarajevo, the capital of
Bosnia
B. Bosnia was part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire
C. Ferdinand was killed by the Black Hand, a terrorist
group from Serbia in June 1914
D. Austria-Hungary accused the Serbian government
of planning the assassination
E. Russia was prepared to defend her ally Serbia
F. One by one, countries of Europe began to declare
war
II. Europe was divided into two groups
• Allied Powers
• Central Powers
•Britain
•France
•Russia
•Germany
•Austria-Hungary
•Ottoman Empire
(Turkey)
A. Soon, other nations would join sides
1. Most would join the Allies – including Italy
American Neutrality
A. America decided to be neutral 
not favor one side or the other
B. Americans had ties to both the Allied and Central Powers
Allied Powers
• Britain was a major trade
partner
• France was an ally
during the American
Revolution
• Spread Democracy
Central Powers
• Many Americans came
from Germany
• Jewish people in the U.S.
hated Russia
• Irish hated Britain
American Neutrality (cont.)
C. American economy boomed as Europe was desperate for supplies
1. The U.S. traded with the Allies more than the Central Powers, so the U.S.
was not completely neutral
D. Both sides sent propaganda to the U.S.
1. Propaganda spreads ideas to influence people
2. Very often stories are exaggerated or completely untrue
3. Anti-German propaganda referred to the Germans as “Huns”, the name for
an ancient tribe of barbarians
IV. Freedom of the Seas
A. Neither Britain or
Germany wanted the
U.S. trading with their
enemy
B. Britain launched a
traditional blockade
around German ports
1. Americans did not
challenge the British
blockade very often
Freedom of the Seas (cont.)
A.
Germany responded by
blockading Britain using
their U-boats
1.
2.
U-boats were a new
weapon - submarines
Because the U-boats
were not equipped to
stop and search boats
like British ships, the
U-boats simply
torpedoed any ship in
the blockade zone
Wednesday | January 6th
Topic: Introduction to WWI Continued
AIM #2: What caused the outbreak of WWI?
DO NOW:
1. Copy down tonight’s HW (Memo #1 & #2 of today’s WWI PKT)
2. Take out last night’s HW (GRA 23-1), and be ready to check your answers
3. Continue Guided Notes WKSHT from yesterday’s class
Reminder: FINAL DRAFT of DBQ DUE
THIS FRIDAY (1/8)
Thursday | January 7th
Topic: America’s Sympathy for the Allies
AIM #3: How did America’s involvement with Allied Powers during the war put pressure on
it to join the war?
DO NOW:
1. Copy down tonight’s HW (FINISH DBQ ESSAY – DUE TOMORROW)
• Check the DBQ Rubric on my website if you’d like to see how it will be graded
• Run through the checklist and make sure you’ve formatted the paper correctly
2. Take out last night’s HW (Memo PKT #1 & 2) and be ready to share your
responses.
Examples of Document References:
• According to Upton Sinclair’s book; The Jungle; “…men’s fingers were
severed, knuckles swollen and finger nails eaten away by acid…”(Doc
3).
• The political cartoon in Document 1a depicts big business owners, or
monopolists, as having too much power and control over decisions
made in the Senate.
Fish Bowl
• Be ready, if called on or you volunteer, to explain the course of action you would
have suggested for President Wilson pertaining to the issues outlined in Memos
#1 & 2.
• If someone in the fishbowl has the same recommendation as you did, be sure to
add additional points to your own justification/explanation that you have written
down on your sheet.
President Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality
The effect of the war upon the United States will depend upon what American citizens say and do.
Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality, which is the spirit of
impartiality and fairness and friendliness to all concerned. The spirit of the nation in this critical matter will be
determined largely by what individuals and society and those gathered in public meetings do and say, upon
what newspapers and magazines contain, upon what ministers utter in their pulpits, and men proclaim as their
opinions upon the street.
The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at
war. It is natural and inevitable that there should be the utmost variety of sympathy and desire among them
with regard to the issues and circumstances of the conflict. Some will wish one nation, others another, to
succeed in the momentous struggle. It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it. Those responsible
for exciting it will assume a heavy responsibility, responsibility for no less a thing than that the people of the
United States, whose love of their country and whose loyalty to its government should unite them as
Americans all, bound in honor and affection to think first of her and her interests, may be divided in camps of
hostile opinion, hot against each other, involved in the war itself in impulse and opinion if not in action.
Such divisions amongst us would be fatal to our peace of mind and might seriously stand in the way of
the proper performance of our duty as the one great nation at peace, the one people holding itself ready to
play a part of impartial mediation and speak the counsels of peace and accommodation, not as a partisan, but
as a friend.
I venture, therefore, my fellow countrymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against that
deepest, most subtle, most essential breach of neutrality which may spring out of partisanship, out of
passionately taking sides. The United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name, during these days that
are to try men's souls. We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our
sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the
struggle before another.
Friday | January 8th
Topic: Neutrality & The Sinking of the Lusitania
AIM #4: How did the sinking of the Lusitania make America’s stance of neutrality difficult to
maintain?
DO NOW:
1. Take out your DBQ Essay and submit them to the bin on my desk. Make sure it
is stapled.
2. Copy down tonight’s HW (Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality WKSHT)
• You took this WKSHT yesterday when you walked into class
3. Begin today’s DO NOW; Sinking of the Lusitania Article WKSHT
Announcement: WWI Quiz next Wednesday (1/13)
1. What was the name of the ship according to the news article?
2. What year did this incident take place?
3. What is meant by the statement; “Washington believes that a grave crisis is at hand?”
4. What do you think the sinking of the ship means for America and its stance of neutrality during
World War I?
5. What does this event remind you of? What is the similarities and differences between this
event and the one prior?
Sinking of the Lusitania Video
Directions: As you watch the video, answer the guided questions below along with any other
presented tasks.
What type of ship was the Lusitania?
Where did the Lusitania leave from and where was it going?
What was the ship carrying?
What did the German advertisements warn passengers of?
What was lurking beneath the surface of the water on May 7, 1915?
What happened to the Lusitania?