USA Ariel, Tian, (Athena)

1898 – The Spanish-American War 1906 – American occupation of Cuba Pre-World War I 1898 – The Spanish-American War 1906 – American occupation of Cuba 1913 – Woodrow Wilson becomes President 1914 – Panama Canal World War I 1915 – Sinking of the Lusitania 1917 – America declares war on Germany 1918 – Fourteen Points presented World War I ends

Post-World War I Harding, Coolidge, Hoover conservative presidencies, high tariffs Stock Market crash of 1929 Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932 New Deal Recovery Reforms 1933

CCOT Analyze the economic and political changes and continuities of the United States from 1898 to 1933 with the New Deal.

Germany Mady, Katie, Christine

History 1871: Otto von Bismarck unified Germany Late 1870’s: Germany raises tariffs to protect industries from Britain. 1882: Germany joins Italy and Austria-Hungary in a triple alliance. (triple entente: Britain, France, Russia 1888: Beginning of Germany’s navy to compete with Britain. 1888: Beginning of Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd 1914: Franz Ferdinand assassinated & Germany declares war on Russia & France, Britain declares war on Germany. 1914-1918: World War 1

More History 1915: German Cameroon & German colonies of South West Africa are conquered. April 1915: Germans are the first to launch poison gas at the second battle of Ypres 1916: Turn of Winter (massive famine) & US uses submarines to sink British merchant ships. 1917: Germany establishes women’s auxiliary units. Armistice Signed; Emperor Wilhelm 2nd is exiled 1919: Germany signs treaty of Versailles. 1919: Weimar Republic is established. 1919-1923: Inflation causes government to issue new currency. 1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed As chancellor and Nazi Germany begins persecuting Jews

CCOT Prompt Describe economic and political changes and continuities in Germany from 1870-1933.

Ottoman Empire/Turkey Kyle, Matias, Emilio

1876: Young Ottomans Form New Constitution Under Abdul Hamid II 1877: Abdul Hamid II Suspends Constitution and Parliament 1898: Crete occupied by Europeans 1902-1903: Macedonia Rebels 1909: Abdul Hamid II Overthrown by Young Turks in Parliament 1910: Albania Becomes Independent 1912: Italy Conquers Libya 1912-1913: 1st and 2nd Balkan Wars

1914: Ottomans Form a Secret Alliance With Germany; Deport Armenians 1915: British Land at Gallipoli 1916: Hussein Led Revolt in Arabia Against Ottomans 1917: Balfour Declaration 1919: League of Nations Mandates Formed From Former Ottoman Territories 1919: Ataturk Takes Power, Attempts to Westernize Turkey 1919-1922: War Between Turkey and Greece

CCOT Prompt: Analyze political and social changes and continuities in Turkey during the time period 1876-1922.

Japan Joey, Tommy, Anthony, Leo

Important Dates Pt.1 1868 - Meiji Restoration 1870s Hired British engineers to build first railroad 1870’s - British telegraph cables laid to Japan 1894-1895 - Japan wins Sino-Japanese War 1904-1905 – Japan wins Russo-Japanese War 1910 - Japan annexes Korea

Important Dates Pt. 2 1914 Japan joins Great Britain in WW1 by declaring war on Germany 1915 Japan presents 21 demands to China 1919 Treaty of Versailles grants Japan German colonies, but not the Chinese territories they wanted. 1923 Kanto earthquake, destroys ½ of Tokyo 200,000 dead. 1925 Japan population reaches 60 million 1931 Japan invades Manchuria, a mineral wealthy colony in China. 1930s 89% of Japanese homes had electric lights.

CCOT Prompt From 1868 from 1931 analyze the political and economic changes and continuities in Japan.

China Ethan, Eldon, (Antonio)

Timeline 1899 - Open Door Policy enables Europeans to maintain access to a treaty port but restricts European influence 1900 - Boxer Rebellion is started under the guidance of Empress Dowager Cixi; crushed by Europeans 1908 - Empress Dowager Cixi dies; Sun Yat-sen tries to take over government but fails October 1911 - Regional Army Mutiny led by Yuan Shikai December 1911 - Last Qing Emperor Puyi abdicates and Sun Yat-sen is elected president but steps down and Yuan Shikai is elected president 1915 - Japan presents China with Twenty-One Demands, which would have turned China into a protectorate; Japan seizes German enclaves in China

Timeline May 4, 1919 - Students demonstrate in Forbidden city to protest Japanese occupation of German ports Early 1920s - Sun Yat-sen tries to come back; Guomindang allies with Chinese Communist Party 1925 - Sun Yat-sen dies; Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) assumes leadership of the Guomindang (National Peoples’ Party) 1927 - Kai-shek turns against the Chinese Communist Party; defeats most of the regional warlords and establishes dictatorship

CCOT Prompt Analyze the political change and continuity in China between 1899 and 1927.

Russia/USSR Matt, Vlad, Mary

Dates -1861-Emancipation of serfs -1894-Czar Nicholas II was crowned czar -1904-Russo-Japanese War -1905-Bloody sunday -1906-Duma formed -1907-British-russian entente -1914-Start of World War 1 -1917-October Revolutions -1917-February revolution

Dates -1917-civil war between reds and whites -1918-Russia withdraws from WW1(Treaty of Brest-Litovsk) -1921- New economic policies in russia -1870-1924-Lenin's life span -1922-Stalin in power -1928-Trotsky exiled, Five year plan introduced by Stalin

CCOT Prompt Analyze social and political change and continuity in Russia from 1894-1928.