1. Advise the President of the USA
Describe the possible unfolding of world war in Brief the president of the USA.
Three steps minimum in the unfolding of war events.
Three sources minimum to back up your analysis.
Include alliances with at least three allied coalition members in each alliance.
Include three specific references to World War I to help the president compare situations, past and present.
Use all resources available to you for research or presentation.

2. Warm Up
Explain Germany’s point of view about the world situation prior to the start of the Great War.
What did Germany want?
What did Germany fear?
Name the member nations in the Entente.
Name the Central Powers.

3. Videos Show khanacademy clip—the status of Europe before WWI
show battle of the somme video clip July to November 1916
this is footage from battle of the Somme

4. Do Now How does technology affect the attitude about going to war?
Identify technologies that might shape war thinking:
1914
2017

5. Can human beings learn from history?
Warm Up
Why do some historians say that the Treaty of Versailles was one of the core reasons for the start of World War II?
What could the victorious allies have done to change this situation?
What did the United States do after World War II?
Can human beings learn from history?

6. What caused World War I ?
Militarism. Nations developed military power.
Alliances. Nations formed secret alliances.
Imperialism. All the great powers wanted empires.
Nationalism. Serbia, and others, wanted independence.
Remember MAIN “main causes of WWI”

8. Opponents Entente Cordiale…Triple Entente…Allies
Britain, France, Russia
Triple Alliance…Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
Italy began with Central, shifted to Allies
[Italy withdrew from the Triple Alliance because the alliance had changed its posture from defensive to offensive. Italy had joined only with defense in mind.]

9. What steps did the Europeans nations take to cause World War I?
They desired larger empires. Who had biggest? Who on the rise?
They feared the rise of other empires. Who feared most?----- Who was “dying” of “old age”?
Some wanted independence and more power. Who? When? Where?
They developed enhanced technologies. What were these technologies?

10. What steps did the European nations take to cause World War I?
Serbs killed the archduke.
Austro-Hungary declared war against Serbia.
Russia mobilized troops to defend Serbia.
Germany declared war against Russia.
Germany charged toward France through Belgium. (Von Schlieffen Plan)
Britain had treaty with Belgium.
Britain declared war on Germany.

11. What were the major battles of World War I?
The Marne, 1914, 1918—stalemate
Verdun, 1916—ten months; 1 million casualties
The Battles of Ypres 1914, 1915, 1917—gas introduced
The Somme Offensive, 1916—1 million casualties…Britain 57,000 day 1…20,000 dead day 1.
Cambrai, 1917—tanks introduced

12. German U-Boats sank the British ship Lusitania (with 128 Americans killed)

13. Did this cause the United States to enter the war?

14. World cable system
What is your opinion? Is this advanced or primitive?

15. Zimmerman

16. Zimmerman decoded Did this cause the United States to enter the war?
Zimmerman Telegram decoded
Did this cause the United States to enter the war?

17. Surface
Inference
Meaning

18. Germany resumed unrestricted warfare in the open ocean
Germany resumed unrestricted warfare in the open ocean. It sank six United States vessels.
U-Boats
Did this cause the United States to enter the war?

20. Video The Somme Offensive
Combat in World War I
The Somme Offensive
Harlem Hell Fighters
Flight in World War I
U-boats in World War I
Somme with music

21. Please read and take notes in your composition book. BBO
Our Documents:
Zimmerman Telegram 144
Wilson’s Address to Congress 146
Wilson’s Fourteen Points 149