1. Conflict and Tension Lesson 12: Germany Surrenders
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI
Key Words:
Lusitania
Bolshevik

2. Germany Surrenders

4. The Hundred Days May-August 1918
Germany was running out of time and resources
Allies had large numbers of well-fed and well-equipped troops (mainly from the USA) along with improved artillery, tanks and aircraft.
The ending of trench warfare meant the allies could now make rapid advances with accurate big guns with impressive accuracy that could lay down smokescreens for attackers.
8th August: German Army’s ‘Black Day’ when there was a counter –attack by the allies along the Western front. By late September they had reached the Hindenburg line.
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI

5. 4 10 min videos worth watching for more detail
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI

6. U-boats, Convoys and Battle of JutlandP
Focus Task- P231

7. The Impact of the Blockade
Look at sources 3, 4 and 5 on Page 234
What information about the impact can you learn from each source?
Which source is the most useful and why?
How significant was the blockade in the defeat of Germany?
How useful are Sources B and C to an historian studying
_______________________________________________________________________?
Explain your answer using Sources B and C and your contextual knowledge. [12 marks]
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI

8. Abdication of the Kaiser
Define: Abdicate and Republic
Why was the Kaiser made to Abdicate?
From 27.23:
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI

9. The Armistice Write a newspaper article about the Armistice:
Explain what it is
Why it has happened
The Terms the Germans had agreed to
When the fighting stopped
Why some German Generals and people in Germany were unhappy about the armistice
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI

10. Which factor was most important in leading to the allies victory in World War I
America joining the war
The British Naval Blockade
Failure of the Ludendorff offensive
German losses in 1916 and 1917
Improvements in the Allies army’s effectiveness
Britain and America having more resources than Germany
Each table will be given one of these arguments to present as being the most important reason.
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI

11. Q4 Page 238 Improve this answer
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI