1. USA
Ariel, Tian, (Athena)

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. Germany
Mady, Katie, Christine

6. 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.
: World War 1

7. 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.
: Inflation causes government to issue new currency.
1933: Adolf Hitler is appointed
As chancellor and Nazi Germany begins persecuting Jews

8. CCOT Prompt
Describe economic and political changes and continuities in Germany from

9. Ottoman Empire/Turkey
Kyle, Matias, Emilio

10. 1876: Young Ottomans Form New Constitution Under Abdul Hamid II
1877: Abdul Hamid II Suspends Constitution and Parliament
1898: Crete occupied by Europeans
: Macedonia Rebels
1909: Abdul Hamid II Overthrown by Young Turks in Parliament
1910: Albania Becomes Independent
1912: Italy Conquers Libya
: 1st and 2nd Balkan Wars

11. 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
: War Between Turkey and Greece

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

13. Japan
Joey, Tommy, Anthony, Leo

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

15. 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.

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

17. China
Ethan, Eldon, (Antonio)

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

19. Timeline
May 4, 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
Sun Yat-sen dies; Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) assumes leadership of the Guomindang (National Peoples’ Party)
Kai-shek turns against the Chinese Communist Party; defeats most of the regional warlords and establishes dictatorship

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

21. Russia/USSR
Matt, Vlad, Mary

22. 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

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

24. CCOT Prompt
Analyze social and political change and continuity in Russia from