1. Meg, Lauren, Amanda, Martin
USA
Meg, Lauren, Amanda, Martin

2. Timeline 1898 start of Spanish American War
1898 Cuba became an independent republic subject to intense inference by the US
th president elected was Theodore Roosevelt
Large areas of the western states preserved by Theodore Roosevelt
1903 Ford Motor Company formed
1904 Panama canal zone acquired
th president elected was William Howard Taft
1912 Arizona, Alaska, and New Mexico admission to the US
th president elected was Woodrow Wilson

3. 1914 WW1 starts
1917 The USA enters the WW1
1919 Treaty of Versailles
1920 The 19th amendment of the constitution granting women the right to vote is signed
th president elected was Warren Gamaliel Harding
th President elected was Calvin Coolidge
st President elected Herbert Clark Hoover
1929 Great Depression begins
1932 Election of FDR
1933: New Deal

4. CCOT
Analyze the political and economic changes and continuities in the United States from

5. Germany
Eva, Nastia, Carina

6. Dates and Events for Germany, 1871-1933
Creation of the Nation State by Otto Von Bismark (United many tiny states)
1882
Germany enters the Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary and Italy
1905
General Staff devises the Schlieffen Plan to win a future war against France by a quick sweep around Paris
1914
Start of World War One when Germany supports Austria-Hungary
Invasion of Belgium and France stopped at First Battle of the Marne; Schlieffen Plan fails
World War One, British Navy spends whole time blockading food supply.

7. Dates and Events Continued
1915
Germany announced a blockade of Britain by submarine
1916
German High Seas fleet confronts the British Grand Fleet
“Turnip winter"; failure of potato crop; severe food shortages in cities; reliance on Russian turnip
1917
Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, causing the entrance of the US into the war
1918
Overthrow of Kaiser and all royal families; Germany becomes the Weimar Republic, End of Three class voting (which favoured the rich); universal equal suffrage; women get the vote for the first time.
1919
Treaty of Versailles, Ebert (socialist) elected as Germany’s first president

8. Date and Events continued
Weimar Republic, Democratic but highly unstable (established by League of Nations)
1924
Dawes Plan renegotiates reparations, US Banks lend Germany more money to play
1929
Start of Great Depression, Adoption of Young Plan to pay back German debt.
1933
Hitler appointed chancellor

9. CCOT Prompt Germany
Analyze the political and social changes and continuities of Germany between the years 1871 and 1933.

10. Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
Joey, Gerald, Kelvin, Noah

11. 1876: The proposed constitution takes effect and greatly centralizes the Ottoman government.
: Russo-Turkish War
1878: Constitution is suspended, and the writers are exiled, by Sultan Abdulhamid II.
1908: After years of gradual territorial loss, Young Turks push for the sultan to institute constitutional government and guarantee basic rights, in order to reform the declining Turkish Empire. Eventually they lead a rebellion with several military officers later that year.
1912: The Ottomans are defeated by Italy in a relatively small war. The Ottomans lose holdings in Africa.
1914:The Ottomans enter world war one, on the side of the Central Powers
1919: British, French, and Greek armies occupy land near Istanbul (not Constantinople)
Mustafa Kemal forms a new government.

12. 1922: Mustafa Kemal defeats Greek armies; retakes Anatolia
1923: Assembly declares Turkey a republic with Kemal Ataturk as its president.
1924: Ministry of Religious Affairs is abolished. Turkish government becomes effectively secular.
1925: The Sheikh Said Rebellion erupts in Eastern Turkey, fueled by Kurdish revolutionaries.
1926: Turkish civil code is accepted which increases rights for women and prohibits polygamy.
1927: First Turkish census is taken.
1928: The clause retaining Islam as state religion is removed from constitution. The Turkish Alphabet is replaced by the Latin alphabet.
1929: Women are given the right to vote and run for office.

13. Analyze the political changes and continuities in Turkey from 1876 to 1929.

14. Jimmy, (Chas), Raihann, Dillon
Japan
Jimmy, (Chas), Raihann, Dillon

15. Timeline Part 1 1868-start of the Meiji Restoration
Russo-Japanese War
1904-Treaty of Portsmouth ends Russo-Japanese war
1905-Russia acknowledges Japanese protectorate over Korea (1st time non-European country won)
year economic boom starts
1910-Japan annexes Korea
1914-Japan joins Allied side

16. Timeline Part 2 1915-Japan presented China and with Twenty-One Demands
1915-Chinese anti-Japanese riots and boycotts
1923-Kanto Earthquake killing 200,000
1925-Introduces universal male sufferage
1927-banking system collapses
1928-population hits 65 million
1929-Hamaguchi becomes prime minister
1931-Invasion of Manchuria

17. CCOT Prompt - Japan
Describe political changes and continuities in Japan from 1868~1931.

18. China
Cole, Byron, Lakshya

19. Revolution and War (1900)
1900: Boxer Rebellion encouraged by Dowager Cixi
1900: Japan occupies Beijing with Western powers, demands heavy indemnity
1908: Sun Yat-sen and revolutionary alliance attempt to take power, thwarted by military.
1911: Yuan Shikai comes to power after regional army mutinies, quashes Sun's party
1915: 21 demands presented to China by Japan that would have turned it into a virtual protectorate. USA and UK persuade them to soften demands, but they still took German enclaves in China and extracted railroad and mining concessions at China's expense.

20. Revolutionary Alliance(1908)
1919: Paris Peace Conference:West accepts Japanese seizure of German enclaves in China-this was viewed as a grave insult by most educated Chinese.
1919: Students demonstrated in front of Beijing, protested against foreign domination
1920: Sun Yat-sen attempts comeback with a communist party inspired by Lenin
1925: Jiang Jieshi (Chiang kai-shek) takes power after death of Sun Yat-sen
1927: Jiang Jieshi crushes regional warlords, issues ambitious plans to modernize, the implementation of which are thwarted due to incompetent and corrupt officials
1931: Japan invades Manchuria, declares manchurian independance for the Republic of Manchukuo

21. CCOT PROMPT
Analyze political and economic changes and continuities in China between 1900 and 1929.

22. Russia/U.S.S.R.
Sahil, Tom, Matt, Eugene

23. Russia And The USSR 1894: Nicholas II assumes the title of Tsar.
1905: political unrest results in establishment of Duma, a constitutional monarchy, eventually dissolved by tsar
1914: Russia enters the "Great War."
1916: The Russian army runs out of ammunition and other essential supplies.
1917: "February Revolution"; food ran out in St. Petersburg, led to mutinies/strikes by workers and soldiers. Tsar abdicated and parliamentary parties, led by Alexander Kerensky, formed a Provisional Gov’t.

24. Russia And The USSR
1917: "October Revolution"; the Bolsheviks gained the support of the workers and soldiers in St. Petersburg and rose up and took the city.
1918: The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed with Russia at a territorial disadvantage. The treaty was meant to promote peace with Russia's neighbors.
: Russian civil war--the Bolsheviks come out on top.
1921: New Economic Policy: peasants had more freedom as to what they could do with their produce.
1926: Stalin takes control of Russia.
1928: The Five Year Plan was announced, allowing development in every aspect of Russian politics and society.

25. CCOT Prompt
Analyze political change and continuity between in Russia.