Big Ideas: World War, Human Cost, Poison Gas, Trench Warfare, Machine Guns,
Airplanes, Submarines, tanks, Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, 14 Points
Essential Questions: When should we go to war? What is Peace?
Learning Targets:
1. Identify the 4 causes of WWI.
2. Summarize the Global Scope of the war
3. Identify the New Technologies in WWI
4. Interpret Wilson’s 14 Points, Treaty of Versailles, and the League of Nations
5. Connect the Human Cost of the war in terms of Global Scope and New Technologies
6. Evaluate the 14 Points, Treaty of Versailles, and League of Nations in
terms of lasting peace and/or punishment
Thursday 12/3: Mahan Packet, Monroe Doctrine, and Isolation v. Intervention
Friday 12/4: Mapping the Spanish American War
Monday 12/7: Spanish American War, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Panama,
Hawaii, Boxer Rebellion, HW#1 DUE
Tuesday 12/8: Intro WWI
Wednesday 12/9: WWI to the Zimmermann Note, intro the Ballingerr Note, HW#2 DUE
Thursday 12/10: Footsoldiers of WWI video
Friday 12/11: US enters the war, New Weapons, Eddie Rickenbacker Video
Monday 12/14: Homefront, HW#3 DUE
Tuesday 12/15: Treaty of Versailles and the Post War
Wednesday 12/16: Review, STUDY GUIDES DUE
Thursday 12/17: Test Unit 6
Friday 12/18: Christmas Truce Video
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Enjoy your Holiday Break!
Monday 1/4: Library to work on Projects
Tuesday 1/5: Library to work on projects
Wednesday 1/6: Library to work on projects, PROJECT DUE
Thursday 1/7: Review
Friday 1/8: Review
Monday 1/12: Review for Midterm Exam
Tuesday 1/12: Review for Midterm Exam; YOUR TIMELINE TEST WILL BE ON THE DAY
OF YOUR MIDTERM EXAM, YOU WILL TAKE IT BEFORE YOUR MIDTERM EXAM!!!
Wednesday 1/13: Finals Periods 1, 4, 7
Thursday 1/14: Finals Periods 2, 5
Friday 1/15: Finals Periods 3, 6
Timeline
Boxer Rebellion US gains the Panama Canal Zone
Roosevelt Corollary Issued Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power… published
USS Maine Explodes Queen Liliuokalani overthrown
WWI Begins Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Lusitania Sinks TR becomes president
Sussex Pledge Taft elected president
Treaty of Versailles Wilson elected president
AEF arrives in Europe McKinley elected president
Homework #1 Chapter 10 Section 2 and 3 (357-364 and 366-371) Due Friday 12/5
1. Define the following: William Randolf Hearst, Treaty of Paris, Jingoism,
Platt Amendment, Open Door Policy, Spheres of Influence, Roughriders,
Roosevelt Corollary
2. What role did newspapers have in expansion and war?
3. What caused the Spanish American War? Look beyond the immediate incident!
4. Why was it called the Splendid Little War?
5. What role did businessmen have in the annexation of Hawaii?
6. What was controversial about gaining the land and the permission to build a
canal through Panama?
7. Describe TR’s foreign policy and its goals.
8. What was the basis and beliefs behind the foreign policy of Wilson?
Homework #2 Chapter 12 Section 1 and 2 (414-424) Due Tuesday 12/9
1. Define the following: Central Powers, Allies, propaganda, U-boat,
Zimmermann Note,
2. What is the difference between an event that ignites a war and the causes
of the war? What ignited WWI and what were its causes?
3. What was the reaction to the war from both our government as well as the
citizens? Were we united in our course of action?
4. What was our view of the use of the U-boat? What role did this new weapon
have in our joining of the war?
5. Could the United States have avoided entrance into this war? If you answer
yes, then what could it have done differently?
Homework #3 Chapter 12 Section 4 (432-436) Due Friday 12/12
1. Define the following: Liberty Bonds, daylight savings time, Espionage Act,
Sedition Act
2. How did the war change the lives of the U.S. citizens?
3. What role did the government play in the wartime economy? What changes did
they make?
4. Should the government be able to limit the rights and/or freedoms of
individuals during a time of national crisis? Was the Sedition and Espionage
Acts all that bad anyway?