STANDARDS:

• CA.10.5. Content Standard: World History, Culture, and Geography

• Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.

  • 10.5.1. Performance Standard:

  • Analyze the arguments for entering into war presented by leaders from all sides of the Great War and the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts, domestic discontent and disorder, and propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing the civilian population in support of 'total war.'

  • 10.5.2. Performance Standard:

  • Examine the principal theaters of battle, major turning points, and the importance of geographic factors in military decisions and outcomes (e.g., topography, waterways, distance, climate).

  • 10.5.3. Performance Standard:

  • Explain how the Russian Revolution and the entry of the United States affected the course and outcome of the war.

  • 10.5.4. Performance Standard:

  • Understand the nature of the war and its human costs (military and civilian) on all sides of the conflict, including how colonial peoples contributed to the war effort.

  • 10.5.5. Performance Standard:

  • Discuss human rights violations and genocide, including the Ottoman government's actions against Armenian citizens.

• CA.10.6. Content Standard: World History, Culture, and Geography

• Students analyze the effects of the First World War.

  • 10.6.1. Performance Standard:

  • Analyze the aims and negotiating roles of world leaders, the terms and influence of the Treaty of Versailles and Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the causes and effects of the United States's rejection of the League of Nations on world politics.

  • 10.6.2. Performance Standard:

  • Describe the effects of the war and resulting peace treaties on population movement, the international economy, and shifts in the geographic and political borders of Europe and the Middle East.

  • 10.6.3. Performance Standard:

  • Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians.

  • 10.6.4. Performance Standard:

  • Discuss the influence of World War I on literature, art, and intellectual life in the West (e.g., Pablo Picasso, the 'lost generation' of Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway).

Significant Event Project Examples

Students select a specific date from World WAR 1 and reproduce a newspaper headline/front-page of the event

Then and Now Project Examples

MAIN Project Examples

When it comes to causes of Word War 1, most historians identify 4 MAIN Reasons

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism, this project allows students to see the impact of each