Unit 11: The Great War
Section 1 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.1 Commentary: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.1 [8 min]
Section 2 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.2 Commentary: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.2 [7 min]
Section 3 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.3 Commentary: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.3
- 1: Setting the Stage
- Long-Term Causes
- Collective Security: The Alliance System
Section 2 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.2 Commentary: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.2 [7 min]
- 2: The Guns of August
- The Powder Keg
- Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand [cool video]
- The Powder Keg
Section 3 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.3 Commentary: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.3
- 3: Total War
- Conventional Wisdom vs. Emerging Technology = War of Attrition
- Weapons of War: Land, Air and Sea
- Stalemate and Attrition
- Christmas Truce of 1914 / Song
- Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owens [READING: foot notes are critical]
- Conventional Wisdom vs. Emerging Technology = War of Attrition
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Section 4 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.4 COMMENTARY: SHERER_HISTORY WWI_1.4
Friday
Section 5 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.5 COMMENTARY: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.5
Additional Avenues of Interest:
- 4. Winning A Total War
- Propaganda
Friday
Section 5 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.5 COMMENTARY: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.5
- 5. Looking Back; Looking Forward
- Armistice and Paris Peace Conference =Treaty of Versailles
- Woodrow Wilson a racist? Read more about it here
- League of Nations Senate Debate - Awesome primary source video
- Consequences Home and Abroad
- The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire [animated video]
- Want to see what a trillion dollars look like? VIDEO
- Armenian Genocide - Why is this still a controversy?
- The Great War: Causes and Effects
- Flu Pandemic Lesson: COMMENTARY
- Pre-DBQ Lesson:
- 1918 Flu Pandemic Question Sheet
- Alfred Crosby's Article (He write the book on the Great Dying we referenced during the Columbian Exchange)
- Primary Source Charts & Graphs
- Primary Source Headlines and Photos
- Primary Source Excerpt: Atlanta, Marseilles, India, San Francisco and Frankfurt
- DBQ
- Additional Links:
- Stanford University article
- Pre-DBQ Lesson:
- Armistice and Paris Peace Conference =Treaty of Versailles
- AP Skillz
- SAQ: What would be some great SAQ prompts related to this WWI unit?
- LEQ: What would be some possible essay prompts regarding this subject?
- DBQ:
- 2015 AP DBQ - would be great if you gave this a shot an email it to me by Sunday
- DBQ Follow-Up
- SLIDE SHOW
- Link to Student Samples
- Link to College Board Commentary
- Additional Sample Link
- Looking for a great film: All Quiet on the Western Front
- originally a book, obviously much better
- despite the movie being "old," I believe it captures the PURPOSE of the book in a powerful way without modern hig-budget film post production
Additional Avenues of Interest:
- Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old - famous director/producer that colorized surviving WWI footage; breathtaking and powerful (no hobbits)
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, The Great War
- Other Episodes of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast that I recommend
- Painfotainment - History of Capital Punishment, bite-sized and amazing
- Celtic Holocaust - Roman destruction of Celtic peoples under Caesar’s era
- King of Kings - The history of the origins of Classical Persia
- Other Episodes of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast that I recommend
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