Unit 11: The Great War

Section 1 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.1                   Commentary: SHERER_HISTORY_WWI_1.1 [8 min]

• 1: Setting the Stage 
  • Long-Term Causes 
    • ​The Hague Tribunal
  • Collective Security: The Alliance System​
    • WW1 Alliances

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]

​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]

Section 4 Slide Show: SH_WWI_1.4                  COMMENTARY: SHERER_HISTORY WWI_1.4

• 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
      • ​slideshow
      • questions sheet
      • review answers
  • ​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
• 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

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• ​​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

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"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all" - Bob Dylan​