World+War+1

**__Eyewitness Reflection__** After reading the article I have learned that there was poor protection against any attack on the Archeduke and that he easily could've been shot. Also the wife of the Archeduke was unfortunately pregnant when Princip had shot her. Princip had a slow and painful torture but he was never killed, for the soldiers had wanted to see him suffer. One of the witnesses were more detailed than the other and it seemed like the first eye witness was more sympathetic and accurate when saying what she had seen.

**__Time Line Activity__**  [|Timeline Activity.doc]

**__Graphic Organizer: Causes of WWI__**  [|Graphic Organizer - Causes of WWI.doc]

**__Opener: WWI Quotes__**  [|Opener Quotes On WWI.doc]

**__Reflection on Video__** The most interesting 'First' in the video, in my opinion, were the IQ tests given to American soldiers. I thought that this was interesting because mainly people would think, 'Why would you need an IQ test to know how to kill a man?' and that was what was going on in my mind. Did the military really need specific IQ ranges for someone to serve their country? I can understand if they were to steer a plan, but to be involved in combat? It's a bit odd.

**__Map Activity__**  > - Britain, France, and Russia > - Germany, Austria, Hungary > France but it goes into Switzerland as well. > Russia, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. > - The allies who were closest with each other had allied together to form an alliance and the geography was to their advantage because since they were so close to each other communication was easy as well as fast.
 * **Identify the Allied Powers (sometimes called the Triple Entente)**
 * **Who were the Central Powers (also known initially as the Triple Alliance)**
 * **Where is the Western Front? It begins and ends where?**
 * **Identify the Eastern Front.**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**How, geographically, did neutral states impact the war?**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__In Class Writing Assignment__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|inclasswriting.docx]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Reflection on Photo Gallery__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">While going through the Trench Warfare photo gallery, something that really got my eye was just how long the trenches had stretched along the Somme River, I wouldn't have thought that the trenches would go on for more than a couple miles, but they went onto hundreds of miles. I feel that the shellproof bunkers were very modern and advanced because we also have bomb proof warfare facilities. In the fourth photo I noticed that the soldiers were wearing gas masks which were a result of the war, this was mentioned in the video we had watched previously. I also found it weird how Canada had defeated the Germans because I thought that the Germans had the strongest and largest army in the world? Another thing mentioned in the the photo gallery were tanks, and I believed that World War One also caused the production of tanks as well. One question I had was what was the significance of Butte de Vauquois? Why was it so imortant that the Allies and Germany were fighting for it? Another question that came about was were the communication trenches effective? The photo gallery ahd described how conditions in the trenches were quite frankly horrific, and I think that that is probably one of the main reasons why trench warfare was soon terminated.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__2 Column Notes: Life in the Trenches__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Part One:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|2CN - Life in Trenches PART ONE.doc] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Part Two:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|2CN - Life in Trenches PART TWO.doc] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Part Three:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|2CN - Life in Trenches PART THREE.doc]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Period 7 Opener__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__//Select five words to describe life on trenches// .__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Grotesque <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Unsanitary <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Unsafe <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Agonizing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- Horrific <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__//Explain why you chose the five words.//__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I chose those specific words because after reading the article on life in the trenches, they described the mice infestation as well as lice and other animals and I literally was quivering in disgust. I also said that the trenches were unsafe because in the pictures they didn't look very reliable in safety. The soldiers had little to no time to sleep so it was definitely agonizing for them. Horrific because the overall life in the trenches were just horrible, the soldiers couldn't sleep properly and the problematic bugs didn't help at all. Was very strict.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__World War One Game Reflection__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">In the game I learned that I lost almost more than 3000 men trying to get across the land into the enemy's. I only got about 9 miles in and I lost so many soldiers that the game told me to retry the mission again! I got through missions 1 - 3 but mission 4 is nearly IMPOSSIBLE! I tried every combination of weaponry but it just didn't work. Very hard game and it made me realzie that harsh reality of fighting in World War I. Also I found out that many of the weather situations had affected the ability of my weapons and soldiers! So overtime I figured out which weapons were relaly working and what weapons were holding me back. Gas definitely doesn't work in poor weather conditions and I found that the planes and blimps aren't effective when it came to rainy weather because of the clouds. Eventually I realized that I wasn't able to defeat mission four. //Accurate account of trench warfare. Descriptions are given to know when weapons are most effective, mines only work in no man's land.//

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Graphic Organizer on Western Wars__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [|Graphic+Organizer+on+Western+Wars.doc]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Armenian Massacre **:

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Background **: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Armenian Genocide, also known as the Armenian Holocaust, and by Armenians as the Great Crimewas the systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I.It was implemented through wholesale massacres and deportations, with the deportations consisting of forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. The total number of resulting Armenian deaths is generally held to have been between 1 million and 1.5 million.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**open and Copy** the link below to your wiki: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Armenian Massacre Project]


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This was an NHD project completed by a student last year
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">On the **homepage** he explains the purpose of the project

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Activity for home page** : <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. Read the background of the people who wrote the song <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. Listen to the lyrics of the song and write your impressions of the song

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Click on the tab: Armenia in the Ottoman Empire** :

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Comment on the following in your wiki:**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**1. Treatment of the Armenians before the massacre** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Christian Armenians were taxed more heavily and were kidnapped in order to forced to switch to the Islam religion. Christian Armenians did not have full rights, they did not have the ability to testify in court and were not able to practice religion freely.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**2. Reasons for the Treatment** : <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">They were Christian Armenians, Christian Armenians were looked down upon by the government.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**3. Hamidian Massacres:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sultan Abdul-Hamid was the leader at the time and his job was to spread words of the Kuran, the easiest way he thought to do so was to make everyone Muslim. He had lead a massacre that had killed more than 300,000 Armenians and also he burnt down market places and other businesses. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**4. Listen to and reflect on "The Armenian Massacre Song"** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The song was a very motivational and powerful song which depicts the feelings and hardships of the Armenians when the Turks had controlled them. One of the lyrics were "memories, they just don't fade away" this can relate to how the Armenians will never forget how they were wrongly treated for being who they were. Another lyric was "we'll rise again on the tides of the hurricane, crush you all and burn you down in flames" this really shows how enraged the Armenians were and how they held grduges against the Turks.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Click on Tab: Armenia in 1915-1917** :
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read about what occurred to the Armenians during this time period and view the photos provided
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** In a pargraph summarize what you learned about the treatment of Armenians during this time period **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Armenians were treated very poorly during this time period, women and men were forced to walk far distances in order to tire them out so it would be easier for the Turks to kill them. Armenian men who were in the army were killed first because they were considered the strongest of the Armenian people. Women were killed but the young women would be kept alive to marry Turkish men and to be slave brides. Children were forced to convert to Islam but they soon died of starvation afterwards. Another cruel thing that the Turks did was they had asked the Armenians, before they killed them, "Would you rather live on as an Islam or die a Christian?" no matter the answer, the Turks still killed and murdered the Armenians.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Click on the tab More....** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Summarize what you gained from each of the following subtopics:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**1. Armenia after the genocide** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The Armenians were trying to get everyone to see how the Turks were committing genocide. A lot of the countries weren't admitting it, but tehy really knew that it was. The Armenians still are trying to get the Turks to admit that it was all genocide, but yet they still don't. It's a lifelong mission for the Armenians. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**2. Turkey's response** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Turks tried to play the innocent ones in this case because they wanted to secretly kill the Armenians since they knew that their allies would get infuriated if they ever found out that they were killing Christians. So Turks were quickly becoming extremely defensive when questioned about the genocide. Arnold Schwarzenegger had soon become involved in the hot questioning about the Turks and the Armenian genocide, causing the Turks to hate Arnold. The Turks had burned all his books and movies. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** 3. World's response ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The world had soon recognized the acts of the Turkish as a genocide, the Armenians demanded revenge upon the Turks such as not allowing them to be apart of the United Nations. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Sinking of Lusitania__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> **Who** : <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Germans and Americans <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**What:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Germans had sunk the American Lusitania, a famous and modern warship. The sinking of the warship caused tension between Germany and America, it later caused America to declare a war upon Germany. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**When:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">1915 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Where:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Out in the sea, New York City to Liverpool was sunken by the Germans when it was coming towards Ireland <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**Why/Significance** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This was a big significance in WWI because it was what initally caused the huge tension and hatred between two largely known countries, America and Germany. This contributed to the war significantly. It caused the political government to get involved as well, for instance, President Wilson had strongly protested against the Germans, while State William Jennings had resigned. 114 innocent Americans had died, this had enraged America because they felt that the Germans had no right to attack their ship without fair warning.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Zimmerman Note__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Who: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Germany, Britain, Mexico, United States <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** What: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">British code breakers broke the code/secret message that the Germans were sending that had contained the idea of getting the US to become an ally. A war broke out because of this. Mexico was promised land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war in return for an attack on the US. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** When: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">February 1st, 1917 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Where: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Britain/North America <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Why/Significance: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The reason why the Zimmerman note was extremely significant was because it was what initially had caused the US to join in on the war, this was the official time where Germany was trying to ally with Mexico in order to attack the US. The United States were already angered with the attack on the Luisitania, and now it was the last straw. The United States finally entered the conflict to get revenge. Mexico was trying to get in good conditions with the US

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">** __Section 2 Terms__ ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Video Reflection__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">The video mainly was to explain how the US got into WWI in order to get a more democratic based government as well as they wanted to fight for what they had believed in. By doing so, the United States had soon become one of the leading powers in the world, for the US had fought for what they had believed in and didn't give up. The United States were now recognized as a nation that fights for what they believe in and for their freedom.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Uncle Sam Picture__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Treaty of Versailles__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1. **List and summarize the major points of the Treaty** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Major points of the treaty was to make Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Bulgaria pay the debt they had caused because of the world as well as admit to the fact that Germany had initially started the whole war. Another major point of the treaty was that it limited Germany's economic potential as well as military potential. The army was limited to 100 thousand men and the aircraft could only weigh about 100 tons. This had caused Germany to become financially unstable because in a addition to the war limitation the Great Depression had come along and combined with the already unstable German economy. Germany was to pay for the damages they had caused during the war. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2. **Predict how this treaty led to the rise of Hitler and ultimately WWII using evidence from the document** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I predict that the Germans were fed up with the mistreatment and decided that by rebelling, they will be able to regain their title as one of the most powerful nations in the world but this had caused Hitler to gain power and ultimately cause World War 2 because the nations are trying to keep the peace.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Photobucket__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**__Costs of WWI__** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

media type="custom" key="12500392"
 * __Animoto on WWI__**
 * __Reflection__**