Good Morning

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Good Morning

• Please have a seat of your choice and be ready to
  work when the bell rings.

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Should you always support an ally?

• World War I has begun. You are the leader of a
  European country and must decide what to do. Your
  nation is one of several that have agreed to
  support each other in the event of war. Some of
  your allies already have joined the fight. You
  oppose the thought of war and fear that joining
  will lead to even more lives lost. Yet, you
  believe in being loyal to your allies. You also
  worry that your rivals want to conquer all of
  Europe and if you dont join the war now, your
  country may end up having to defend itself.

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Discussion

• Should you always support a friend, no matter
  what he or she does?
• What might be the long-term consequences if
  refusing to help an ally?
• What are the various reasons countries go to war?

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Picking an alliance or staying neutral.

• You know who you work well with and who you have
  a difficult time getting things completed with.
• Choose your allies wisely or youre going to have
  a bad time.

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Benefits of being in an alliance

• You may work with each other on assignments.
• You may work with each other on the vocabulary
  quiz and mid-unit quiz.
• If all alliance members complete the assignment
  you will receive 10 extra points.
• Camaraderie

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Risks of being in an alliance

• You are responsible for the other members to
  complete their work.
• If a member does not complete their work you lose
  10 points, these are regular points, not extra
  credit.
• Friendships can be strained
• Shame

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Staying Neutral

• No risks or benefits
• You take care of your own work and will not have
  points taken away for not completing an
  assignment.
• You take all quizzes and exams on your own.

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• You will be declaring your alliance tomorrow.
• Think about your past experiences in this class
  and realize that you have the possibility of
  earning 110 extra credit points if all alliance
  members complete their work.
• On the flip side you could lose 110 points if one
  member of your alliance falters.
• That could be a grade changer.

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Learning Targets and Calendar
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World War I Vocabulary
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Triple Entente

• A military alliance between Great Britain,
  France, and Russia in the years proceeding World
  War I

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Triple Alliance

• A military alliance between Germany,
  Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years
  proceeding World War I

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Mobilization

• the act of assembling and making both troops and
  supplies ready for war

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The Allies

• The nations of Great Britain, France, and
  Russia, along with the other nations that fought
  on their side.

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The Central Powers

• The nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along
  with the other nations that fought on their side.

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Militarism

• A policy of glorifying military power and keeping
  a standing army always prepared for war.

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Propaganda

• Information or material spread to advance a cause
  or to damage an opponents cause

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Total War

• A conflict in which the participating countries
  devote all their resources to the war effort

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Chancellor

• the leader of the government or the main
  government minister of some countries

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
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Trench Warfare

• a method of fighting in which soldiers from
  opposing armies are in trenches facing each other

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Western Front

• The region of northern France where the forces of
  the Allies and the Central Powers battled each
  other

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Eastern Front

• The region along the German-Russian border where
  Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians,
  and Turks

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Submarine Warfare

• The use of submarines to sink enemy ships

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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• The use of submarines to sink without warning any
  ship (including neutral ships and unarmed
  passenger liners) found in an enemys waters

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Rationing

• The limiting of the amounts of goods people can
  buy often imposed by governments during wartime,
  when goods are in short supply

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Armistice

• An agreement to stop fighting

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Self Determination

• The freedom of a people to decide under what form
  of government they wish to have

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Treaty of Versailles

• The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied
  powers after World War I

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Wilsons Fourteen Points

• A series of proposals in which the U.S. president
  Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a
  lasting peace after World War I

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League of Nations

• An international association formed after World
  War I with the goal of keeping peace among
  nations

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Reparations

• money paid by a defeated country after a war, for
  all the deaths, damage etc it has caused

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War guilt clause

• Portion of the Versailles treaty that blames only
  Germany for causing the war. Major cause of the
  rise of national socialism in Germany (NAZI Party)

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Schlieffen Plan

• Germanys military plan at the outbreak of World
  War I, according to which German troops would
  rapidly defeat France and then move east to
  attack Russia

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Lusitania

• a British passenger ship that was sunk off the
  Irish coast in 1915 by the German navy during
  World War I. Some of the 1195 people who were
  killed were Americans, and this made many
  Americans feel that the US should enter the war
  against Germany.

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Zimmermann Note

• Dispatch that instructed the German Ambassador to
  Mexico to offer a military alliance if the US
  entered the War. And would offer aid to gain back
  Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico