Student Learning Map

  • Topic:World War I Period
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:8
  • Grade(s):11
Key Learning: The United States entry into World War I ended our role as a neutral nation and accelerated America's emergence as a world power.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How did the US entry into WWI change our foreign policy and increase our involvement in World Affairs?
   
Concept: Causes and main events
Concept: US entry and involvement
Concept: Effects of WWI and the Treaty of Versailles
Lesson Essential Question(s):

What were the causes of World War I? 2.How did Europe become a "powder keg"? 3. Why did the combatants get involved in trench warfare? (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why did the United States change from a policy of neutrality to involvement in I917? How did the United States mobilize for war? How did new weapons and tactics change warfare? How did the arrival of American troops turn the tide of war in favor of the A (A)

Lesson Essential Question(s):

1. How did the war affect government control of the economy, society and civil rights? 2.What were Wilson's Fourteen Points? 3.Why did the United States reject the Treaty of Versailles? ( A, E/R ) 4.What was the lasting impact of the failure of Treaty? ( E/R

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Additional Info:

History Alive, unitedstreaming.com, word walls, audio-visual materials, Skillbuilder:maps, reading study guides,graphs, charts, workbook exercises, timeline from Chapter 11 in the Americans.

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • Nationalism -
  • War Industries Board -
  • British Blockade -
  • Espionage and Sedition Acts -
  • imperialism -
  • U-Boat warfare -
  • Lusitania -
  • propaganda -
  • militarism -
  • Wilson's Fourteen Points -
  • propaganda -
  • Allies -
  • Central Powers -
  • Zimmerman note -
  • League of Nations -
  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand -
  • Treaty of Versailles -
  • Selective Service Act -
  • mass production -
  • Von Schlieffen plan -
  • Georges Clemenceau -
  • David Lloyd George -
  • convoy system -
  • trench warfare -
  • no man's land. -
  • American Expeditionary Forces -
  • reparartions -
  • war guilt clause -
  • General J.J. Pershing -
  • Henry Cabot Lodge. -
  • Second Battle of the Marne -
  • Armistice -