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1 COURSE OUTLINE World History Organizer Periodization 1: unit 11: World War I and the Russian Revolution Foundations (5,000 BCE-600 CE). unit 1: River Valley & The Big Picture: Classical Civilizations From the 1880s to 1914, tensions increases among European nations due to imperial competition, advanced militaries, and powerful feelings of nationalism, unit 2: Greece & Rome especially among Serbs in the Balkans. The outbreak of war between Serbia and Austria-Hungary triggered a network of European alliances and the beginning of the first World War between the Central Powers and the Allied Powers. This Great War was unlike any previous European conflict. Troops Periodization 2: fought with advanced new weapons like machine guns and used new strategies to fight like trench warfare.

2 Nations committed to total war and Post-Classical Era (600-1450). converted all their nation's resources to winning the war. During the war, Russia was plagued by a series of economic and political problems. In 1917, unit 3: Islam & Africa Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrew the government of Russia and created the world's first communist nation, the Soviet Union. By 1919, the unit 4: Byzantine Empire & the Middle Ages Allies had won and signed the Treaty of Versailles bringing an end to the war. The peacemakers created a League of Nations to prevent future wars, unit 5: Americas, China, but brutally punished Germany and inadvertently created conditions that would lead to another world war in 1939.

3 & the Mongols Homework unit Pacing: (Answer Qs on Back). Key Terms and Phrases: Periodization 3: Transition to 3/10 Periodization Preview and the the Modern World (1450-1750) Causes of World War I 3/10 Read unit 6: The Renaissance 1. Militarism 14. Zimmerman Telegram & Protestant Reformation 3/11 The Battlefront of World War I 2. Triple Alliance 15. Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points unit 7: Exploration & Scientific 3/12 The Home Front of World War I 3/12 Read 3. Triple Entente 16. Treaty of Versailles Revolution 3/13 The Russian Revolution 3/13 Read 4. Nationalism 17. Reparations Periodization 4: 3/14 The Russian Revolution & Treaty of Versailles 5. The Balkans 18. Mandate System Early Modern Era (1750-1914) 3/17 Treaty of Versailles & Impact of WWI 3/14 Read unit 8: The Middle East, Japan, & 6.

4 Archduke Franz Ferdinand 19. Czar Nicholas II (Romanovs). **Midterm Review** 3/17 Read China 7. Central Powers/Allied Powers 20. Vladimir Lenin unit 9: Enlightenment, Revolutions, & 3/18 Midterm Assessment 8. Total War 21. Bolsheviks Napoleon 3/17 Complete 3/21-4/1: 9. Battlefront 22. Communism unit 10: Industrial Revolution &. Imperialism unit 11 Organizer 10. Trench Warfare 23. Soviet Union (USSR). Periodization 5: 11. Battle of Verdun 24. Joseph Stalin The World at War (1914-1945) 12. Home Front 25. Stalin's Five Year Plans unit 11: World War I & 3/31 SCIENCE GATEWAY 13. Unrestricted Submarine the Russian Revolution 4/2- SOCIAL STUDIES GATEWAY Warfare unit 12: World War II. Essential Questions: AKS.

5 Periodization 6: 1. Explain how militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism led to the outbreak of World War I in 1914/ AKS 45a th Late 20 Century (1945-Present) AKS 45b unit 13: The Cold War 2. How did total war impact soldiers on the battlefront and civilians on the home front? AKS 45c unit 14: Decolonization 3. (a) What were the important provisions of the Treaty of Versailles? (b) How did the Treaty of Versailles help lead to conditions for AKS 45d & Globalization a second World War? AKS 46b 4. (a) What led to the Russian Revolution in 1917? (b)What were the effects of the revolution on Russia? Course Website: unit 11 Reading Guide World War I and the Russian Revolution Go to , click Activity Center and find the Audio Downloads link to listen to each chapter.

6 After reading the chapters, go to Review Center and take the Chapter Quizzes and look at the Flip Cards to review the content from the book. Chapter 29, Section 1. 1. What were three causes of tension Europe before World War I? 2. Who were members of the Triple Alliance? Who were members of the Triple Entente? 3. What happened to Archduke Franz Ferdinand when he visited Serbia? Chapter 29, Section 2. 4. Who was a member of the Central Powers? The Allies? 5. What was Germany's plan to have a six-week war? Did it work? 6. What are the Eastern and Western Front? Where was the Battle of Verdun? Chapter 29, Section 3. 7. Why did the Russians make a separate peace with Germany? 8. What does it mean to wage a total war?

7 9. What were two results of World War I? Chapter 29, Section 4. 10. Who is the author of the Fourteen Points? What was their purpose? 11. Why did an observer call the Treaty of Versailles a "peace built on quicksand?". 12. How did the other countries treat Germany at the Paris peace conference? Chapter 30, Section 1. 13. Why were many Russians unhappy with Czar Nicholas II? 14. Who was the leader of the radical Bolsheviks? What did they want to accomplish? 15. Why was there a civil war in Russia after 1917? Who was involved?