CAUSES EVENTS AND EFFECTS OF WWI GRADE BREAKDOWN

CAUSES, EVENTS, AND EFFECTS OF WWI

GRADE BREAKDOWN Engagement – 15% In Class Assignments – 15% Essays – 20% Participation – 20% Presentations – 30%

QUESTION

QUESTION What is history for?

WHAT IS HISTORY FOR? https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=h. LE-5 El. Gl. PM

QUESTION

QUESTION Is war a part of human nature?

WAR AND HUMAN NATURE “So Hobbes seems to be right that life in the “state of nature” was probably…” “It is possible that aggression is an. . . ” “Insofar as genes want anything, they want. . . ” “Soldiers achieve a sort of transcendence through fighting, by becoming part of something. . . ”

CRASH COURSE: WAR AND HUMAN NATURE https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=2 NIgq. S 47 m 5 k&list=PL 8 d. Puua. Lj Xt. Njasccl. Wajp. ONGX 3 zo. Y 4 M&index=4

CAUSES, EVENTS, AND EFFECTS OF WWI

QUESTION

QUESTION Is it possible that war have had a positive effect on human development?

WAR AND CIVILIZATION “War shaped city states both physically and politically, but city states also shaped…” “So empires have a ceaseless urge to get…” “In short, war and the state. . . ” “So I’d argue that it’s not the costs of going to war that has made peace so attractive. . . ” “Compared to earlier times, wars between major powers are. . . ”

WAR AND CIVILIZATION https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=jd. VLAG_pt. QM

IMPACT OF IMPERIALISM

VOCABULARY: IMPERIALISM “the actions by which one nation is able to control other usually smaller or weaker nations” (merriamwebster. com)

VOCABULARY: NATIONALISM “Loyalty and devotion to a nation especially as expressed in a glorifying of one nation above all others and a stressing of the promotion of its culture and interests” (Merriamwebster. com)

VOCABULARY: LIBERALISM “a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom” (Merriamwebster. com)

VOCABULARY: CONSERVATISM “a political belief supporting established institutions and customs and preferring gradual development to sudden change” (Merriamwebster. com)

QUESTION

QUESTION Who is considered the “father” of modern liberalism?

JOHN LOCKE

VOCABULARY: CONSTITUTIONALISM “the belief that a government should be based on a constitution” (Merriamwebster. com)

VOCABULARY: REPUBLIC “a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen” (Merriamwebster. com)

VOCABULARY: REALPOLITIK “a system of politics based on a country's situation and its needs rather than on ideas about what is morally right and wrong” (Merriamwebster. com)

CAUSES, EVENTS, AND EFFECTS OF WWI

CRASH COURSE: NATIONALISM “Nationalism was a…” “A nation-state involves a centralized government. . . ” “Nations often construct themselves in opposition to. . . ” “In Japan, nationalism meant. . . ” [*Industrial Revolution] “Nationalism has a habit of. . . ” *Nationalism/imperialism]

CRASH COURSE: NATIONALISM https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Nosq 94 o. Cl_M

IMPERIALISM FILL IN THE BLANK “…The British found something the Chinese would buy: ______” “But in the second half of the nineteenth century, Europe suddenly and spectacularly succeeded. . . ” “European imperialism involved a lot of fighting and. . . ” “But in general, they preferred to rule. . . ” “Sometimes African rulers were so good at adapting European technology…”

CRASH COURSE: IMPERIALISM https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=al. Jalt. Umr. Go