Warm Up You have 20 minutes to finish

Warm Up • You have 20 minutes to finish your poster • When you’re done, put your poster on the table by the promethean • Grab the chart from my table and work on that

Agenda and Announcement • Agenda • • Warm Up: finish posters Imperialist Presidents Notes: WW 1 Breaking News! • Announcements • I’ll be after school on Thursday • Unit 4 assessment/IDS March 6

Imperialist Presidents

Unit 4: Imperialism and WW 1

European Causes of WW 1 • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Se. ZMQo. F 2 QR 0 • Name the 3 big ideas that spread across Europe. • How does militarism impact countries and diplomatic relationships? • What were the names of the two alliances and who belonged to each? • What was the spark of WW 1 in Europe? • What geographic location was the western front in? • What kind of war was fought here? What were the conditions? • What new inventions were used?

Long Term Causes M A Militarism – belief that a nation needs a large military Alliances – nations in Europe began to align and create a tangled web

I Imperialism – desire to take over and controlling other nations creates competition N Nationalism – prove their nations were the best; some groups want freedom

The Spark that Caused the War June 28, 1914 – Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated by a Serb

What about the US?

What about the US? Non-Interventionists Pro-War • Stay isolationist • War is being fought an ocean away • We trade with both sides • We don’t want to fight a war in the US • We should fight in the war… • …not sure on what side though • We should defend democracy

Breaking News! US Enters WW 1!