Image Source - ​Street artist unveils First World War mural in Shoreditch to mark Remembrance Day

​​1914-1919
The Great War

Skill Focus
Cause and Effect

Compelling Question
How do global struggles for power shape society?

Essential Lessons
​World War I
​(1914-1919)
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Learning Target:
I am beginning to understand the most significant factors that led to World War I

Essential Lessons are content lessons that are required by all students to complete. 

M.A.I.N
​Causes of World War I

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand ​(1914)

Readings from the Trenches

Conscription - Military Drafts

U.S. Entry into World War I
​(1917)

Music as Propaganda

Middle East:
Sykes-Picot Agreement ​(1916)
Balfour Declaration (1917)

Pandemic of 1918

Treaty of Versailles & Appeasement (1919)

Helpful Lessons
World War I

Helpful Lessons can help you better understand different aspects of World War I.
​These Lessons are not mandatory but would add to your learning about this time period. 

Film Study - 1917

Additional Sources

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