using pages 227-231 in your text to take notes on the following questions: 

• What prompted the US to enter WWI?
• In what was was WWI a "total war"?
• What role did women play in WWI?

Video we watched in class: 

Homework for next class: Read pages 239-241, prepare for the spiral check and quiz next class

Go to the google classroom page to complete the google doc for your research. 

Here is a copy of the questions you need to research and the different topics: 
Heavy Artillery and Big Bertha:
Poison Gas:
Sea Mines:
Airplanes and Zeppelins:
The Machine Gun:
    

1.       What is the name of your weapon?

2.       What was the year it was invented?

3.       Who invented the weapon and/or what country first developed it?

4.       Describe the weapon.

5.       How was it used during the war?

6.       What did the weapon do to the enemy?

using pages 221to 226 in your textbook, record key information on the following topics: 

• 1st battle of the Marne
• trench warfare
• the western front
• the eastern front
• russia struggles

1. Austria-Hungary (A-H) responds to assassination with ultimatum for Serbia:
   1. Accept full responsibility
   2. Right to prosecute conspirators in A-H
   3. Right to police anti-Austrian groups in Serbia

• Serbia responds with agreement to the first 2 but not the right to police but offers to have terms settled by an international conference

1. Germany sends A-H a “blank check” offers support
2. A-H declares war on Serbia
3. Russia mobilizes troops on the A-H Border and German Border, Germany perceives this as an act of war
4. Germany sends ultimatum requiring free passage through Belgium, Belgium deies request
5. Germany declares war on France
6. Great Britain declares war on Germany because of treaty with Belgium 

ALLIES: 
GREAT BRITAIN
FRANCE
RUSSIA
JAPAN
ITALY
BELGIUM
​SERBIA

CENTRAL POWERS: 
GERMANY
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
BULGARIA

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Using your textbook (page 215-217 starting with the Crisis in the Balkans section) create a timeline of events.

Using your book, find out the countries that were part of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. Color the map to represent these alliance. Label all the countries that were involved.