10 Minutes to Prep!

• Draw cards for order of presentation
• Turn in slides to Lori
• Practice/prep notecards

Weapons Presentations
You must take notes on TWO weapons other than your own!  Make sure for each weapon, you have the following information:

1. What the weapon is, how it was used
2. Effect on soldiers
3. Effect on war/strategy/tactics
4. One example of a specific time it was used
5. Any other interesting details

GOAL FOR TODAY: Get your slides created. 

Reminders:

• Make sure that you are including ALL the required elements (see below)
• Remember to keep text MINIMAL on the slides. 
• Titles are good, short quotes or pieces of data are good, but slides should be mostly visual.

​Presentations: An effective presentation will include the following elements and answer the following questions:

1. Visuals- lots of them!
2. What does the weapon do? Describe and explain how it was used.
3. What are some of the problems with using this type of weapon in trench warfare?
4. What effect did this weapon have on the soldiers at the front?
5. What effect did this weapon have on the war in general?  With how war was fought?
6. Give one specific example of when this weapon was used, and the outcome of using this weapon.
7. List of sources (this should be a single slide at the end)

Today's Goal: Finish research notes for 2 sources (one primary).
If you finish with this early, talk with your partner/group, and make sure you have all the information you need for the presentation.  If you're not sure, look back at the handout linked on Google Classroom for what needs to be included!

Starter: AH Map (10 min)
Show overhead map of Austria-Hungary.  

1. What is the problem with this map?  
   
2. Who do you think wants to be a nation?  
   
3. If people are very patriotic, what is it called?  
   
4. Black Hand shows Nationalism at work.
   

Black Hand Review (5 min)

1. Go through Black Hand Constitution, have students share how close they were to the bylaws. (10 min)
   
2. Why do you think a nation would need a secret society?  Why would they hide?
   

Black Hand NOTES (10 min)

1. “National Defense”  (Black Hand) initially formed right after Austria annexed Bosnia (also has lots of Slavs) and Herzegovinia (illegal, but paid Turkey off to calm people down), by a group of leaders and generals. Serbia was afraid that they were next.
   
2. Effectiveness 🡪 1909 Austria pressures Serbian gov’t to stop their anti-Austrian insurrection. Russia not ready to support Serbia, so Serbia got rid of group. 
   
3. Many members left, and formed Black Hand
   
4. Goals:
   

1. Creation of a Greater Serbia
   
2.  Trained guerillas and saboteurs 
   
3. Arranged political murders.  
   
4. Extreme methods of achieving nationalist goals
   

Have students write “Nationalism” on powder keg.

1. Update for Alliances as well
   
2. Nationalism = nation is the primary form of id, nation is superior to others, often goes with an emphasis on national purity.
   

Powder Keg: Imperialism (I)     (10 min)

1. Class Notes: I = Imperialism 
   
2. Imperialism = Creation/maintenance of unequal economic, territorial, cultural relationship.  Usually in the form of an empire, where one nation dominates other nations.
   
3. Where?
   
   1. Show map of Imperialism in 1900
      
   2. Present in every continent.
      
4. Connection to WWI:  competition for colonies and resources to fuel industrialization
   
   1. Example: Berlin Conference
      
   2. 1884-1885
      
   3. Meeting between: Austria–Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, and the Ottoman Empire
      
   4. 1902- 90% of land under European control (show map)
      
   5. No African representation
      

Imperialism Motives (15 minutes)
Give students motives chart

1. Imperialism Definition: Imperialism is a policy or ideology of extending the rule or authority of a country over other countries and people, often by military force or by gaining political and economic control.  This is often accompanied by forced cultural assimilation and exploitation of a local majority by a foreign minority.
   
2. Definition for each motive
   
   1. Economic- Desire to make money, to expand and control foreign trade, to create new markets for products, to acquire raw materials and cheap labor, to compete for investments and resources, and to export industrial technology and transportation methods.
      
   2. Political- Motives were based on a nation’s desire to gain power, to compete with other European countries, to expand territory, to exercise military force, to gain prestige by winning colonies and to boost national pride and security.
      
   3. Ideological- Idea that white men, “civilized” people have a duty to civilize those in other cultures and parts of the world.  Belief that the white race was superior, other cultures were “primitive,” Europeans should “civilize” peoples in other parts of the world, great nations should have empires, and only the strongest nations will survive.
      
   4. Religious- Motives included the desire to spread Christianity, to protect European missionaries in other lands, to spread European values and moral beliefs, to educate peoples of other cultures, and to end the slave trade in Africa.
      
   5. Exploratory- Motives were based on the desire to explore “unknown” or uncharted territory, to conduct scientific research, to conduct medical searches for the causes and treatment of diseases, to go on an adventure, and to investigate “unknown” lands and cultures.
      

 (20 min)

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