chapter 25: World War I and the Russian revolution, 1914-1918
World War I, or The Great War, was a bloody stalemate that lasted nearly 5 years. Its causes were many: secret alliances, colonial competition, militarism and the glorification of war, and most of all nationalist tensions that had been building for nearly a century. When the archduke of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, a chain reaction was set off due to the two major alliances that had already been set in place. The war was fought on two major fronts- the Western Front and the East, with Germany fighting on both sides. As troops exhausted themselves from trenches and made very little headway on either side, nationalist fervor and glorification of war faded into disillusionment and despair. Russia, in a desperate situation and vastly unprepared, experienced a revolution which unseated the 300-year long Romanov dynasty and plunged Russia into a bloody 4 year long Civil War, which ended with a victory by the communist Red Army and the establishment of the Soviet Union.When the war was finally ended after the reluctant entry of the United States and an uneasy armistice, Germany was broken and humiliated. The resulting peace treaties that placed war guilt and forced reparation payments on Germany and its allies set the stage for the rise of fascism in Europe and the next world war.
Click below for the Ch 25 Spielvogel Slides
Click below for the Ch 25 Spielvogel Slides
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Click below for the Chapter 25 IDs (Spielvogel)
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Chapter 25 Reading Packet
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Click these links for fascinating photographs of WWI sites during the war, and what they look like today.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/aug/01/the-western-front-in-the-first-world-war-1917-1919-and-now-interactive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/the-somme-during-the-first-world-war-and-now-interactive
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2014/aug/01/the-western-front-in-the-first-world-war-1917-1919-and-now-interactive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/01/the-somme-during-the-first-world-war-and-now-interactive
Resources for Chapter 18 of Kagan's The Western Heritage are below
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World War I Reading Guides (match to Kagan's The Western Heritage, chapter 18)
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VIDEOS:
World War I in an hour!
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The Russian Revolution
COVID-19 Distance learning lectures
The Balkan Crises and the Bismarckian System: The lead-up to World War I
The Causes of World War I
The Course of WWI: Stalemate and Trench Warfare
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
The Russian Revolution and the birth of the USSR
The End of World War I and the Versailles Peace Treaty