Paragraph 1.1 - The Armed Peace - 2022

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This lesson contains 16 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.

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Paragraph 1.1 - The Armed Peace

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At the end of the lesson you will know/be able to…

  • You can explain what La Belle Époque was
  • You can name and explain the four MAIN causes of WWI
  • You can give a developed and well-argued answer to the question which of the causes was the greatest contributor to WWI 

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La Belle Epoque
What feeling do get when you see the following scene (mainly focus on the surroundings, not the dialogue)? 

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Slide 4 - Video

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Pieces are there for another disaster


  • Militarism
  • Alliances
  • Imperialism
  • Nationalism

MAIN

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Nationalism in Germany 

  • Zollverein (1818) (no more paying dues (taxes))
  • Railways

  • Collecting of fairytales (brothers Grimm, 1812)
  • Making of dictionaries (1838)

  • Unification of Germany (1871)
  • In economics
In culture
In politics


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Militarism

  • Very militaristic
  • Prussia leading the unification
  • Schleswig-Holstein (1848)
  • The war of 1870-1 with France
Prussia

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Alliances at work

  • Number 1: Read ‘Nation states and nationalism’ (TB p.8) and make exercise 3 (WB p.6)
  • Number 2: Read ‘The German colonial dream’ (TB p. 9) and make exercise 4 b and 5 (WB p. 6-7)
  • Number 3: Read ‘Militarism and powerful alliances’ (TB p.9) and exercise 6 and 7 (WB p. 7)
  • Finished before the others? Read the remainder of paragraph 1.1 and make exercise 9 (WB p.8)
  • Finished that too? Copy the work from the other groups :D 



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Homework 
Decide which of the four MAIN causes was, according to you as a group, the greatest contributor to WWI?

Answer the question posed plus explanation as to why you think this is the greatest contributor to WWI? Hand in via this Lesson Up

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Which of the four MAIN causes was, according to you, the greatest contributor to WWI? Give at least one argument

Slide 16 - Open question