WORLD WAR I

Topics: the Dual Alliance, war and national expansion, the sinking of the Lusitania, relations between Germany and Great Britain, Haig’s "Features of the War," the Battle of the Somme, war in the industrial age, the use of chemical weapons, and the reasons for Germany’s defeat. Assessment questions involve asking students to examine British and American involvement in the war, as well as the overall factors that caused Europe to go to war in 1914.