PREP

Topics to Know:

• Causes of WWI—proximate and distant cause(s)
• Why the “Powder Keg” metaphor?
• Allied (Entente) forces?
• Central Powers?
• Can you identify the western and eastern fronts on a map?
• Woodrow Wilson: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
• Why did the U.S. sympathize with England?
• Lusitania?
• The Zimmerman telegram (note)
• How were troops mobilized
• Life in the trenches
• Battles: Verdun, Somme, etc. Note: Only those discussed in class
• The War at Home: women and the war, the 19^th amendment, the Espionage and Sedition Acts
• Why “Total War?”
• Schlieffen Plan?
• The Paris Peace Treaty and “The Big Four”
• The Treaty of Versailles

READINGS

• Article “Aftermath of the War”
• Wilson’s 14 Points
• Chapter 44: World War I and its Disputed Settlements
• “War is the Health of the State”