Paragraph 1.1 - The Armed Peace - 2022

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Paragraph 1.1 - The Armed Peace

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 

La Belle Epoque

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

Pieces are there for another disaster

• Militarism
  
• Alliances
  
• Imperialism
  
• Nationalism
  

MAIN

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

Militarism

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

Prussia

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 

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

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