THE GREAT WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

 

IMPORTANT VOCABULARY

 

Russo-Turkish War (1877)

Congress of Berlin (1878)

First and Second Balkan Wars (1912-1913)

Young Turks

Black Hand

Pan Slavism

Gavrilo Princip

Triple Alliance

Triple Entente

Ultimatum

Lusitania

Zimmerman Telegram

“blank check”

Schlieffen Plan

Elan

Trench warfare

New weapons

Propaganda

Total war

Fourteen Points

League of Nations

“self determination”

Article 231 of Versailles Treaty

Mandates

Alsace-Lorraine

Saar Basin

Polish Corridor

Georges Clemenceau

Woodrow Wilson

David Lloyd George

Treaty of Brest Litovsk

“Big Four”

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 2

 

WWI group project assigned

 

Fay Thesis.pdf

WWI As Third Balkan War.pdf

GREAT ONLINE READING:  Was Germany Guilty?

 

Trench Warfare:

 

 

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 

 

TOPIC:  Pan-Slavism and Serbian nationalism... the long view of Serbian Nationalism...

 

• Identify and analyze the political and cultural issues in the debate over Pan-Slavism (1992 DBQ).
• How has Serbain nationalism impacted the Balkans since World War I?
• What role did Serbian nationalism play in the ethnic cleansing in the 1990's?

 

Students will read the DBQ, identify directive and operative words in the question, then use them as guides to create groups that will be the basis for a thesis.

 

After DBQ discussion... we will examine where Serbian nationalism takes us in history....

 

BBC Overview of Yugoslavia

 

BBC Milosevic Timeline 

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 

 

Project Work Day:

 

Students can either:

 

1. Work on group project (video due Monday)

2.  Read DBQ that we will attack tomorrow

3.  Begin Russian Rev readings due next Thursday (sent to students via email)

 

HW:  Be sure you have read and analyzed the Alsace Lorraine DBQ.  We will examine it for bias/POV tomorrow and develop thesis statements. 

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 8

 

TOPIC:  Alsace Lorraine DBQ analysis

 

After DBQ students will read the Fourteen Points and Excerpts from the Treaty of Versailles.

 

 

 FRIDAY, MARCH 9

 

TOPIC:  Wilson's Fourteen Points & Treaty of Versailles

 

Objectives:

• Describe the main points of the Treaty of Versailles and Wilson's Fourteen Points.
• Discuss the weaknesses of the Treaty of Versailles and the idealism in Wilson's Fourteen Points.
• Explain the effect of WWI on the Middle East. 

 

Mini Lecture:  The War's End   The End of the War to End All Wars.ppt

 

Discussion:  Treaty of Versailles and Fourteen Points

 

HANDOUT:  Reactions to the Treaty of Versailles:  Document 1 The German Reply     Document 2 Speech on the Treaty of Versailles

 

      

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 13

 

World War I QUIZ

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14

 

Group debates:  Who is to blame for beginning and continuing World War I?

 

 

              REWORKED SCHEDULE BELOW!!!!             

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 20

 

TOPIC:  1905 Revolution and February Revolution (Outbreak and Moderate Stages)

 

• What were the social, economic, and political causes of the 1905 Revolution?  Describe the immediate political results.
• Describe the various political factions/revolutionary groups that came into being after 1905.  Summarize their platforms. 
• Differentiate between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.  Explain why Lenin's program was so appealing to Russians?
• Create a timeline of events leading to the 1917 October Revolution.

 

ACTUAL AP FREE REPSONSE QUESTIONS:

 

Describe and analyze the long-term social and economic trends in the period 1860 to 1917 that

prepared the ground for revolution in Russia.

(1995)

 

“The czarist regime fell in 1917 because it had permitted tremendous change and progress in

some areas while trying to maintain a political order that had outlived its time.”

Assess the validity of this statement as an explanation of the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917.

(1994)

 

Describe and analyze the long-term social and economic trends in the period 1860 to 1917 that

prepared the ground for revolution in Russia.

(1995)

 

 

HW:  Primary Source:  What is to be Done?

 

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

 

TOPIC:  The Russian Revolution:   October 1917

 

• What events lead to the Bolsheviks Revolution?
• Apply the events of the French Revolution to the Crane Brinton model of revolutions.
• To what extent does the Russian Revolution abide by Marxist theory?  Explain your answer.
• Why might the "revolution" be considered an "armed minority action?"

 

 

 

 

 Lecture 5: The Russian Revolution, Feb - Oct 1917 & Lecture 6: Red October and the Bolshevik Coup

 

Small group discussion based on the homework reading.

 

•Russian Revolutions 1917

•Describe the social conditions in Russia around February 1917. How did these conditions make Russia ripe for revolution?

•To what extent were the roots of the Febraury1917 Revolution social? To what extent were the roots of revolution political?

•To what extent was Nicholas personally responsible for the downfall of autocracy in Russia?

•Compare and contrast the ideals/programs of Lenin, Kornilov, and Kerensky.

•How did the goals of the Provisional Government differ from those of the Soviets?

•Why did the Lenin/Bolshevik program appeal to Russians?

•What were the July Days? What was the outcome?

•How did the political/social climate in Russia change by late September 1917?

•How did the Central Committee capitalize on this situation?

•Describe the course of the October Revolution 1917. Provide details that explain why some might call it “anti climactic.”

•Why did the author call the revolution “a minority military action?”

•What did Lenin mean when he said that the Party “found power lying in the streets and simply picked it up?”

•How important was Lenin to the revolution?

•How important was the war to the revolution?

•Why does the author say the Provisional Government had little chance at success?

•What does the author mean when he says that the idea of Red October being a “revolution from below” is a historic myth?

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 22

 

TOPIC:  Aftermath of the Revolution

 

HANDOUT:  Evaluating the October Rev.doc

 

 

You can use iTunesU to build up your understanding of the Russian Revolution.  I would suggest going to iTunes and searching for:

Brown University The Russian Revolution The Choices Program (short bits of useful details from the mouth of Brown professors)

Open Yale Courses European Civilization John Merriman (track 19 is focused on the Russian Revolution, Merriman is an awesome professor, 46 minute lecture worth listening to.  Download it to your ipod, go for a nice jog, exercise your body and mind, it's good for you)

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 

 

TOPIC:  Stalin's Rise to Power

 

ACTUAL AP FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS:

 

A.  Compare the economic roles of the state under 17th century mercantilism and 20th century

communism. Illustrate your answer with reference to the economic system of France during

Louis XIV’s reign under Colbert and of the Soviet Union under Stalin.

(1982)

 

B.  Compare and contrast the extent to which Catherine the Great and Joseph Stalin were

“Westernizers.”

(2004)

 

C.  “Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.”

Evaluate this statement with regard to the English Revolution (1640-1660), [the French

Revolution (1789-1815)], and the Russian Revolution (1917-1939).

(1980)

 

D.  Compare and contrast the French Jacobins' use of state power to achieve revolutionary goals

during the Terror (1793-1794) with Stalin's use of state power to achieve revolutionary goals in

the Soviet Union during the period 1928 to 1939.

(2004)

 

E.  “Repeatedly in the course of modern European history a single state has threatened the balance

of power; these threats have been met by coalitions of powers which have dissolved when the

threats were contained.”  Discuss this statement with regard to France under Louis XIV and the Soviet Union under

Stalin, and show how it would apply in each case.  (1975)

 

F.  Assess the extent to which the economic and political ideals of Karl Marx were realized in postrevolutionary Russia in the period from 1917 to 1939. (2005)

 

G.  Analyze the ways in which the policies of Joseph Stalin transformed the policies of Vladimir Lenin.  (2011)

 

 

LESSONS WE MIGHT NOT GET TO 1: 

 

TOPIC:  The Easter Rising and the Creation of Ireland

 

The Irish Rebellion!  1916 Easter Rising