Grade 8 Spring — The 20th-Century World, the Long Civil Rights Movement as Multi-Movement Struggle, and a Civics Deep-Dive (US + Global 1898–Present, K-8 History Capstone)
History · HIS
G8
hist.g8.s.his.world_war_one_1914_1918
Analyze World War I 1914-1918: MAIN causes; US entry April 6 1917; Harlem Hellfighters; Treaty of Versailles; Wilson 14 Points; League of Nations; postwar disillusionment
Trace WWI causes (MAIN: Militarism + Alliances + Imperialism + Nationalism); Sarajevo June 28 1914; trench warfare + ~17M dead; US entry April 6 1917 (Lusitania 1915 + Zimmermann telegram + unrestricted submarine warfare); Harlem Hellfighters 369th Infantry; Wilson 14 Points Jan 8 1918; Treaty of Versailles June 28 1919 War Guilt Article 231; League of Nations + US Senate rejection (Lodge Reservations Mar 19 1920); postwar disillusionment (Hemingway + Fitzgerald + Owen 'Dulce et Decorum Est'); Spanish flu pandemic 1918-19 50M+ dead.
Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
50
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Successors
No declared successors.
Common misconceptions
- Treating WWI causes as Sarajevo-only — MAIN long-term causes preceded and would have produced war regardless; Sarajevo was trigger not cause
- Treating Treaty of Versailles as solely punishing Germany — also redrew Eastern Europe + Middle East (Sykes-Picot 1916) + ended Ottoman + Austro-Hungarian + Russian empires
- Forgetting US Senate rejection of League of Nations was bipartisan + ideological (Article X collective-security commitment)