WW I, CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES, AND ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

At what age . . .

There are many topics that we don’t want young children to know about and there are many thing we don’t want them to be doing. What things do we not want young people

to know about? What things do we not want young people

to do? Think about ideas such as: death, drugs, how

babies are made, war, bad things/people in the world, violence, etc. . .

At what age. . .

Age Can Know About Can Do (if applicable)

4

8

12

16

20

Changing Gears!

We’ll come back to that but we’re going to take a break to talk about World War I

What started it?

First, before anything ever happened, most of the major powers of the world were trying to expand. Because of this they had lots of smaller

countries that they vowed to “protect” The major powers also signed treaties

with each other and promised to defend each other if either one was attacked.

What started it?

It worked like a chain: Serbia < Russia < Britain

Therefore, Britain was bound to defend Serbia if anything ever happened to Serbia

Scenario: Little brother in the lunch room.

Hint: something happened to Serbia

The War Effort – Propaganda

“We teach you to run!”

Big Questions:

What is the goal of these posters?

Do these posters work?

Do we see things like this today?

War Recruiting Today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzdZqSVbJ4

Now To Our Focus:

3.01 Examine controversial issues by: sharing and evaluating initial personal

response. researching and summarizing printed data. compiling personal responses and

researched data to organize the argument. presenting data in such forms as a graphic,

an essay, a speech.

World War I Data

Total Cost in US Dollars

22,625,253,000

Total Cost from Allied Nations

125,690,477,000

Total US Deaths

57,476

Durham’s Population approx. 230,000

Average Age of Soldier

25Although men were recruited as young as

16

Average age in the Vietnam War was 19

Total US Deaths from Suicide

967

The US was only in the war for one year.

Our Current War: Iraqi Freedom

Out of 4,059 deaths:

100% under 35

50% under 24

Take a minute to process. . .

Do we see posters or commercials with this information? Why not?

What do we learn from this data?

WW I

One of the first modern wars Lots of new ways to kill people: machine

guns, tanks, gas, bombs, etc.

WW 1 – Trench Warfare

The Western Front battles mainly used trench warfare

Author – Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque

Originally named Erich Paul Remark German born At 18 he joined the German Army to

fight in World War I Was badly injured by shrapnel a year later

and spent the rest of the war in a military hospital

Wrote All Quiet . . . ten years later

German Reception of the Novel At first the novel was widely read When the Nazis took power they claimed

that the book was anti-German propaganda and had all of Remarque’s books burned

Remarque had to flee Germany in order to save his own life His sister stayed and was executed