WW1

For the official program	For the international Section
August 1914 : Outbreak of the war	August 1914 : DORA*
September 1914 : Battle of the Marne	December 1914 : German raid on Scarborough
Late 1914- Early 1918 : Stalemate
From April 1915 : Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire	April 1915 : Gallipoli Battle
February-December 1916 : Battle of Verdun	1916 : Military Service Act*
	July- November 1916 : Battle of the Somme
February and October 1917 : Russian revolutions December 1917 : Russian Armistice	April 1917 : The United States declared war on Germany
November 1918 : Revolutions in Austria-Hungary and in Germany 11 November 1918 : Armistice : End of WW1
June 1919 : Treaty of Versailles	1919 : Right to vote for women over 30 y.o. in the UK

                                                                                  25 April : ANZAC day

DORA : Defense Of the Realm Act : law passed in August 1914 to limit freedoms in the UK because of the War  

Military Service Act : Before that law in the UK, men had to enlist (= to be volunteer) to become soldier

Propaganda poster : the different targets of propapanda poster (to recruit soldiers [Until 1916] + to convince people that the it is a just war + to encourage people  to give money to pay wepons  and (especially for  women) to work in war factories

What you must know :

-          The different phases of WW1

-          Vocabulary to describe trenches + what were the conditions of life in the trenches

-          To explain why WWI was a ‘total war’

-          To explain why the Home front played an important role in the war

-          The number of soldiers killed during WW1, Which countries had the most casualties

-          The new map of Europe in 1919 : new frontiers of Germany, new countries

-          Why the treaty of Versailles was considered as a humiliation by Germany

-          Who Lenin, Clemenceau, Wilson, Lloyd George were.

Testimonies about WW1:

-          An example of a soldier’s diary :  Billy Congreve

-          Examples of novels  about World War I :

o   Erich Maria Remarque, All quiet on the Western Front (1929)

o   Humphrey COBB, Path of Glory, (1937)

-          Examples of a film  about World War I :Paths of Glory (1957=