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Activities |
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| To what extent did
the alliance system cause the First World War? |
Research Essay 1. This essay will
be set with a two week deadline at the beginning of the topic. |
Student Essays
Rachel Wilcox
in 2001
Matthew Arscott
in 2004
Reading list demonstates the wide
range of resources available in the IST Media Centre.
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| How can we begin to explain the causes of
the First World War? |
Lecture and note making activity
Watch a DVD from the BBC Great War series. Episode 2.
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Download the notes
from the lesson - Outlining the causes of the First World War |
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| BBC -
The Great War and BBC
Website on World War 1. |
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| What were the origins of the First World
War?
How do we make notes on a detailed, relatively long article? |
Reading and note making activity. |
Henig, R., The Origins of
the First World War Lancaster |
| What were the long-term causes of the
war?
How did the alliance system come about?
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Read Darby (22-41) and make notes in
preparation for your essay. |
Darby, G. - Origins of the First World
War. |
| What were the short term causes of the
war?
Why did the principal sources of tension between 1905 and 1913
not lead to war?
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Video Days
that Shook the World episode 2, assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
Reading and notes Darby
(46-57)
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| See the BBC website
for further details and here
for the highlights. |
Darby, G. - Origins of the First World
War.
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| Who was responsible for the outbreak of
war in 1914? |
Role Play.
Students become prosecution lawyers with the job of proving that
one of the Great Powers was responsible for starting the Great War.
They write up their case for each other to use as preparation of an
essay on the question. |
Darby, G. - Origins of the First World
War. (66-84)
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| What is the 'Fischer Thesis'? |
Lecture on the historiography of the
First World War.
Read Culpin and Henig and Darby and Complete the task on page 97
of Darby.
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Culpin and Henig, Modern Europe 1870-1945 Chapter 8.
Darby, G. - Origins of the First World
War. (88-98)
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Download the notes
from the lesson - Responsibility - The Historiographical Debate |
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