WH -- WWI OVERVIEW

Multiple Choice

While the Industrial Revolution brought tremendous progress – technological, social, and political – which response most clearly identifies one of the problems with all of this change?

• As globalization increased, people became less loyal to their own nations, weakening many states.

• The automation that came with the factory system created a huge burden of unemployment worldwide.

• The advantages did not reach everyone, so many parts of the world became vulnerable to conquest by newly powerful nations.

• Increased production in many parts of the world meant fewer products had to shipped, damaging existing systems of production and distribution.

Multiple Choice

Despite the many problems in the world going on at the eve of the First World War in 1914, what were some of the positive developments that had occurred by this time?

• Russia had become more stable, and the advent of television made it easier to keep people informed.

• Gender equality and racial equality were now recognized by law in most places.

• American women now had the vote, and colonialism was for the most part at an end.

• More children were in school, and working conditions had been improved.

Multiple Choice

The First World War has been described as a “threshold event.” Which response best describes the term “threshold event”?

• Any historical event that leads to a decrease in the human population

• An era when one species has a measurable effect on the earth’s environment

• A time in history when political change affects more than half of the world population

• A moment in which something significant changes in world history

Open Ended

EXIT TICKET -- What were the most important developments of WWI? Why?