Today's Agenda

CreateLearning Target:
I can describe the events that led the United States into World War I, & I can analyze the war’s impact on American society.

Critical Vocabulary: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Central Powers, Allied Powers, U-boat, Lusitania, Sussex Ultimatum, Election of 1916, Charles Evans Hughes, “peace without victory,” unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman Telegram, Committee on Public Information, George Creel, Food Administration, Herbert Hoover, Fuel Administration, War Industries Board, Bernard Baruch, National War Labor Board, Espionage Act of 1917, Sedition Act of 1918, Industrial Workers of the World, Eugene V. Debs, William D. Haywood, Schenck v. U.S., Oliver Wendell Holmes, “clear and present danger,” American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing, “doughboys,” Battle of the Argonne Forest, Fourteen Points Address, Big Four, League of Nations, League Covenant, collective security, “war-guilt” clause, reparations, Treaty of Versailles, Henry Cabot Lodge, “reservationists,” “irreconcilables,” “Lodge Reservations,” Election of 1920, “return to normalcy,” Warren G. Harding
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Create a Trading Card for Henry Cabot Lodge.
2. Citizenship Question: What is the supreme law of the land? 
   1. the U.S. Constitution  
   2. the Articles of Confederation
   3. the Emancipation Proclamation
   4. the Declaration of Independence
3. Guided Instruction: World War I
4. Reflection Question: Why did Henry Cabot Lodge object to the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations?

Homework: World War I

Tentative Test Date: February 23​