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Conflict and Tension Lesson 12: Germany Surrenders
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI
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Lusitania
BolshevikSlide2
Germany SurrendersSlide3Slide4
The Hundred Days
May-August 1918
Germany was running out of time and resourcesAllies had large numbers of well-fed and well-equipped troops (mainly from the USA) along with improved artillery, tanks and aircraft.The ending of trench warfare meant the allies could now make rapid advances with accurate big guns with impressive accuracy that could lay down smokescreens for attackers.8
th August: German Army’s ‘Black Day’ when there was a counter –attack by the allies along the Western front. By late September they had reached the Hindenburg line.
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWISlide5
4 10 min videos worth watching for more detail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPBHjE6MOPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3H59FmCqzAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5be9Jxj0wohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTeFLA6LNtY
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWISlide6
U-boats, Convoys and Battle of Jutland
P230- 231
Focus Task- P231Slide7
The Impact of the Blockade
Look at sources 3, 4 and 5 on Page 234
What information about the impact can you learn from each source?Which source is the most useful and why?How significant was the blockade in the defeat of Germany?
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI
How useful are Sources B and C to an historian studying
_______________________________________________________________________?
Explain your answer using Sources B and C and your contextual knowledge. [12 marks] Slide8
Abdication of the Kaiser
Define: Abdicate and Republic
Why was the Kaiser made to Abdicate?From 27.23: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbCh4c-8vA
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWISlide9
The Armistice
Write a newspaper article about the Armistice:
Explain what it isWhy it has happenedThe Terms the Germans had agreed toWhen the fighting stoppedWhy some German Generals and people in Germany were unhappy about the armistice
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWISlide10
Which factor was most important in leading to the allies victory in World War I
America joining the war
The British Naval BlockadeFailure of the Ludendorff offensiveGerman losses in 1916 and 1917Improvements in the Allies army’s effectivenessBritain and America having more resources than GermanyEach table will be given one of these arguments to present as being the most important reason.
Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWISlide11
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Good learning: Understand the events of the Hundred Days
Great learning: Explain why the Kaiser Abdicated
Even better: Evaluate the significance of events contributing to Germany losing WWI