During this unit on World War I you are required to complete and present one research
project. All projects can
be completed individually or with a partner. Make your selections of topic and project
type carefully because these are worth 500 points. A scoring guide will be
provided for each type of project.
TOPICS:
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CAUSES OF
WWI |
MAJOR
BATTLES |
WAR AT SEA |
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Royal Navy |
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Assassination in |
Tannenberg - August 1914 |
German Navy |
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Sinking of the Luisitania |
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French Navy |
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Zimmerman Telegram |
Heligoland August- 1914 |
American Navy |
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1st |
Battle & Scout
cruisers |
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WEAPONS |
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Battleships |
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Anti-submarine weapons |
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Destroyers |
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Rifles and Pistols |
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Torpedo Boats |
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Machine guns |
Gallipoli Campaign |
Troop Ships |
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Armored vehicles |
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Artillery |
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Tanks |
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WAR MEDICINE |
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Poison Gas |
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Diseases |
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Bayonet |
Gorizia - August 1916 |
Field Hospitals |
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Smokeless gunpowder |
Passchendaele July/Nov 1917 |
Red Cross |
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Flame-throwers |
Cambrai - November 1917 |
Surgeries/Amputations |
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Hand grenade |
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"Shell Shock" |
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(Fist battle of the AEF) |
Stretcher-bearers |
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INTELLIGENCE/ESPIONAGE |
May/June 1918 |
Casualty Clearing
Stations (trenches) |
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MI5 - British Intelligence |
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Abwehr -German intelligence |
2nd |
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Walther Nicolai - Abwehr Director |
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Vernon |
St. Mihiel - Sept 1918 |
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Choctaw Code Talkers of World War I |
Meuse-Argonne - Sept-Nov 1918 |
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SIR
ERNEST SHACKLETON'S Endurance
Antarctic Expedition |
PRISONERS
OF WAR - Life as a
POW |
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- Allied POW Camps |
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- Central Powers POW Camps |
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TACTICS |
LIFE IN THE
TRENCHES |
HOMEFRONTS |
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Schlieffen Plan |
Western Front Warfare |
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Plan 17 |
No Man's Land |
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Creeping Barrage |
Diseases |
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Infantry tactics |
Shell-fire |
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Machine gun pill boxes |
Food |
Music |
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Gas attacks |
Living conditions |
Art |
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Snipers |
Entertainment |
Propaganda |
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Cavalry |
Listening posts |
Antiwar arguments |
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Plan 19 |
Runners |
Mobilization |
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Tunneling |
Barbed wire |
Influenza Pandemic |
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Fortresses |
Signalers |
Espionage Act 1917 |
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Infiltration Parachutes |
Sedition Amendment 1918 |
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CHRISTMAS
TRUCE 1914 |
Selective Service System |
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LOST
BATTALION |
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MILITARY
DECORATIONS |
WAR
HEROES |
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Distinguished Flying Cross |
Sgt. Alvin York |
COMMUNICATIONS |
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Legion d' Honneur |
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Field Communications |
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Medal of Honor |
- T.A. Bradford |
Letters from home |
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Military Cross |
- G.N Bradford |
Telegraph |
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Croix de Guerre |
- J. B. Bradford |
Morse Code |
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Distinguished Service
Cross |
- R. B. Bradford |
Telephones |
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Iron Cross |
Noel Godfrey Chavasse |
Radio |
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Sidney Godley |
Communication Trenches |
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UNIFORMS OF
WW I |
Charles Jarvis |
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British |
George Wyatt |
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American |
John Fuller |
PEACE |
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French |
Edward 'Mick' Mannock |
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German |
Walter Tull |
Armistice 1918 |
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Russian |
John Gort |
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Theodore Wright |
Treaty of |
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WOMEN
DURING THE WAR |
Francis Grenfell |
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WW I Signal Corps Women |
Frederick Holmes |
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Reconstruction Aides
(Physical and Occupational Therapists) |
Ross Tollerton |
RMS
TITANIC |
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WW I Women Marines |
John Cornwell |
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Women's Royal Navy Service |
John Bent |
STATISTICS
& COSTS OF WW I |
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Women on the Medical Front |
George Vaughn |
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First Aid Nursing Yeomanry |
William Avery
"Billy" Bishop |
ART,
POETRY, PHOTOGRAPHY & MUSIC OF THE ERA |
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Women's Hospital Corps |
T. E. Lawrence |
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Women's Royal Airforce |
Sgt. James F. Carty Pvt. Harold F. Proctor |
PROPAGANDA |
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Voluntary Aid Detachments |
Major Charles Whittlesey Sir Arthur Currie |
INFLUENZAPANDEMIC
1918 |
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PEOPLE
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ALLIED
POWERS |
CENTRAL
POWERS |
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Political
leaders: |
Political
leaders: |
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Woodrow Wilson |
Otto von Bismarck |
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Nicholas II |
Kaiser William II |
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David Lloyd Geroge |
Arthur Zimmerman |
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Georges Clemeneau |
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Winston Churchill |
Military
leaders: |
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William |
Alfred von Schlieffen |
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Paul von Hindenberg |
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George Creel |
Prince Wihelm |
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Herbert Hoover |
Alfred von Tirpitz |
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William Gibbs McAdoo |
Liman von Sanders |
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Henry Cabot Lodge |
Helmuth von Moltke |
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Vittorio Orlando |
Erich Ludendorff |
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Maximilian von Spee |
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Prince Rupprecht |
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Military
leaders: |
Manfred von Richthofen |
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Sir
Edmund Allenby |
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Sir William Birdwood |
CENTRAL
POWERS SPIES |
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AlexiBrusilov Eddie Rickenbacker |
Simon Emil Koedel (American spy for the
Germans) |
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Sir Julian Byng Sir Arthur Currie |
Mata Hari
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Luigi Cadorna |
Wilhelm Wassmuss |
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Edouard de Castlenau |
Otto Herman Voss |
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AugusteDubail |
Julius (Or Jules) Silber |
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Faisal ibn Ali |
ElsbethSchragmüller |
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Ferdinand Foch |
Franz von Papen |
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Sir John French |
Walther Nicolai |
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Joseph Gallieni |
Karl Hans Lody( AKA: Charles A. Inglis) |
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Sir Hubert Gough |
ReinhardGehlen |
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Sir Douglas Haig |
Karl Gustav Ernst |
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Sir Ian Hamilton |
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Joseph Joffre |
ALLIED SPIES |
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Lord Kitchner |
David Bloch (AKA: Karl Sprecher) |
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T.E. Lawrence |
Basil Thomson |
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Frederick
Maurice |
John Buchan |
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Henry Mitchell |
John Wallinger |
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John Monash |
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Robert Nivelle |
Sidney Reilly |
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John J. Pershing |
Alexander Szek |
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Henri-Philippe Petain Leonard Wood |
Marthe Richer (AKA: "Alouette") Double Agent |
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Sir Herbert Plumer |
Edward Montague Compton
Mackenzie |
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Alexander Samsonov |
Charles Lucieto |
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Jan Christian Smuts |
Vernon |
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Sir Henry Rawlinson |
William Reginald Hall
(AKA: Blinker) |
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Paul von Rennenkampf |
Elizebeth |