Agenda: Monday, April 5, 2010

Quote of the Day:  

Aidan on Easter, "This is awesome.Way better than Halloween. You get candy and don't have 2 walk to houses!" The mind of a 5 yr old.

Learning Targets:

*  Competition over trade and colonies led to the formation of two rival European alliances—the Triple Entente of Great Britain, France, and Russia; and the Triple Alliance, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

* Repeated crises over Serbian claims on the Austro-Hungarian region of Bosnia revealed the dangers inherent in these alliances. Austria-Hungary, as well as numerous other European governments, confronted challenges from minorities that wished to establish their own national states. 

*  Strikes and violent actions by Socialist labor movements also threatened European governments. Many states responded with increasing militarism.

*  The assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary by a Bosnian Serb militant set off a chain of diplomatic and military decisions that led all of the great powers of Europe into World War I.

Agenda:

1.  Intro to WWI - Chapter 23 (pass out CH. 23 Targets)

2.  Notes on Chapter 23 - "Path to War"

Tomorrow the project product is due.  We will start presenting them after 10-15 minutes of notes on WWI.