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=Global War: Does Conflict Produce Change? =

**Summary of ideas for overall project:**
 
 * Visual Ranking to list events in chronological order or order of importance
 * Seeing Reason to find cause and effect relationships to events
 *  Showing Evidence to consider who needs war.

**Subject and grade level:**
World History, 9

**Topic of your Unit: **
====Global War    ==== = = = = = =
 * Curriculum Framing Questions:**
 * **Essential Question: Does conflict produce change? **
 * ** Unit Questions: **
 * Why were there global conflicts in the twentieth century?
 * How were global conflicts in the twentieth century resolved?
 * What factors seem to be constant in a global war?
 * What is the impact of global war on a global society?
 * ** Content Questions: **  
 * 1)  What are the key events of World War 1, the Russian Revolution and Paris Peace Conference and how do these events still impact our lives today?
 * 2)  What key events occurred in the history of the Western countries between WW1 and WW2 and how do these events still impact our lives today?
 * 3) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> Why was nationalism an important trend in the 20th century?
 * 4) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> What are the key events of World War 2 and how do these events still impact our lives today?
 * 5) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> What military strategies were used in WW1 and WW2 and how did technology impact those strategies?
 * 6) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> Who were the important leaders and achievers in the 20th century?
 * 7) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> What is the importance of economic competition in the Cold War era?
 * Concerns, questions, desired feedback:

Visual Ranking**
 * ** Road to War: ** Rank events of WW1 in chronological order and explain importance of each event
 * Idea 2

**Seeing Reason**

 * ** A Real Power Trip: ** Interdependently think about the reasons for Germany's rise and fall as a world power following WW1.
 * Idea 2

**Showing Evidence**

 * ** War of the Worlds: ** Who needs war? In teams, students make claims about who needs war and cite facts to support or oppose each claim.
 * Idea 2