World War I: Crisis and Change in Europe UIL Social Studies 2015 – 2016

Larry McCarty [email protected] or [email protected]

Introductory remarks

Contest Basics

the test

objective portion

Section I – 20 questions – 1 point each

Section II – 15 questions – 2 points each

Section III – 10 questions – 3 points each

essay question – 20 points

individual entries

team entry

individual scoring and ranks

team scoring and ranks

wild card competition

Competition

Official UIL

UIL – invitational tournaments

other invitational tournaments

virtual competition

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Introduction of the topic

United States Political History: The Executive Branch

Primary Reading Selection:

The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I by Barbara Tuchman

available from Texas Educational Paperbacks and other sources

TEP, Inc. (Texas Educational Paperbacks) List price: $7.99, TEP Price: $5.19 plus 8% shipping with $10 minimum. 3824 Cedar Spring Road #202, Dallas, TX 75219-4168 Toll free: 800-443-2078 Fax: 800.437.7070 web: www.tepbooks.com ISBN-10: 0345476093 ISBN-13: 978-0345476098

Additional information related to World War I and the topic in general http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/648646/World-War-I http://www.firstworldwar.com/ http://www.worldwar1.com/ http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/ http://www.bbc.com/history/0/ww1/ http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-war-i/causes.html

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Contest Test Organization

There are no major changes in the format of the test for the 2015-2016 school year. As in past years, the test will be divided into three sections, each with differing numbers of questions with various point values. The specific nature, in terms of subject, number of questions, and point values is as follows:

Section One – General Knowledge: World War I and Its Aftermath

20 questions; one point each

Questions will be based on: specific terms from the accompanying list

Section Two – Questions based on The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I by Barbara Tuchman

15 questions; two points each

Section Three – Questions based on information about monarchs / leaders

Section Three monarchs / leaders

King Albert I Belgium Emperor Karl I/ Charles IV Austria Hungary King Alexander I Serbia / Yugoslavia Sultan Mehmed V Turkey Tsarina Alexandra Russia Sultan Mehmed VI Turkey King Carol I Romania Grand Duke Mikhail Monarch King Constantine I Greece Tsar Nicholas I Russia Franz Ferdinand Austria-Hungary King Peter Serbia / Yugoslavia King Ferdinand I Romania King Vittorio Emanuele III Italy Tsar Ferdinand I Bulgaria Kaiser Wilhelm II Germany Emperor Franz Josef I Austria-Hungary Crown Prince Wilhelm Germany King George V United Kingdom

10 questions; three points each

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Tips on Writing an Analytical Essay for the UIL Social Studies Contest

The essay is a critical portion of the UIL Social Studies contest. It reveals a student’s ability to analyze and synthesize events and issues rather than simply regurgitate data. The purpose of the analytical essay is to make meaning of a particular event or artifact, to provide the reader with a more full and clear understanding of the subject. Contestants should not lose sight of the simple fact that the essay score accounts for no less than 1/5th or 20 percent of the total test score. In highly competitive contests a mere few points on an essay question will determine the difference between first place and not placing in the top six. A quality essay is a key ingredient of success in the social studies contest!

(Remember, according to UIL rules, any student who does not write an essay shall be disqualified.)

Tips on writing the analytical essay:

• First, read the prompt carefully. Examine the question in a variety of contexts: social, political, scientific, cultural and economic

• Open with a clear, precise statement that assimilates all the information you’ve gathered regarding the question. Important: Do not repeat the essay prompt in your opening paragraph. Take it to a new level of understanding.

• Defend your statement.

• You have 90 minutes for the objective portion of the test and the essay. That’s more time than you’ll probably need, so think first before writing. Outline your essay. Prioritize your points. Then, be specific. Use specific examples.

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Examples of objective questions:

Section One – General Knowledge Questions

1. All of the following were considered members of the Triple Entente EXCEPT _____

A. France C. Russia B. Britain D. the United States

2. Which of the following battles was fought at sea?

A. Jutland C. Verdun B. Ypres D. Somme

Section Two – Questions based on The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I

3. One of the early passages in The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I makes reference to the funeral of _____?

A. Charles II C. Edward VII B. Victoria I D. John IV

4. Franz Joseph of Austria of Austria considered Belgium’s Leopold “a thoroughly bad man for of a host or reasons including alleged atrocities committed by Leopold’s forces in _____.

A. New Zealand C. Malaysia B. Congo D. Chile

Section Three – Questions based on monarchs / leaders

5. Which of the following individuals is NOT correctly matched with the nation they led.

A. Sultan Mehmed – Turkey C. Tsar Ferdinand – Bulgaria B. Karl I – Prussia D. George V – United Kingdom

6. Czar Nicholas II was assassinated during the _____ Revolution.

A. French C. Russian B. American D. Austrian

answers: 1-D, 2-A, 3-C, 4-B, 5-B, 6-C

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…more about the questions the following kinds of questions should be expected on most tests used in competition – this list is not comprehensive –other types of questions are likely but this list should be a helpful guide

SECTION ONE (terms)

definitions of terms from provided list

application of terms from provided list

relevance of terms from provided list to particular individuals / battles / political disputes

origin of a particular term on the list

relationship of two or more terms on the list

information related to battles – location, nations involved, outcome, impact on the war

SECTION TWO

sequence of major events cause and effect situations

role of key individuals biographic data provided by the book

SECTION THREE

biographic information significance of leadership

pre-war and post-war comparison challenges of the individuals

role, if any, during World War I factors related to success / failure

noted failures as leaders noted successes as leaders

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KEY TERMS – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE events / concepts / objects Hindenberg Line hydrophones ace pilots In Flanders Fields African Theatre Imperatritsa Mariya African Wars interrupter gear Agadir crisis Italian Front Allied Powers Italo-Turkish War Allies Lausanne Conference Alsace-Lorraine Little Englanders American Expeditionary Force Locarno Treaties Anglo French Entente Lusitania Ardennes machine guns Armistice Mesopotamian Campaign Armistice of Mudros Mesopotamian Front Army of the Orient Middle East Front Austria-Hungary mobilization Moroccan Crises Balkan Wars Mustard gas barbed wire November Revolution bayonets October Manifesto Belgian neutrality Opium Convention Big Four Palestine Front Black Hand Paris Peace Conference Bloody Sunday Massacre Plan 17 Bolsheviks Plan XVII Breslau poison gas British Expeditionary Force poppy British Home Force Prize Rules British Royal Navy Race to the Sea Brusilov Offensive Reinsurance Treaty bunker Russian Civil War Central Powers Russian Revolution chemical warfare Russo Turkish War chlorine gas Russo-Japanese War Christmas Truce Schlieffen Plan Coastal Campaign Senussi Campaign Council of Ten Somme Offensive Cross against the Crescent Spring Offensive Dawes Plan submarine warfare Dreadnought Tangier Crisis Dual Alliance tank Dual Monarchy tracer bullets Easter Rising Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Eastern Front Treaty of Bucharest Eastern Question Treaty of London Egyptian Expeditionary Force Treaty of Sèvres Elan, concept of trench warfare Entente Cordiale Triple Alliance February Revolution Triple Entente field marshal Turkish War of Indepedence flamethrowers U-Boats Franco-Prussian War unrestricted submarine warfare Gallipoli Front Versailles Peace Treaty German Revolution Vittorio Emanuele III Goeben War at Sea Hague Convention War Guilt Clause hand-to-hand combat War in the Black Sea High Seas Fleet war of attrition

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Western Front Sandfontein Western Front's Eastern Army Group Antwerp wireless Arras x-ray machines First Battle of Ypres Young Plan the Yser Young Turk movement Coronel Zaian War Tanga Zeppelin Basra Zimmerman note Qurna the Falkland Islands geographic locations / places Raid on Scarborough and Hartlepool Givenchy Alsace-Lorraine Champagne Ardennes (1915) Fort Brachon Dogger Bank Dardenelles Bolimov East Prussia the Suez Canal the Masurian Lakes Initial Dardanelles Bombardment battles Neuve-Chappelle (more significant battles) Attempt to force the Narrows Shaiba Verdun – 1916 Second Battle of Ypres the Marne – 1914, 1918 Landings at Helles and Anzac Cove Ypres – 1914, 1915, 1917 First Battle of Krithia Jutland – 1916 Counter attack at Eski Hissarlik Somme – 1916 Second Battle of Krithia Cambrai – 1917 Festubert Turkish Attack at Anzac Cove Amara (general list of battles – Third Battle of Krithia chronological) the Isonzo Nasiriyeh (1914) Gully Ravine Liege Achi Baba the Frontiers Second Battle of the Isonzo Mulhouse Landings at Suvia Bay Haelen Lone Pine Lorraine Sari Bair Stalluponen the Nek Gumbinnen Hill 60 the Ardennes Scimitar Hill Charleroi Loos Seige of Namur Mons Kut-al-Amara Dinant Es Sinn Maubeuge Third Battle of the Isonzo Louvain Fourth Battle of the Isonzo Le Cateau Ctesiphon Tannenberg Seige of Kut-al-Amara Heligoland Bight Evacuation of Gallipoli Guise (1916) Seige of Tsintao Sheikh Sa’ad First Battle of the Marne Wadi Masurian Lakes Hanna Bita Paka Verdun the Aisne Dujalia

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Fifth Battle of the Isonzo the Piave River Lake Naroch Le Hamel First Battle of Kut Second Battle of the Marne Asiago Havrincourt Trentino Offensive Epephy Jutland Vittorio Lutsk Veneto Khanaqin Sharqat Somme Bazentin Ridge (general list of battles – alphabetical) Delville Wood Pozieres Ridge Ardennes Romani Charleroi Sixth Battle of the Isonzo Bita Paka Gorizia Ctesiphon Guillemont Frontiers Seventh Battle of the Isonzo Galicia Flers-Courcelette Gallipoli Campaign Eight Battle of the Isonzo Gumbinnen Ninth Battle of the Isonzo Jutland Second Battle of Kut Kut, Seige of (1917) Lemberg Khadairi Bend Liège Nahr-al-Kalek Lodz Capture of Baghdad Marne Samarrah Offensive Masurian Lakes Seizure of Falluja Plevna First Battle of Gaza Sarikamish Jebel Hamlin Senussi Campaign Vimy Ridge Sinai and Palestine Campaign Shiala Somme Second Battle of the Aisne Stallupönen Second Battle of Gaza Tannenberg Istabulat Vistula River the Boot Verdun Tenth Battle of the Isonzo Vittorio Veneto Otranto Straits Warsaw Messines Ypres Third Battle of Ypres Passchendaele Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo individuals Ramadi Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo Abdülhamid II Caporetto Albert I Third Battle of Gaza Alexandra Feodorovna Beersheba Alfonso III Tikrit Alfonso XIII Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal Mughar Ridge Augusta Viktoria Cambrai d’Amade, General Fall of Jerusalem Asquith, Herbert Henry (1918) Balfour, Arthur James Raid on Zeebrugge Belin, General Third Battle of the Aisne Below-Saleske, German Minister Cantigny Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobold von Chateau-Thierry Bismark, Otto von Belleau Wood

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Boris III Kitchener, Lord Horatio Herbert Bryan, William Jennings Lenin, Valdimir Bryce, Lord Leopold Carol I Lippman, Walter Carson, Sir Edward Lodge, Henry Cabot Castelnau, General Noel de Mehmed V Churchill, Winston Milner, Lord Alfred Clausewitz, Karl von Morgenthau, Henry Clemenceau, Goeroges Napoleon III Clergerie, General Nicholas II Constantine I Nikola I Daniels, Josephus Nikolaevich, Nicholas de Castelnau, Noel Orland, Vittirio de Langle de Cary, Fernand Pasha, Enver Dubail, General Auguste Pershing, John J. Edward VII Peter I Karadjordjević Emmich, General Otto von Poincaré, Raymond Erzberger, Mathias Princip, Gavrilo Escher, Lord Prittwitz und Gaffron, Lieutenant General von Ferdinand I Rasputin, Grigori Ferdinand, Franz Red Baron Fisher, Sir John Robertson, General Sir William Foch, General Ferdinand Ruffey, General Franchet d’Esperey, General Louis Rupprecht, Prince Francois, General Hermann von Samsonov, General Aleksandr Franco, Francisco Sazonov, Sergei Franz Joseph I Schlieffen, Count Alfred von Frederick Smith-Dorrien, General Sir Horace Frederick Charles Townsend, Charles French, John Trotsky, Leon Friedrich Augustus III Umberto I Friedrich III Victoria Galet, General Emile Victoria Eugenie Gallieni, General Joseph-Simon Viviani, René Garrison, Lindley von Baden, Max Geddis, Sir Auckland von Bismarck, Otto Geddis, Sir Eric von Clausewitz, Carl George, David Lloyd von Falkenhayn, Erich George V von Hindenburg, Paul Gladstone, William von Moltke (the younger), Helmuth Grey, Sir Edward von Moltke, Helmuth von Rennenkampf, Paul Grierson, Sir James von Richthofen, Manfred Grunert, Major General von Schlieffen, Alfred Gustav V von Tirpitz, Alfred Haig, Douglas von Württemberg, Albrecht Haldane, Richard Waldemar House, Colonel Wilhelm Joffre, Joseph Wilhelm II Johann II

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…some useful tips for preparation

 Select a team – yes there is individual competition but teamwork is helpful

 Begin as soon as possible – teams that compete in May begin work in August

 Establish reading deadlines – do not try to read the whole book in a week; especially the week before your first contest

 Subscribe to a provider of practice material – multiple companies listed on the UIL website offer great material

 Practice regularly – the football team does it; so why not the Social Studies team

 Prepare team questions – a great way to gain new insight

 Question writing assignments – see above and add some focus

 Flashcards – one of the best ways to prepare

 Practice test-taking skills – regardless of the test; skills remain the same

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