WWI Responsibility

This Causes of World War I lesson investigates who the responsibility for WWI lies with. It looks at the part played by France, Britain, Serbia, Russia, Austro-Hungary and Germany and encourages students to evaluate their responsibility for the outbreak.

This download includes a fully editable powerpoint with all activities, instructions, clip links and worksheets/information sheets you need. It is differentiated 2/3 ways where possible with scaffolding and challenge options and is fully planned with plenty of activities for your students to complete including a starter, all clips and related tasks, information sheets with table to complete, mini-plenaries, think pair share source activity, a consolidation essay style question, a plenary and a homework task.

Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.

We have lots more WWI lessons in our TES shop including several great value bundles:

a ‘Causes of WWI’ bundle which includes 2 x Assassination in Sarajevo, Alliance System & Militarism, Imperialism and Nationalism lessons: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/causes-of-world-war-one-12924566

a big WWI bundle which includes causess, fighting in the trenches and end of war: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-one-12942317

a home, land and sea WWI bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/wwi-home-land-and-sea-12950791

and a GCSE First World War bundle: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/gcse-first-world-war-1894-1918-12952900

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