I.C.9-12.7

Analyze and evaluate the causes, events and effects of World War I, to include:<ol type="a"><li>rise of nationalism (e.g., unification of Germany, Otto Von Bismarck's leadership)</li><li>rise of ethnic and ideological conflicts (e.g., the Balkans, Austria-Hungary, decline of the Ottoman empire)</li><li>major turning points and the importance of geographic, military and political factors in decisions and outcomes</li><li>human costs of the mechanization of war (e.g., machine-gun, airplane, poison gas, submarine, trench warfare, tanks)</li><li>effects of loss of human potential through devastation of populations and their successive generations</li><li>effects of the Russian revolution and the implementation of communist rule</li></ol>