Indiana Social Studies WH.6.2

Social StudiesGrades 9–12An Era of Global Conflicts, Challenges, Controversies, and Changes: 1900 CE to Present

The Standard

Trace major events and global consequences of World War I.

2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Put the assassination in Sarajevo, the spread of fighting, U.S. entry, and the armistice in order. Explain how the war and peace treaties changed borders, governments, and life beyond Europe.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students can explain how alliances turned a regional crisis into a wider war. They can use a postwar map to identify collapsed empires, new European states, and mandates in the Middle East.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think the assassination alone caused the war, without considering alliances and mobilization. They may assume fighting stayed in Europe or that peace treaties restored the old borders.
How to Assess It: On an exit ticket, ask students to put Sarajevo, U.S. entry, and the armistice in order. Then ask them to name one way a postwar treaty changed control of land outside Europe.

Lesson moves

Hand out 1914 and 1923 maps; students mark collapsed empires and new borders with colored pencils.
Ask, 'How did the postwar treaties change Europe and the Middle East?' Require one example from each region.
Run a timeline relay with cards for Sarajevo, mobilization, trench warfare, U.S. entry, the armistice, and the peace treaties.
Compare a current Middle East map with a postwar mandate map; students circle one border still visible today.

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