1. The document discusses how the concept of "keeping up with the Joneses" and arms races contributed to World War 1. It instructs students to take notes on how the industrial revolution enabled arms races between European powers and how this escalating military spending ultimately led to World War 1. 2. Students are asked to graph military spending data, define an arms race, draw connections to keeping up with neighbors, and predict which countries would lose in a European war. 3. The document provides guidance for an assignment analyzing the links between arms races, nationalism, and the outbreak of World War 1.

1. Bellringer1. OPTIC on this graph
World Military Spending

2. Notes today: WW1 Military arms race

3. “Keeping up with the Joneses”
• 5 examples
from our
lives
• 2 reasons
people do it
• 2 reasons
people
shouldn’t
do it

4. World War One reading
• In your notes:
1. Graph the table in your notes
2. What is an “arms race”?
3. How is it similar to “Keeping up with the Joneses?
4. How was the arms race caused by the Industrial
Revolution?
5. How did the arms race cause World War One?
6. Predict who loses and explain why.
7. Identify an example of “arms races” from our modern
society. Think about sports, business, etc

7. Closure
• How did the concept of “keeping up with the
Joneses” help contribute to WW1?

8. Map side: Using your notes, choose a theme
and draw in color the characters on the
Europe 1914 map page 630
Blank side: draw 6.5 boxes and explain your
choices
Great Britain France Germany
Russia ItalyOttoman Empire
Austria-Hungary

10. World War One reading
• In your notes:
1. What is an “arms race”?
2. How is it similar to “Keeping up with the Joneses?
3. How was the arms race caused by the Industrial
Revolution?
4. How did the arms race help cause World War One?
5. Predict who loses and explain why.
6. Identify an example of “arms races” from our modern
society. Think about sports, business, etc
7. Graph the table in your notes

11. World War One reading
• In your notes:
1. What is an “arms race”?
2. How is it similar to “Keeping up with the Joneses?
3. How was the arms race caused by the Industrial
Revolution?
4. How did the arms race cause World War One?
5. Predict who loses and explain why.
6. Graph the table in your notes
7. Identify an example of “arms races” from our modern
society. Think about sports, business, etc

12. World War One reading
• In your notes:
1. What is an “arms race”?
2. How is it similar to “Keeping up with the Joneses?
3. How was the arms race caused by the Industrial
Revolution?
4. How did the arms race cause World War One?
5. Predict who loses and explain why.
6. Graph the table in your notes
7. Identify an example of “arms races” from our modern
society. Think about sports, business, etc

13. World War One reading
• In your notes:
1. What is an “arms race”?
2. How is it similar to “Keeping up with the Joneses?
3. How was the arms race caused by the Industrial
Revolution?
4. How did the arms race cause World War One?
5. Predict who loses and explain why.
6. Graph the table in your notes
7. Identify an example of “arms races” from our modern
society. Think about sports, business, etc