1. What caused your event?
The sinking of the Lusitania
2. What other circumstances shaped your event? (think Haitian Earthquake vs. Chilean Earthquake)
Zimmerman Telegraph, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare
3. Who suffered because of your event? (and in what ways?)
The entire world, mainly the European countries the war was based in
4. Who benefited from your event? (and in what ways?)
Gun, Vehicle, and Supply Manufacturers
5. List at least 10 "moments" in your event that your poem could focus on?
- The first soldiers sent to war
- A U.S. citizen's reaction to them entering the war
- The announcement of the United States entering the war
- The first battle the Americans fought in
- A U.S. citizen's reaction to the sinking of the Lusitania
- The Zimmerman Telegraph
- Men enlisting into the Army
- Germany’s Reaction
- One of the battleships sent to join a British fleet
- President Woodrow Wilson negotiating a settlement with Germany
6. List at least 5 real people whose stories you can use as source material?
- Woodrow Wilson
- A German-American Citizen
- Former President Theodore Roosevelt
- An American Soldier
- Former President William Taft
7. Connect your event to the present day (by cause-and-effect or by analogy)
- Because of the stalemates caused by trench warfare, it is no longer used
- The machine gun, one of the first of its kind used during the war, became an important weapon of all wars after it
The sinking of the Lusitania
2. What other circumstances shaped your event? (think Haitian Earthquake vs. Chilean Earthquake)
Zimmerman Telegraph, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare
3. Who suffered because of your event? (and in what ways?)
The entire world, mainly the European countries the war was based in
4. Who benefited from your event? (and in what ways?)
Gun, Vehicle, and Supply Manufacturers
5. List at least 10 "moments" in your event that your poem could focus on?
- The first soldiers sent to war
- A U.S. citizen's reaction to them entering the war
- The announcement of the United States entering the war
- The first battle the Americans fought in
- A U.S. citizen's reaction to the sinking of the Lusitania
- The Zimmerman Telegraph
- Men enlisting into the Army
- Germany’s Reaction
- One of the battleships sent to join a British fleet
- President Woodrow Wilson negotiating a settlement with Germany
6. List at least 5 real people whose stories you can use as source material?
- Woodrow Wilson
- A German-American Citizen
- Former President Theodore Roosevelt
- An American Soldier
- Former President William Taft
7. Connect your event to the present day (by cause-and-effect or by analogy)
- Because of the stalemates caused by trench warfare, it is no longer used
- The machine gun, one of the first of its kind used during the war, became an important weapon of all wars after it