Why did WWI end in November 1918?

This World War I lesson investigates why WWI came to an end in November 1918. It looks at 8 different reasons, including the situation within Germany as well as the battlefield, to evaluate why WWI ended on 11 November 1918.

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 sheet with activities, diamond 8 think pair share activity, mini-plenaries, a consolidation essay style question and a ‘What If’ plenary.

Activities are planned to encourage thinking and discussion.

We have lots more WWI lessons in our TES shop including a great value ‘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 and a WWI bundle which includes trench warfare: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/world-war-one-12942317

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