{"id":3180,"date":"2014-11-24T14:54:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T11:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2014-11-09T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T11:56:43","slug":"introductory-overview-the-origins-of-world-war-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/introductory-overview-the-origins-of-world-war-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Introductory Overview: The Origins of World War One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ww1_causes\/Pack1\/01_Study_Guide.doc\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2871\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Waterlogged_trench-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Waterlogged_trench\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Waterlogged_trench-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Waterlogged_trench.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/>Introductory Overview<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThis handout sets up the topic by providing key facts about the war and asking students to consider how they would answer &#8216;big&#8217; questions such as &#8220;In what circumstances would you be prepared to fight in a war? How can we prevent wars from happening? Does war have any positive effects? What is the purpose of Remembrance Day?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This forms part of the newly updated ActiveHistory scheme of work on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/world_war_one\/The_Great_War_Causes.php\">Origins of World War One<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introductory Overview This handout sets up the topic by providing key facts about the war and asking students to consider how they would answer &#8216;big&#8217; questions such as &#8220;In what circumstances would you be prepared to fight in a war? How can we prevent wars from happening? Does war have any positive effects? What is&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/introductory-overview-the-origins-of-world-war-one\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Pi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}