YOUR HOMEWORK:

Choose one cartoon and one text source to analyze for your homework. Follow the steps that we went over in class today (from your study guide). Bring your analysis in to class on Monday/Tuesday!

"The Accuser" by Rollin Kirby of the World Journal Tribune (American publication)

A cartoon by FH Townsend in Punch (British magazine), 12 August 1914

"If the nations want peace, the League gives them the way by which peace can be kept. League or no League, a country which is determined to have a war can always have it." 

The 1930s historian H.A.L. Fisher in his book, A History of Europe (1938).

What can we learn from this source about the failure of the League of Nations? Explain.

"An unjust war has been declared on a weak country. The anger in Russia shared fully by me is enormous. I foresee that very soon I shall be overwhelmed by the pressure forced upon me and be forced to take extreme measures which will lead to war. To try to avoid such a calamity as a European war I beg you in the name of our old friendship to do what you can to stop your allies from going too far. Nicky"

Telegram from Tsar Nicholas II to Kaiser Wilhelm II, 29 July 1914. 

Nicholas and Wilhelm were cousins, and had been great friends.

How accurate is this source as a source of information about the start of World War One? Explain.