About This Lesson
This is a hyperdoc that allows students to research four significant events in the first decade of the twentieth century. The hyperdoc includes links for each event as well as links to short video clips. The events include the Bloody Sunday massacre in Russia in 1905 and the Russo-Japanese War in the same year. Students examine Georgii Gapon's petition to the tsar and the main concessions that Russia lost to Japan. Students also read about the collapse of dynastic China and the Mexican Revolution, both in 1910.
The guiding question for students is to analyze the commonalities of these different events.
The research should show students the instability or insecurity that characterized the beginning of the 20th century.
