WORLD POWER
Written by: Mrs. Bracken and Mrs. O’Neal’s
Fifth Grade Social Studies Classes ’08-09
Calhoun Academy of the Arts
Anderson, SC
Sing to: Independent by Webbie featuring Lil Boosie & Lil Phat
We got Alaska from Russia
only 7.2 million dollars
Seward’s Folly, Natural Resources
fish, lumber, oil, gold, coal, copper
Now we’re annexing Hawaii
Using cash crops to get more money
Yellow journalists told stories
‘Bout the battleship Maine exploding
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
Teddy’s Rough Riders were fighting
To get Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico
We’re becoming invincible
We’re brave, mighty, and ambitious
Now we’re needing
a better trade route
Instead of moving all around South America
Faster travel we’re attaining
using sea-level locks for sailing
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
Panama Canal
is finally finished
Even though mosquitoes caused diseases
Atlantic to Pacific
9 Hours to be more specific
Storms Arising- Tensions Growing
Everybody’s gonna be exploding
Alliances are forming
Protection from the enemies’ storming
Assassination from Serbia
1914 is all about disturbia
Before we know it-We’re competing
Other countries are becoming deceiving
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
Woodrow Wilson remaining neutral
Until the fighting gets way too brutal
Lusitania was torpedoed
By a German submarine called a U-Boat
Americans are dying
Isolationism we’re still trying
Mail to Mexico from Germany
Ganging up to be bring some harmony
Sending telegrams made us angry
Zimmerman note turned out crazy
1917 is the year
Central Powers will begin to fear
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
Allied Powers we are teaming
We’re tired of Germany’s scheming
Great Britain, France and Russia
Japan, Italy, Belgium, Serbia
Central Powers we’re attacking
All the soldiers have started packing
(Rest) Turkey and Germany
We’ve got Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
New technologies are arriving
A better way to help our fighting
Machine guns, trench warfare
Submarines, poison gas- say a prayer
We are testing tanks and airplanes
Dog-fighting pilots on their A-game
In the trenches we are steady
to enter no-man’s land we are ready!
In the U.S, we are busy
To help make win the war very easy
Sending vegetables from the war gardens
To help the fighters who might be starvin’
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
WORLD POWER-do you know what that means?
SPOKEN:
On November 11, 1918 at 11:00AM, the Central Powers surrendered, and an armistice ended the war.
January 1919, the Treaty of Versailles officially ended the war.
Germany had to pay heavy fines and could not rebuild its army.
The League of Nations was formed to prevent future wars, but the senate did not approve.
The United States would return to isolationism.
Everyone hoped this would be the “WAR TO END ALL WARS.”
Peace and Isolation would only last for about 20 years.
