Social Studies

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    World War 1

  • Mata Hari

    Mata Hari
    Born:7 August,1876
    Job:Dutch exotic dancer,courtesan,and accused spy
    Died:15 October,1917 (aged 41)
    Cause of death: Firing Squad in France under charges of espionage

  • Mick Mannock

    Mick Mannock
    Born:24 May,1887
    Job:British First World War flying ace
    Died:26 July,1918 (aged 31)
    Cause of death:His fighter plane was set on fire, and he was killed in action.

  • Christy Mathewson

    Christy Mathewson
    Born:August 12,1880
    Job:American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher
    Died:October 7,1925 (aged 45)
    Cause of Death:He died in Saranac Lake,New York,of tuberculosis

  • Alvin York

    Alvin York
    Born:December 13,1887
    Job:One of the most decorated American soldiers in World War I
    Died:September 2,1964 (aged 76)
    Cause of Death:Old age

  • Lawrence of Arabia

    Lawrence of Arabia
    Born:16 August,1888
    Real Name:Thomas Edward Lawrence
    Job:British Army officer
    Died:19 May,1935 (aged 46)
    Cause of death:He was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior motorcycle in Dorset

  • Eddie Rickenbacker

    Eddie Rickenbacker
    Born:October 8,1890
    Job:American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient
    Died:July 23,1973 (aged 82)
    Cause of Death:Old age,stroke,and pneumonia.

  • Manfred Von Richthofen

    Manfred Von Richthofen
    Born:2 May,1892
    Nickname: Red Baron
    Job:German fighter pilot in the Imperial German Army Air Service
    Died:21 April,1918 (aged 25)
    Cause of Death:Was fatally on 21 April 1918, while flying over Morlancourt Ridge, near the Somme River by an enemy pilot

  • Rene Fonck

    Rene Fonck
    Born:27 March,1894
    Job:French aviator who ended the First World War as the top Allied fighter ace
    Died:18 June,1953 (aged 59)
    Cause of death:Died of old age

  • Members of the Black Hand

    Members of the Black Hand
    Leader:Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic
    Members:Junior Army Officers,Lawyers,Journalists,and University Professors
    Pupose:To create a greater Serbia by violence

  • First Battle of Marne

    First Battle of Marne
    Location: Marne River
    People:
    France and United Kingdom V.S German Empire
    Result:Allied victory
    Ended:12 september,1914
    Cause:To take over Marne
    Special: Called the Miricale of the Marne and was the one of the first world war battles.

  • 2nd Battle of Ypres

    2nd Battle of Ypres
    Location:Ypres, Belgium
    Peple:
    France,Army of Africa,United Kingdom, Canada, Newfoundland, British V.S Greman Empire
    Result:Stalemate
    Ended: 25 May,1915
    Cause:They each wanted the town of Ypres for the war.
    Special:It was the first war that Germany used poison gas against the enemy

  • Turkish Genocide of Armenians

    Turkish Genocide of Armenians
    What it was: The killing of millions of Armenians
    When it started:24 april,1915
    Why it started:Because the Committee of Union and Progress was racist
    Where:Ottoman Empire

  • Battle of Gallipoli

    Battle of Gallipoli
    Location:Gallilpoli Peninsula
    People:British Empire and France V.S Ottoman Empire,Germany,Austria Hungary
    Result:Ottoman Empire won
    Ended:9 January,1916
    Cause:British and French wanted capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and get a sea route to Russia.

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania
    During World War 1 the Gremans intercepted any ship they could find going to Britian. One of the ships,the Lusitania, held 159 Americans and at 1:04 the German sent a torpedo towards it and it sank in less then 18 minutes. Out of the 1,959 people only 1,198 survived.

  • Battle of Verdun

    Battle of Verdun
    Location:Verdun, France
    People:France V.S.German Empire
    Result:France won
    Ended:18 December,1916
    Cause:Germany wanted to ware France down

  • Battle of Jutland

    Battle of Jutland
    Location:North Sea, near Denmark
    People:United Kingdom,Australia,Canada V.S Germany
    Result:British kept dominance of the North Sea
    Ended:1 June,1916
    Cause:Germany wanted dominance over the North Sea

  • Harlem Hell Fighters

    Harlem Hell Fighters
    Real Name:369th Infantry Regiment
    People:Soldiers
    Purpose:Soldiers
    Motto:"Don't Tread On Me"

  • Battle of Somme

    Battle of Somme
    Location:Somme River
    People:
    United Kingdom,France,Canada,Newfoundland,Australia,New Zealand,South Africa,India V.S Germn Empire
    Result:France kept Somme
    Ended:18 November,1916
    Cause:Both sides wanted to wear each other down

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram
    What it was:a diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence

  • U.S. enters Wolrd War 1

    U.S. enters Wolrd War 1
    Why did the U.S. enter? They entered the war because in 1915, the British passenger liner,the Lusitania,was sunk by a German submarine, killing 128 Americans getting the U.S irritated and then in 1917 we joined to end the batle.

  • Russia withdraws from the war

    Russia withdraws from the war
    Russia left the war because of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. The Czar was supporting the war against Germany and when he was killed by the communists, the new communist government stopped Russian support of the war.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.