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Centeral Powers
Previously known as The Triple Alliance, consisted of Germany Austria-Hungary, and Italy. -
Allies
Previously known as The Triple Entente consisting of one set of the Allied countries in Europe: Britain, France, and Russia. -
1914 Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferndinand
heir to the Austrian monarchy. on june 1917 as when the royal entourage drove through the city, serbian nationalust Geavrilo Princip assasinated the duke and his wife. Princip was a part of the group known as the Black Hand. His assasination triggered the war with Serbia , which due to the allainces brought in nation after nation into the war. -
Schlieffen plan
Germany invaded Belgium following the Schlieffen Plan. It consisted fo a strong arm agaisnt Russia, while combining a swift drive through Belgium to Paris. After france would be conquered the two armies were to reconnect and finish off Russia. -
Sinking of British liner Lusitania
a U-boat sank the British liner the Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland. 1,198 person lost, of those lost, 128 were Americans. The German's explanation for their action took the grounds that the liner carried amminition. -
Sinking of the British liner Arabic
a U-boat sank another liner, Arabic, drowning 2 Americans. After this altercation Germany agreed not to sink any more passanger ships. -
Sinking of French passenger liner Sussex
The German's broke their promised, and torpedoed an unarmed passenger ship named the Sussex. About 80 passengers were injured or killed including Americans. The U.S. threatened to break off diplomatic ties with Germany, and once again Germany agreed to change it's tactics under one condition: but there was a condition: if the United States could not persuade Britain to lift its blockade against food and fertilizers, Germany would consider renewing unrestricted submarine warfare -
Battle of the Somme
lasted until mid november. The British suffered 60,000 casualties the first day alone. Final Casualties 1.2 million -
Zimmerman Note
an German telegram to Mexico intercepted by Britain, asking for an alliance with the Mexico that in case war btoke out with the U.S. Germany would support mexico to reclaim Texas and other territories. -
Selective Service act of 1917
the act required men to register with the goverment in order to randomly be selected for millitary service. By the end of 1918, 24 million men had registered under the act . Of the 24 million about 3 million were selected to serve, one in fiver were foreign -
Convoy System
a system in which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups. By fall of 1917, shipping losses had been cut in half. THe plan was proposed to the British goverment by American Vice Admiral William S. Sims -
War Industries Board
The regulatory body was the War Industries Board (WIB), established in 1917, reorganized by 1918 under the leadership of Bernard M. Baruch. Under the WIB, industrial production in the United States increased by about 20 percent. However, the WIB applied price controls only at the wholesale level. As a result, retail prices soared, and in 1918 they were almost double what they had been before the war -
Espionage and Sedition Acts
In June 1917 Congress passed the Espionage Act, and in May 1918 it passed the Sedition Act. Under the acts a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail, for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort. Like the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 the acts clearly violated the First Amendment, -
Second Battle of the Marne
U.S. Troops helped win the Second Battle of Marne, Turning the tide on the Centeral Powers. The Americans Proceeded to go on the offensive. -
National War Labor Board
In order to deal with disputes between managment and lavor President wilson established The National War Labor. "Work or Fight", those who refused to obey could lose their draft excemptions. The board worked to factory conditions, it pushed for an 8 hour workday, promoted safety inspections, and enforced the child labor ban. -
Committee on Public Information
to popularize the goverment set up the nation's first propoganda industry, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), sending out bias information inteded to influence people's thoughts and actions. The head of the CPI was a former muckraking journalist named George Creel. Creel persuaded the nation’s artists and advertising agencies to create thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons, and sculptures promoting the war. He recruited some 75,000 men to serve as “Four-Minute Men,” to give speeches -
Food Administration
to produce and conserve food the Food Administration, under Hebery Hoover. He called on people to follow the “gospel of the clean plate.” He declared one day a week “meatless,” another “sweetless,” two days “wheatless,” and two other days “porkless. -
Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies
Austria-Hungary surrenders to the Allies. The same day, German sailors mutinied against goverment authority. -
Establishment of the German Republic
On November 9, socialist leaders in the capital Berli, establishing a German Republic. The german's were too exhausted to continue fighting -
Cease-fire and Armistance
Germany agreed to a cease-fire and signed an Armistance
