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Causes of World War 1
Imperilism- Extending economic & political control over weaker nations
Alliance System-Formal agreement or union between nations
Nationalism- Devotion to the interest & culture of one nation
Militarism- Development of armed forces & their use as tools of diplomacy http://americanhistory.about.com/od/worldwari/tp/causes-of-world-war-1.htm http://youtu.be/4TjNdzYsmoo -
Assassination of Franz
Assassination of Franz
Franz Ferdinand was assassined by Gavrilo Princip, he shot Franz in the neck, and his pregnant wife in the stomach, killing them both. Princip wanted Franz killed becuase Bosnians wanted their independence. -
Allies v Central Powers
Allies- Great Britian, France, Russia
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Britsh Blockade
The purpose of the British Blockad was to stop all ships carrying war supplies to Germany. The effect of that was that 750,000 Garmans starved, and they responded with U boats -
Fighting Begins
Battle of Liege. Germany attacked the city of Liege, Belguim -
Trench Warfare
Life in the trenches was often said to be hell on earth. Death, diseases, mutilated limbs, lice, rats, maggots, and insects were all around the soldiers. The heat was horriable, but their meals were actually quite good.
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Lusitania (vid link) http://youtu.be/nfkBXFomL1c
All the ships heading to Great Britain ( including the Lusitania) were instructed to be on the lookout for U-boats and take precautionary measures such as traveling at full speed and make zigzag movements. But do to fog, they captain slowed the Lusitania down, and traveled in a predictable line. The Germans spotted the boat about 14 miles off the coast fo Southern Ireland at Old Head of Kinsale. Germans U-boat had targeted it and launched a torpedo hitting the right side of the Lusitania. -
3 New Weapons
2 weapons that changed fighting were tanks and airplanes. Tanks ran on caterpillar trads and were built of steel so that bullets bounces off. Tanks could easily drive through barbed wire, clearing paths for the infantry. Airplanes were used for multiple things. Flying over enemies to see where they were, dropping bombs, and to shoot other airplanes.
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Great Migration
The Great Migration was manily blacks headed North to try to avoid the Jim Crow Laws. They were also looking for jobs and for a better life. -
Election of 1916
Woodrow Wilson got re-elected in 1916 on a promise 'He kept us out of the war. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/america_and_world_war_one.htm -
Zimmermann Note
It is a telegram from the German foreign minister to the Geramn foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents. The telegram had a proposal for an alliance between Mexico and Germany, and it promised if war with the US broke out, Germany would support Mexico in recovering lost territory.
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America Joins the Fight
Wilson thought the only way to get peace in the world was to go to war to settle everything, and that's what the US did. They didn't join the war for ourselves or to win over anything, we fought so the world could have peace. http://jimmythejock.hubpages.com/hub/World_War_1_America_Declares_War_on_Germany -
Women's Roles
Women had to now do the mens work sense they were off at war, along with what they already did before hand. You name a job, and they did it. They were very busy while the men were off at war. http://youtu.be/LYm30Fb2908 -
CPI
CPI stands for Committee on Public Information and it was the United States first propaganda agency. The leader of the CPI was a former muckraking journalist named George Creel. He persuaded the nation's artists and advertising agencies to create thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons, and scupltures promoting the war. He also ordered a printinngs of 25 million copies of "How the War Came to America" which included Wilson's war message -
Sedition Selective Act
The act required men to register witht the government in order to be randomly selected for military service. In 1918, 24 million men had registered under the act. From that almost 3 million were called up. About 2 million troops reached Europe before the truce was signed, and 3/4 of the saw actual combat. -
Espionage Act
Espionage Act is a federal legislature enacted in 1917. The Act will criminalize and punish people for spying and related crimes. It prohubits not only spying but also other activites, including certain kinds of expression. If someone copies, takes, makes, or obtains any sketch, photgraph, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, document, writin, or note of anything connected with the national defense, they will be fined and/or put in prison. http://definitions.uslegal.com/e/espiona -
WIB
WIB stands for War Industries Board. The leader of the WIB was Bernard M. Beruch. The board encourages companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency. Under the WIB, industrial production in the US increased by about 20%. It applied price conttols only at the wholesale level. To a result to that, retail prices soared and in 1918 were almost doubled. http://www.warindustriesboard.com/ -
14 Points
Rules or outlines created by Woodrow Wilson. Saying that we only join the war to make peace, not to get anything out of it. And to create peace with other countries. It also helped shape the new world and took us into the war to fight for peace.
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Sedition Act
A law enacted during World War 1 to restrict public opinion of the U.S. war effort. If you disobeyed the act, you would be fined and/or put in prison. http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_U.S._Sedition_Act -
Armistice
Germans were too exhausted to continue to fight. So at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, in the eleventh month, Germany agreed to a cease-fire and signed the armistice (which means truce) that ended the war. -
Schenck v United States
Charles Schenck was against the war. He mailed thousands of pamphelts to men who hadbeen drafted to armed forves. On them it said that the governmatn had no right to send American citizens to other countries to kill people.Schenck was accused of violating the Espionage Act so he was sent to jail. The outcome of this whole thing was a test called "the clear and present danger test." -
League of Nations
The purpose for this was so all the countries could meet at one place and discuss matters in a peacful matter. It was created by Woodrow Wilson. I could call the states in dispute to sit down and discuss the problem in a peaceful manner.This meant that military force ouwl be used to put into place the League's decision. The US didn't want to join, German was not allowed to join, Russia was not seen as tit to join. That left Britain and France as leaders. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/lea -
Map
There were nine new nations after the war was over. The nations that were created were Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Turkey, and Czechoslovakia. Austria-Hungary were split into two different naitons. http://lettrist.blogspot.com/2007/12/treaty-of-versailles.html -
Big 4
Woodrow Wilson: United States, Vittorio Orlando: Italy, Georges Clemenceau: France, andDavid Lloyd George: Britain. -
Treaty of Versailles
It established 9 new nations and shifted the boundaries of other nations. The treaty also barred Germany from maintaining an army and made them along with France pay war damages, which amounted to $33 billion to the Allies. It also weakened the ablility to provide a lasting peace in Europe. It had some flaws that eventually lead to the WW2. -
Final Statistics
Total cost for Allies: $125,690,477,000. Total cost for Central Powers: $60,643,160,000. Deaths: approximately 37 million
