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World War 1
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Trench Warefare
fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. This is how World War ! was mainly fought. -
Sinking of Lusitania
Germany waged submarine warfare against the united kingdom which had implemented of Germany -
Zimmerman Note
A proposed military alliance between Germany and Mexico, as the U.S. entered the war. -
Espionage and Sedition act
Espionage Act prohibited people from expressing or publishing opinions that would interfere with the US military’s efforts to defeat Germany and its allies. A year later, Congress amended the law with the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it illegal to write or speak anything critical of American involvement in the war. United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I. A unanimous Supreme Court -
Spanish Flu
The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. It effected 500 million people over the world. -
Fourteen points
blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I, elucidated in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. -
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 (mainly United States, British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, and other Allied Powers). It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. -
Women of World War 1
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. They work in factories and helped heal servicemen
