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Trench Warfare
land warfare using occupied fighting lines of large trenches in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and sheltered from artillery. The United States was allied with Great Britain therefore they were trying to help out the allied powers -
Sinking of Lusitania
Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was torpedoed without warning. Within 20 minutes it sank and a big majority of people died or drowned. -
Zimmerman Note
British cryptographers deciphered a telegram to the German minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering U.S territory to Mexico in a turn for joining the German cause. -
Spanish Flu
a pandemic of influenza caused by breathing infected air that was believed to have started in China and spread quickly worldwide. Deaths in the U.S were 500,000 and 20-50 million worldwide. -
Fourteen points
statement of principles for peace that was used for peace negotiations in order to end ww1. President Woodrow Wilson enumerated the last of his fourteen points, which called for a "general association of nations"...... -
Espionage and Sedition Act
Congress passed the act in an attempt to block the expression of views harmful to the U.S. It was strengthened one year later by the sedition act. -
Treaty of Versailles
most important peace treaty that brought ww1 to an end. It ended the state of war between Germany and the allied powers. -
Women
The 19th amendment was ratified to the United States constitution that granted American women the right to vote. The 19th amendment provides men and women with equal voting rights. Large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war
