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Trench Warfare
Trench warfare of the First World War can be said to have begun in September 1914 and ended when the Allies made a breakthrough attack that began in late July 1918. Before and after those dates were wars of movement: in between it was a war of entrenchment.When the United States forces entered Europe in 1917, their first taste of battle and trench warfare was their insertion into French or British lines as replacements during periods of troop rotation, or to fill depleted ranks. -
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Sinking of Lusitania
When Germany torpedoes a British passenger ship believed to be smuggling arms, anger at the resulting American deaths increases pressure on President Wilson to enter World War I.On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans. -
Zimmerman Note
The Zimmerman Note Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America.This was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. -
Spanish Flu
The 1918 flu pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus. Infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet's population at the time–and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. -
Fourteen Points
The address was intended to assure the country that World War I, which America had joined on April 6, 1917, was being fought for a moral cause and for a lasting postwar peace in Europe.The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
The Espionage and Seditiona Acts targeted socialists and labor leaders.The law was extended on May 16, 1918, by the Sedition Act of 1918, actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act, which prohibited many forms of speech. It violated the 1st amendment by not letting anyone express their freedom of speech.Schenck v. United States was the first in a line of Supreme Court Cases defining the modern understanding of the First Amendment. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Germany was forced to reduce its army,Destroy all of its air force, Give land to Belgium, France, Denmark and Poland, hand over all colonies, Italy was given the two small areas, new countries were created -
Women In WW1
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. 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.Women had to step up and take the role of a man in factories, building missiles, hauling coal, fire fighting, etc.
