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Trenches
The Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman said “War is hell,” William was referring to the war general about the trench warfare. The trenches had to long, deep just for defenses. There was a thing called no mans land if no ones gets in the no mans land it’s a stalemate -
Archduke Assassination
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie went on a trip to Sarajevo, Bosnia to help show that the land was part of Austria-Hungary. When they were there they attended a parade they were shot and killed on June 28th, 1914 by Black hand terrorist national group. They were shot because the Black hand group were Serbians and thought that the territory should belong to Serbia. Austria blamed Serbia and declared was on them. -
first tank
On this day in 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only two miles per hour. However, improvements were made to the original prototype and tanks eventually transformed military battlefields. -
Lusitania Sinks
May 7, 1915 the British ocean lusitania was attacked by a german submarine off the coast of ireland. It sank into the celtic sea all th 1,959 passengers and all the crew members died by drowning with a 128 americans. That was when the britain entered the battle. -
Zimmerman Telegram
Germany made an offer for mexico but they declined it the offer but the outrage of western hemisphere pushed the public opinion which the can support the war. Arthur Zimmermann a German foreign secretary that was having a really bad day at work on january 1917 he sent a telegram to the opposite thing which he wasn’t supposed to do. -
Germany and Russia's Peace
On March 3 1918 the city of Brest-Litovsk or Russia signed a peace treaty with the central powers. armistice was reached in the early december 1917 formal ceasefire declared december 15 and determining peace with both russia and the central powers. mid february it all broke down with an angry trotsky and deemed at the central power. -
SECOND BATTLE OF THE MARNE IN WORLD WAR I
There were more the 25,000 yankees manned the left of what was the allied lines when germany was trying to attempt to crash 20-miles in front of Montdidier and Noyon on the 9 of June. 270,000 would fight the tide-turning Second Battle of the Marne in the july. -
Meuse- Argonne Forest
Notes:The battle of Meuse- Argonne Forest
it started on september 12, 1918 and ended on october 10, 1918 it was the last battle of the war. The Americans had to deal with opticals in the Argonne Forest could have small groups of germans in the bushes. There was one of the platoon was taking machine gun fire the sharpshooting corporal Alvin york pick off all gunners one by one. york’s story was turned into a movie; most the Meuse-Argonne. -
Armistice Day aka Veterans Day
On November 11th in 1919 on the 11th hour, the Treaty of Versailles was signed to end the WWI. A year later, Woodrow Wilson declared that November 11th would be a day to remember what happened and became a memorial day. I was celebrated at 11 a.m. years later with parades and with communities coming together. Armistice Day turned into a national holiday known as Veterans Day in 1938 to celebrate all military personnel who fought in any wars. -
Harry Truman
In 1922, Harry Truman, with the backing of Kansas City political boss Thomas Pendergast (1873-1945), was elected district judge in Jackson County, Missouri, an administrative position that involved handling the county’s finances, public works projects and other affairs.
