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Trench Warfare
This is a type of warfare on land where soldiers dug 4-5 foot trenches, or fox holes, in the ground to protect soldiers from oncoming fire when shooting back. This could also protect them from artillery if there were underground tunnels. But this also led to having soldiers in a lined up area, letting the opposing enemy send heavy fire and artillery down the trenches, keeping the soldiers pinned down with no movement of the line. -
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The Great War
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Women in World War 1
During the great war, the men served in the armies overseas and using supplies. The women were left home to take charge in the factories and make the supplies to help the overseas soldiers and keep the country working. This led to women working "men's work" and caused demands for equal pay and after the war, the women's suffrage movement -
sinking of Lusitania
A British ocean liner Lusitania was torpedoed with no warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes the ship sank into the Celtic Sea. out of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 were drowned, 128 of those were Americans.
Americans were shaken that Americans were casualties of a war we were not in yet. -
The Zimmerman Note
Also known as the Zimmerman Telegram or Cable, it was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
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Spanish Flu
The influenza or flu pandemic from 1918 to 1919, considered the deadliest in modern history. The infected was estimated at around 500 million people world-wide which was about 1/3rd of the planets population at the time. This killed approximately 20-50 million victims. More than 25% of the U.S population became sick and about 675,000 Americans died during this. Many victims were young or healthy adults. At the time there were no effective vaccines to treat this or prevent further spread. -
Fourteen Points
In response to the October Revolution in Russia in 1917, Early January of 1918 both British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and President Woodrow Wilson issued public explanations that was hoped to accomplish through a victory over the central powers. The speech talks about the points that are in the attached picture. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
Enacted by the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offences of slander about the United States. -
Schenck v. US
Charles T. Schenck was general secretary of the U.S socialist party who opposed the military draft in the United States. So they printed thousands of papers saying to resist the military draft and Charles was arrested for violating the Espionage Act. Schencks counsel argued that the Espionage Act was unconstitutional and that their client was just exercising freedom of speech. The conviction was upholded on a unanimous vote. -
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty is what ended The Great War. This was negotiated among the Allied powers while Germany paid little participation in it. Its 15 parts and 440 articles had reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. The French wanted to dismember Germany and make it impossible for it to renew war with France.
Later the treaty will be basically thrown out the window due to Hitlers rise of power and later invading Poland causing WW2 to underway
