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causes of world war 1
Mutual Defense Alliances;working with other country's and getting agrements with what they do and agree on.
Imperialism;is when a country increases their power an wealth by bringing additional territories under their control.
Militarism;a strong military and organization in aggressive preparedness for war.
Nationalism;is loyalty to his or her's own nation.(patriotism) -
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The assassination of Francis Ferdinand
video of assationation Franz Ferdinad went to Sarajevo to inspect the Austro-Hungarian troops. A Serbian group felt they should assassinate Archduke. The terrorists tried throwing grenades but it did not his his car. It was another terrorist, Gavrilo Princip who fired two shots. The first hit his wife and the second hit him. They both died. -
Allies vs. Central Powers
The Allies- france, Russia, Italy, Britain, Austrailia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Serbia, and soon to come USA. The Central Powers- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, and Romania but Romania switched sides haft way through. -
3 New Weapons
Tanks- the tanks were a big impact.They couldnt shot throught them or throw stuff at them. But the tank would have one obstical to over come and that was the trenches./Gas-the first kind of gas was tear gas it was a big impact because the Americans didnt know what to do and people were dropping but then they invent the gas mask./Machine Guns- were used heavily in the trenches because they could set it up so if they had people getting out of the trenches into no mans land they could just unload. -
Women's Roles
during the war the women were brought into the labor force. Many women worked in ammunition factories. They had to deal with explosive chemicals and worked long hours. The women at home also had to take over the farming. Women also sewed bandages and sold war bonds. -
Trench Warfare
For along time they lived in the trenches for along strech of a time. the conditions were wet and muddy and cold. There was lots of dead people which attracked the rats and the rats would most likely carry diseases. Every once and a while people would jump out of the trenches into no mans land. -
fighting begins
World War 1 started with the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The war started in Subia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLZWVG2BVIc
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British Blockade
The British declared the Norht Sea a combat area on November 3, 1914. The British blockade was designed to hurt the German economy. Food shortages became severe in 1916. This led to malnutrition and starvation, The British also layed minefields to sink the German ships. -
Lusitania
The Lusitania made the voyage from Liverpool to New York. Constuction begain with the goal of building the fastest boat around. The engine produced 68,000 horse power and an average speed of over 25 knots. They thought they wouldn't have to worry about submarine warfar because it was so fast. Than the ship enterd Ireland and a torpedo fired by the Germans submarine, The captain of the submarine was Walter Schwiegar. -
Great Migration
who-African-Americans, More than 1 million blacks
where-moved from the south to the northeast and midwest
why-during ww1 the European immigrants slowed coming to the U.S. at which time the U.S. needed industrial workers. video
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election of 1916
Woodrow Wilson was a Democratic party and won the election with 277 Electoral votes being 277 and 9,129,606. Charles E. Hughes was with the Republican party and had 254 Electoral votes and 8,538,221 Popular Votes.The Election was taking place right away when Europe was embroiled in World War 1. One thing that the americans like about Wison was his slogan "He kept us out of war" -
Zimmermann Note
The zimmerman note was really a telegram it was sent from a German official in Germany to a official in Mexico asking him to join the aliance with Germans. The Germans told them that they would heop get USA back to for the Mexicans, bit it wasen't Germany asking them to attack USA. But than the English government intersepted it and showed it to the media which basically gorced Amercia into war. -
America Joins the Fight
German's renewed it's unrestricted submarine warfar. Even the U.S. which was a neutral country would be a target when their ships were trading. President Wilson was also concerned of the proposed German plan to aliy with mexico. -
CPI
CPI is short for Committee on Public Information.
Public unity was a primary concern when America entered the war. So on April 13, 1917 Wilson ceated the CPI. This was to promote the war at nome and abroad. -
selective service act
The Selective Service Act was passed by the Congress of the United States. It wanted the fedral government to raise a national army, numbering in the thousands than canceld at the end of the war. -
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Espionage Act- it would be acrime for any person to give information that would interfere with the U.S. forces. Or to help the enemy country to success.
Sedition Act-was in may 16, 1918- imposed penalties on anyone found guilty of false statements that interfered with the war. Insulting the U.S. government or flag,military. -
WIB
WIB-an agency established by the government of the U.S. to fulfill the materials that are necessary for war.
Leaders-Frank Scott was the first than replaced by Daniel Willard then in 1918 it was given to Bernard Baruch.
Examples-the WIB managed the labors by giving good wages to avoid strikes.The WIB persuaded companies to increase manufacturing of war products. It also balanced the materials needed for war and the U.S. people. -
14pts
auther President Woodrow Wilson
1.No secret agreements/2.you could freely navigate all seas/3.no economic barriers between countries/4.countries had to reduce their number of weapons./5.colonies decisions should be importial/6.german army needed to leave russia/7.belgium should be independent again/8.france will be liberated/9.allitalians woild be allowed to live in Italy./10the people of austria-hungary be safeguarded and assured./11.rumania,serbia and montenegro be evacuated. -
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new countries yugoslavia and czechoslovakia,poland -
Armistice
Armistice means an end of hostilites and a beginnig of peace negotiations.
In ww1 the armistice is referring to the agreement between the Germans and Allies to end of the war. video
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Big 4
David Lloyd George Britain
Georges Clemenceau of France
President Woodrow Wilson of the United States
Vittorio Orlando of Italy -
Treaty of Versailles
pros-to keep peace
cons-left anger throughout germany because they thought they weren't treated fair. Germans felt they were punished because of their government.
terms-there were 440 clauses in the final treaty. The first 26 clauses referred to the establishment of the league of nations.The other 414 clauses eplained Germany's punishment. -
final statistics
8 million soilders died and 7 million permanently disabled costed billions of dollars and many years to rebuild Europe -
Schenck vs United States
A socialist, Charled Schenck tried to distribute thousands of fliers to American service men that were recently drafted during ww1. The fliers suggested the war was moticaated by geed and involuntary servitude.
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League of Nations
purpose-to make sure the war never broke out again and bring stability to the world.
author-president woodrow wilson
points-if there was a dispute the league could call states in the disagreement to discuss problem, the league could imply economic sanctions. The league could introduce Physical sanctions
