-
Women's rights/ Work Force
while all the men were drafted to the military, Women of america had to take all the vacant jobs and make up for the lose of workers in the end women kept america stable and powerful during the world war -
Period: to
WW1
-
Sinking of Lusitania
The ship RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat causing the US to enter the world war -
Zimmermann Note
it was a document that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico prompting the US to declare war on Germany -
Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu was a pandemic that killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide. This flu was very strange because it killed healthy, young people instead of children and elderly. This was because it provoked a very strong immune response, killing the person. That's why children and the elderly survived, because their immune systems were weaker. -
Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a Statement of principles for world peace that the League of Nations read on January 8, 1918 to end World War 1. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
The Espionage Act was meant to prevent the support of US enemies, while the Sedition Act was enacted to cover a broader range of offenses. In a court case Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that handing out leaflets that discouraged draft-age men to go into service was a criminal offence -
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty was one of the peace treaties that ended the war between the Allies and Germany. Germany had to give up all of its territories, was not allowed to have a large army, and had to pay for the war. -
Trench Warfare
A battle tactic that used trenches dugout systems opposing each other along a front, protected from assault by barbed wire, mines, and other obstacles. The area between opposing trench lines (known as "no man's land") was fully exposed to artillery fire from both sides. Attacks, even if successful, often sustained severe casualties most used on the western front 1914- 1918
