WWI

By katieandtes
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    WWI

    :Stinking of Lusitania
    :Zimmermann Note
    :Trench warfare
    :Women
    :Espionage and Sedition Act
    :Spanish Flu
    :Fourteen Points
    :Treaty of Versailles

  • Trench Warfare

    -Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.

    -Trench warfare was used in U.S involvement.

  • Sinking of Lusitana

    -German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitana, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.
    -Contributed to U.S. entering the war because the U.S sunk the ship.

  • Zimmermann Note

    -Internal diplomatic communication issued from the German foreign office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the U.S. entering WWI.

  • Spanish Flu

    The Spanish Flu was the modern day black plague. 50,000,000 people died because of the Spanish Flu.

  • Fourteen Points

    Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace to end WW1.

  • Espionage and Sedition Act

    Espionage and Sedition Act targeted enemy during war and immigrants from central power. It violated the first amendment because the constitutionality of the law it's relationship to free speech, and it's meaning of it's language to have been contested in court.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty between Germany and Allied Powers. Germany had to makes payments for damage done during the war

  • Women

    The 19th Amendment to the constitution of the U.S. providing women with equal voting right. Many women worked in factories during the war.