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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 the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I. No man's land is a space in between opposing forces. The trenches were on the western front in Germany, France, and Belgium. -
Sinking of Lusitania
The British Admiralty had secretly subsidized her construction and she was built to Admiralty specifications with the understanding that at the outbreak of war the ship would be consigned to government service. As war clouds gathered in 1913, the Lusitania quietly entered dry dock in Liverpool and was fitted for war service. A german submarine near Ireland fired a torpedo and sank her and killed some american citizens. -
ZImmerman Note
In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. This message helped draw the United States into the war and changed the course of history. -
Fourteen Points
It was a statement of principles for world peace used in peace negotiations during WW1 in order to end the war. The League of Nations was an international organization, the headquarters was located in Geneva. It was created after WW1 to resolve international disputes. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
It targeted people who went against the U.S. during war. It violated the First Amendment because it violated freedom of speech. The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech." In the Schenck v. US court case, the Supreme Court decided that the Espionage Act did not violate the First Amendment. -
Spanish flu
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. -
19th amendment
Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Women fought for the right to vote because they took jobs that men at war couldn't take care of. -
treaty of versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Germany had to give up the lands they had taken and had to give up their military.
