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WWI
- By: Mckayla Wright, Erick Torres, and Bri Fisher
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Trench Warfare
- No man's land is the land in between the allied and the central powers trenches, where the fighting occurred.
- Located in the Western Front
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Sinking of Lusitania
- Germany waged submarine warfare against the UK.
- resulting American death increases pressure on President Wilson to enter WWI.
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Zimmerman Note
- The message came in the form of a coded telegram dispatches by the foreign secretary.
- The United States entered the war because of the Germans' decision to resume the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and the so-called "Zimmerman telegram," intercepted by the British, in which Germany floated the idea of an alliance with Mexico.
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Espionage and Sedition Act
- it targeted the socialists and labor leaders.
- it prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States.
- Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47 (1919), is a United States Supreme Court case concerning enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917 during World War I.
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Treaty of Versailles
- peace treaties at the end of WWI. Ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied powers.
- reparations were the payments required by the Treaty of Versailles.
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Spanish Flu
- deadly influenza pandemic.
- 50,000,000 is the number of people killed
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Women (20th Amendment)
-The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies.
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Fourteen Points
- Statement of principle of world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations.
- The League of Nations was an international organization, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
