WWI Major Events

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1914	Causes of World War 1	WW1 causes Imperialism-Extending economic, military power, & political control over weaker nations. Millitarism-Development of armed forces & their use as tools of diplomacy. Alliance System-Formal agreement or union between nations. Nationalism-Devotion to the interest & culture of one nation.
01/01/1914	Map	Two new countries in Europe were Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Countries before the war, France, Germany, Britain, Austria-Hungary, Russia, U.S.A, and Italy. A lot of things disappeared after WW1, but many countries stayed and were added.
06/28/1914	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand was killed by Gravillo Prinsip. He wanted a reason for them to go to war with Serbia.
07/28/1914	Allies v Central Powers	VideoTriple Entente or Allies Triple Alliance -France -Germany -Britain -Austria-Hungary -Russia -Italy (Becomes good guy) -USA - + Ottoman Empire=Central Powers -Turkey later joins
08/04/1914	Brittish Naval Blockade	Bristish Blockade The Britsh Blockade was when the Britsh put a blockade on German ports and stopped neutral ships on the seas to examine cargoes. The Germans claimed that over 763,000 civilians died from starvation. They said it also caused many uprisings in Germany. The blockade continued even after the Armistice of 11 November 1918, in order to force Germany to sign the controversial Treaty of Versailles in June 1919.
08/05/1914	Where the Fighting began.	Video The battle was called the Battle of Liege, Belgium.
10/29/1914	Trench Warfare	Trench Warfare Trench WarfareThe conditions during trench warfare were terrible. It was very unsanitary. The smell of rotting bodies, lice, rats, and diseases. Over 200,000 men died in the trenches and battles of WW1, but most died from the diseases that were brought to them from the unsanitary conditions in the trenches.
05/07/1915	Lusitania	Lusitania Lusitania was a passenger ship traveling to Europe. The Germans sent out a warning if the ship enters the war zone they could be shot down and sunk. Two ships were sunk carrying American citizens not only once, but twice and the United States entered the war. They say the Germans were the ones to blame.
01/01/1916	Great Migration	Leader of the Great Migration was Marcus Garvey. The Great Migration, a long-term movement of African Americans from the South to the urban North, North, offered freedom from legally sanctioned racial discrimination, but industrial employers turned away African Americans who approached the factory gates.
11/07/1916	Election of 1916	Election of 1916 Woodrow Wilson won the election of 1916 because he stated that he had kept us out of war.
01/01/1917	3 New Weapons	Three new weapons that were used in WW1 were flamethrowers, gas and gas masks, and maching guns. The basic idea of a flamethrower is to spread fire by launching burning fuel. It was better used from a closer distance rather then far away. It was used to set alarm to enemy territories and to kill and could clear out any enemy territories. Poison gas was one of the most feared weapons in WW1. It was more of an irriatant rather then to kill. It would leave the people in agony and less usefull.
01/01/1917	Womens's Roles	Video Women took care of the the farms. They worked the fields and took care of the hosue and kids while their husbands nwere away at war. It wasn't always easy and it took a lot of work.
01/16/1917	Zimmermann Note	Zimmermann Note The Zimmermann Note was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States. The proposal was caught by the British before it could get to Mexico.
04/06/1917	America Joins the War	America joins the war First the sinking of the Lusitania and then when they found the Zimmermann note from Germany to Mexico. They were hesitant to announce it at first because Wilson had kept them out of the for so long.
04/13/1917	CPI	Committee on Public Information was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I. Words, pictures, songs, parades, and many similar devices are the typical means of making propaganda. Woodrow Wilson was the leader of this group. They used propaganda. Examples- "is, if at first they do not enrage, use an atrocity. It has been employed with unvarying success in every conflict known to man."
06/15/1917	Espionage Act & Sedition Act	The Espionage originally prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support U.S. enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment. The Sedition Act of 1918 covered a broader range of offenses.
07/28/1917	WBI	The War Industries Board was to coordinate the purchase of war supplies. The organization encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products. The board was led initially by Frank A. Scott. Example- War Industries Board regulated the two to decrease tensions by stopping strikes with wage increases to prevent a shortage of supplies going to the war in Europe.
11/17/1917	Selective Service Act	This was for men staritng at a young age to go and fight in WW1. 24 million men signed up to go to war, but only three million were drafted.
11/11/1918	Armistice	The armistice between the Allies and Germany was an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War. It was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918 and marked a victory for the Allies and a complete defeat for Germany, although not technically a surrender
11/21/1918	14 Points	14 points The Fourteen Points was a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson. Summary of the 14 pts covenants of peace, territorial waters, economic barriers, national armaments will be reduced, sovereignty, Russian territory, Belgium, French, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro, Ottoman Empire, Polish populations, and general association.
01/01/1919	Big 4	United States, France, Great Britain, and Italy. Leaders were Woodrow Wilson of the United States, David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Georges Clemenceau of France.
01/10/1919	League of Nations	VideoThe League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Woodrow Wilson was the author of this.
03/03/1919	Schenck v United States	Video Charles Schenck was responsible for printing, distributing, and mailing to prospective military draftees during World War I, including 15,000 leaflets that advocated opposition to the draft. The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., held that Schenck's criminal conviction was constitutional. The First Amendment did not protect speech encouraging insubordination.
06/28/1919	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 ended actual fighting. Germany had to accept responsibility for causing the war. It cost lots of money to pay off everything.
01/10/1920	Final Statistics	Final Statistics All countries totaled together. Mobalized forces- 65,038,810 Killed/Died-8,538,315 Wounded-21,219,452 Prisoners/Missing-7,750,919 Total $-7,750,919