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Roy Crowdy Avery
Roy was born in 1885 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Roy recived an A.B degree from the Univiersity of Connecticut and B.S the Univiersity of Mass. and PhD degree from vanderblit. Roy became a natrualized citizen in 1917 and join the U.S army -
Franz Ferdinand Assassination
this was june 1 1914. franz ferdinand and his wife were visting the bosnian capital of sara sevo. a bosnian revolutionary named gario princp rush thier open car annd shot the couple to the death. the "black hand" wanted to start a war and bring down the austro-hungrian empire -
Machine Guns
produced by the british with mobility in mind were vickers gun. A heavy machine gun, the minimum six man ream to operate. american-invented lewis vickers lighter but less trustworthy off spring -
Tactical Air Support
first they were kitty hawks, those new fungled flying contrapions called areoplanes were being used. soon both sides were using them for bombs and guns. the planes started fighting in the air. -
Posien Gas
first used by the Germans during the battle of second ypres in 1915. gas actually proved largely inffective as a traditional weapon. it depended on the weather conditions when you were going to get. -
Sanitary Napkins
they were used to suck up the blood instead of killing. they were produced by suger cane.they also were used as field bandages. -
German Submarine Sinks The Custiania
the issue reached a crisis on may 7 1915 when the british passenger ship lusitania entered war zone, a german submarine sunk the ship killing nearly 1,200 passners including 128 americans. late in march 1916 wilsons policy was tested when a u-boat was torpedoed the french passenger ship sussex injuing americans. -
Tanks
they were called "landships" in the 1915s but they really werent used. they were first used sep. 16 during the battle of flers-courcelette. by 1918 the tanks corps was established, garneing almost 30,000 members by the end of the war -
Battle Of Verdun
this battle was fought from feb. 21st-dec. 18 1916. germany wanted fort douaumont and fort vaux. they claimed it after brutal subterranean. french retook thier forts and pushed them back to there line. -
Congress Passed Sedition Act
this happend in may 16 1918. congress passed the seditions act, a pieace of legislation designed to protect the americans particpation in ww1. shortly after that the espionage act in early 1917 -
U.S. Enters The War
on april 6 1917 the U.S joined its allies-britain , france, and russia to fight in ww1. more than 2 million u.s soldiers fought on battlefileds in france. many americans were not in favor of the u.s entering the war -
NO SLEEP
He was sleeping in a hammoch. Attcked by 2 German U-boats. and he said on the day " water of the the sea was a pale green color -
MIDNIGHT
He was wokin from his sleep at midnight and he said "hell broke loose". he saw violent explosions and the sky red with glare from guns. The few that got wounded were comimg in. -
Still Firing
The boche were still shooting on them. 1 1/2 million dollars worth american shells went over to bohe in the last few days. small raiding party went across & found no boche 4 miles along the line -
Paris
In Paris going to get verification as to armistiy. A boche plane overtook them on the road. He went to take cover at the nearest cellur. They were killing droping bombs and kill f4 of them.
