World war 1

World War 1

By ChristianDaniels

  • Allies

    Allies
    AKA the Triple Entente
    Made up of Britain, France, and Russia
    Britain had the strongest navy in the world.
    Russia seen as protector of Europe's Slavic peoples.

  • Central Powers

    Central Powers
    AKA the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy)
    Made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
    Germany became the strongest nation in Europe due to training and drafting young men into the army. Wilhem II wanted to make Germany able to compete with Britain's navy.
    A-H was the rival of Russia over the influence of Serbia.

  • Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    Many ethnic rivalries in the Balkans- Power Kegof Europe
    Russia wants access to Meditterranean Sea, Germany wants a rail link to Ottoman Empire, and A-H would get Bosnia creating tension between Serbia.
    Ferdinand visist Bosnia capital , Sarajevo, when Serbian nationalist Princip shot him for the Black Hand. This caused A-H to declare war on Serbia.

  • Schlieffen Plan

    Schlieffen Plan
    2 front plan of attack by Germany. Hold action against Russia while rushing through Belgium to Paris, then attack Russia after France was defeated so two armies could take control.

  • Sinking of British liner Lusitania

    Sinking of British liner Lusitania
    British blockade German coast to prevent supplies and weapons to get through causing a famine in Germany in 1917.
    Germany responds with a counterblockade of U-boats that would sink any ship found near British waters.
    Lusitania had 1,200 people on board in which 128 were Americans. a U boat attacked it ad Germany said that the liner carried ammunition creating American outrage.

  • Sinking of British Liner Arabic

    Sinking of British Liner Arabic
    Germany sank another British liner which drowned 2 Americans. Germany agrees to not attack anymore passenger ships.

  • Sinking of French passenger liner Sussex

    Sinking of French passenger liner Sussex
    Germany betrays the agreement and topedoes the Sussex killing 80 Americans. US declare that it would not resort to diplomacy anymore if it happened again. Made an agreement in which Germany would not sink ships if the US got Britain to lift its blockade on food and fertilizers.

  • Battle of Somme

    Battle of Somme
    British suffer 60k casusalties on the 1st day-> 1.2 million casualtiesdue to trench warfare. Battle ended 3 months after

  • Zimmerman Note

    Zimmerman Note
    A telegram intercepted by Britain from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador of Mexico. Proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany if US would enter the war. Germany said they would help Mexico get Texas , New Mexico, and Arizona back.

  • Selective Service Act of 1917

    Selective Service Act of 1917
    Allows the national government to create an army for the US to enter World War I. Made it required by law for American citizens to join the army -> draft

  • War Industries Board

    War Industries Board
    The main regulatory body was the War Industries Board. It was established in
    1917 and reorganized in 1918 under the leadership of Bernard M. Baruch, a prosperous
    businessman. The board encouraged companies to use mass­production techniques to
    increase efficiency.

  • Espionage and Sedition Acts

    Espionage and Sedition Acts
    A person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20
    years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or
    abusive about the government or the war effort. These laws clearly violated the spirit
    of the First Amendment.

  • Convoy System

    Convoy System
    American Vice Admiral William S. Sims convinced the
    British to try the convoy system, in which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant
    ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups.

  • Second Battle of the Marne

    Second Battle of the Marne
    The tide had turned against the Central Powers. In September, U.S. soldiers
    began to mount offensives against the Germans at Saint­Mihiel and in the Meuse­Argonne
    area.

  • National War Labor Board

    National War Labor Board
    Workers who refused to obey board decisions could lose their draft
    exemptions. “Work or fight,” the board told them. However, the board also worked to
    improve factory conditions. It pushed for an eight­hour workday, promoted safety
    inspections, and enforced the child labor ban.

  • Food Administration

    Food Administration
    To help produce and conserve food, Wilson set up the Food Administration
    under Herbert Hoover. Instead of rationing food, he called on people to follow the “gospel
    of the clean plate.”

  • Committee on Public Information

    Committee on Public Information
    To popularize the war, the government set up the nation’s first propaganda
    agency, the Committee on Public Information (CPI). Creel persuaded the nation’s artists
    and advertising agencies to create thousands of paintings, posters, cartoons, and
    sculptures promoting the war.

  • Austria‐Hungary Surrenders to the Allies

    Austria‐Hungary Surrenders to the Allies
    On November 3, 1918, Austria­Hungary surrendered to the Allies. That same
    day, German sailors mutinied against government authority. The mutiny spread quickly.

  • Establishment of the German Republic

    Establishment of the German Republic
    On November 9, socialist leaders in the capital, Berlin, established a German
    republic. The kaiser gave up the throne

  • Cease‐fire and Armistice

    Cease‐fire and Armistice
    Germany agreed to a cease­fire and signed the armistice, or truce, that ended the war.