World War 1

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    World War 1

  • bleed the french army white

    the germans launched a huge offensive desgned to bleed the french white by causing unsustainable casualitites
  • Period: to

    bleed the french army white

    the germans launched a huge offensive designed to bleed the french army white by causing unsustainable casualities

  • U.S arms sales increase

    The U.S. arms sales to the allies had reached $500 million, about 80 times the amount sold in 1914

  • Battle of Somme

    This 4 month battle left more than 1 million dead. the allied powers launched a hge offensive near the Somme river in northern france

  • Germans Get U-boat

    Germans resumed full scale U-boat war. They said that thier uU-boat could defeat thier allies before the us could join the war.

  • Senate declared war

    The house followed two days later. Six senatorsand 50 reprsentatives opposed the declaration

  • Selective Service act

    it required local men of 21-30 to register with the local draft boards

  • The global impact of the war

    Britain issued a Balfour declaration in 1917 which declared that british support for a jewish home in palestine

  • Fourteen points

    A program for world peace.

  • National war labor

    Composed of representaivees from business and labor, the NWLB arbitrated disputes between works and employers

  • Sedition Act

    outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to publish any abusive or disloyal language

  • Battle of argonne forest

    the keaisers realizing that the war was lost feld to the netherlands.