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World War 1
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bleed the french army white
the germans launched a huge offensive desgned to bleed the french white by causing unsustainable casualitites -
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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.