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World War One
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Trench Warfare
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. -
Sinking of Lusitania
A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. -
Zimmerman Note
Was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office. -
Espionage and Sedition
The Espionage Act prohibited people from expressing or publishing opinions that would interfere with the US military’s efforts to defeat Germany and its allies. Next was the Sedition Act which made it illegal to write or speak anything critical of American involvement in the war. This made Americans mad because it violated the first amendment which states we have freedom to say whatever we believe. -
Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu caused the highest number of known flu deaths. More than 500,000 people died in the United States, and 20 million to 50 million people may have died worldwide -
Fourteen
President Woodrow Wilson declaring that WW1 was being fought for a moral cause and calling for peace in Europe. The League of Nation’s task was simple to ensure that war never broke out again. -
Women
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote. This changed America in many ways. Women had to take over jobs that men had because the men were not there to work them.
