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Trench Warfare
in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from trenches dug into the ground. By making weapons and gaining lands. -
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WW1
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Sinking of Lusitania
A German U-boat torpedoed and sunk the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. It contributed to the US entering the war by turning public opinion against Germany. -
Zimmerman Note
A message from the German foreign secretary to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war. It contributed by offering the U.S. territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
Socialists and labor leaders were targeted because they would urge their workers to strike during the war effort for better working conditions and high pay. It violated the 1st amendment by denying freedom of speech. Schenck vs. U.S. court case- that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. constitutions 1st amendment could be restricted. -
Spanish Flu
Was an usually severe and deadly influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. -
Fourteen Points
Was a statement fought for a moral cause and calling peace in Europe. League of Nations- was an international organization founded the Paris peace conference. -
Treaty of Versailles
Was a peace treaty that ended war between Germany and Allied Powers. They had to give up German boundaries reparations. -
Women
granted women the right to vote, prohibiting any U.S. citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. They worked at munitions factories, offices, large hangars build to make aircrafts, and nursing services
