WW1

By Trent May

  • Sinking of Lusitania

    Sinking of Lusitania
    The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the World War 1, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany.
    The British were allies of the US.

  • Zimmerman Note

    Zimmerman Note
    Zimmerman Note was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
    They were keeping secrets from everyone so the US.

  • Trench warfare

    Trench warfare
    Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.

  • Espionage and Sedition Act

    Espionage and Sedition Act
    The Act made it Illegal to speak poorly about the governments actions during WW1, the act targeted the people, it violated the 1st amendment because it went against free speech.
    The Espionage and Sedition Act targeted people willing to speak there opinion about the war.
    schenck vs us was for the right of free speech happened on March 3, 1919 (schenck obviously won the case)

  • Spanish Flu

    Spanish Flu
    In short the Spanish flu is the deadliest natural disaster in human history.
    The virus infected over 500 million people and of those 500 million over 100 million died, that's about 5% of the human population.

  • Fourteen Points

    Fourteen Points
    The "Fourteen Points" were goals of the US in the peace negotiations after WW1 this was announced by President Woodrow Wilson.
    The League of Nations was an international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. The League, the forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles
    The Treaty of Versailles imposed punitive territorial, military, and economic provisions on defeated Germany. In the west, Germany returned Alsace-Lorraine to France.
    The victorious powers were the United States, Great Britain, France, and other allied states.

  • Women

    Women
    The 19th amendment allowed women to finally vote in general.
    Women's work during WW1 consisted of every vacant "male" job available. As well as jobs to benefit the war effort.