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WW1
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Trench Warfare
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 -
Sinking of Lusitania
Less than a year after WW1, a German U-Boat torpedoed and sank the RMS L. U-Boats sink the L in 1915 because they were believed to smuggling arms, anger at American deaths increases pressure on Wilson to enter WW1 -
Zimmermann Note
British cryptographers deciphered telegram from German foreign minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German minister to Mexico, Von Eckhardt, offering US territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.
We were afraid Mexico would invade us. -
Fourteen Points
It was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The League of Nations was proposed from the Fourteen Points. -
Spanish Flu
Attacked ages 20 to 40. 28% infected. An unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of two pandemics involving the H1N1 influenza virus. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
Socialists and labor leaders because they interfered with the war effort.
It restricted military operations and military support.
The Schenck v. US court case concerned the enforcement of espionage. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was a peace treaty written at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It basically stated that Germany must assume all blame for the war and they must repay all the allies. -
Women
The amendment prevented the denial of the right to vote based on sexuality. Women would take men's jobs when they went in to fight in the war and also became paramedics in the war.
