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Trench Warfare
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. -
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WWI
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Sinking of Lusitania
Germany sent submarine warfare against the UK, which started a naval blockade of Germany. The wreck killed Americans and angered President Wilson. -
Zimmerman Note
A secret note from the German Foreign Office that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico. The German Minister offered the US Mexican territory if they joined the German military -
Espionage and Sedition Act
an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. Targeted socialists and labor leaders. block the expression of views harmful to the United States. in Schenck v United States in 1919, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Espionage Act did not violate freedom of speech. -
Spanish Flu
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than WW1, at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. The Spanish flu pandemic is the catastrophe against which all modern pandemics are measured. Many people died from this very quickly. Some people who felt well in the morning became sick by noon, and were dead by nightfall. Those who did not succumb to the disease within the first few days often died of complications from the flu -
Fourteen Points
a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. It became the basis for the terms of the German surrender at the end of the First World War -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Ended the actual fighting, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. Germany had to give up the most money and land. -
Women
Guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest
