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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. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I. It has become a byword for stalemate, attrition, sieges and futility in conflict.(1914-19180 -
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Sinking of the Lusitania
Less than a year after World War I (1914-18) erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner on route from New York to Liverpool, England.More than 120 Americans were killed. Nearly two years would pass before the United States formally entered World War I. -
Zimmerman Note
The Zimmerman telegram , a top secret, coded message and was an attempt to draw Mexico into warfare should the United States join the Allies in Europe. The interception and De-coding of the Zimmerman Telegram revealed a promise to the Mexican Government that Germany would help Mexico recover the territory it had ceded to the USA in the Mexican-American War. The Zimmerman telegram sparked nationwide outrage during WW1 and helped to bring about American participation in WW1. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
Both Acts targeted radicals because they made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces’ prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies.They violated freedom of speech(1st amendment). The US Vs. Schenck, he was charged with conspiracy to violate the Espionage Act by attempting to cause insubordination in the military and to obstruct recruitment.(1917 and 1918) -
Spanish Flu
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague. Known as "Spanish Flu", dark spots would appear on the cheeks and patients would turn blue, suffocating from a lack of oxygen as lungs filled with a frothy, bloody substance. -
Fourteen Points
In this January 8, 1918, address to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace. These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war.The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes, though the United States never became a member. -
Treaty of Versailles
A peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920. The Allies demanded “compensation by Germany for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allies and their property by the aggression of Germany by land, by sea and from the air and was forbidden to maintain an air force. -
Women
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage.Women were tremendously important for the work world during this time era as they filled in jobs that men previously held before they went off to fight in the war.
