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Trench Warfare
A type of land warfare using fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. -
Women
Large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. -
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WWI
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Sinking of Lusitania
A German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England. This contributed to the US joining the war because Germany was using restricted naval warfare. -
Zimmerman Note
British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. This contributed to the US joining the war by -
Espionage and Sedition Act
A set of amendments to the Espionage Act, which prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States. It targeted citizens. This violated the 1st amendment because it restricts free speech. -
Spanish Flu
Pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than WWI, at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. -
Fourteen Points
Statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. League of Nations- A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states. -
Treaty of Versailles
The most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.Germany was forced to pay billions of dollars for civilian damages.
