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Trench Warfare
Trench warfare, warfare in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground. The opposing systems of trenches are usually close to one another. -
Sinking of Lusitania
On May 7, 1915, 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 en route from New York to Liverpool, England. -
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. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
Actually 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 the US and violated the 1st amendment by not letting people have freedom of speech. Schenck v. United States was the first in a line of Supreme Court Cases defining the modern understanding of the First Amendment. -
Spanish Flu
The deadliest in modern history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet's population at the time–and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. Was a type of flu/influenza pandemic that was spread easily and caused many deaths. -
Fourteen Points
Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson announced the Fourteen Points to Congress in early 1918. 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
Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, & all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. On June 28, 1919, Germany & the Allied Nations signed the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the war.Germany had to pay to repair all the damage of the war. To the victors, it seemed fair. Germany had caused – and in Clause 231 had accepted the blame for the war. Italy was split and each country had to give up land. -
Women During WW1
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
During the war, women went out and get jobs working in factories.
