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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. -
Sinking of Lusitania
British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. -
Zimmerman Note
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
the espionage and sedition acts prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States ... or the flag of the United States. these acts mostly targeted socialists and labor leaders. It violated the 1st amendment by taking away the freedom of speech. In the Schenck v. US court case it was ruled that the espionage act did not violate the freedom of speech. -
Spanish flu
The Spanish flu was the first H1N1 pandemic. It was deadly due to its unusually aggressive nature. It infected over 500 million people and killed 50 to 100 million people.3-5% of the earths population. -
The fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. 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 alike. -
Treaty of Versaillies
The Treaty of Versailles was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war.
The German Government estimated it had paid the equivalent of 67.8 billion gold marks in reparations. -
women in the war
The 19th amendment is a very important amendment to the constitution as it gave women the right to vote. During WWI, large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories.
