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Trench warefare
when armies of millions of men faced each other in a line of trenches extending from the Belgian coast through northeastern France to Switzerland -
sinking of louitania
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. -
zimmermann note
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The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note) was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office -
espionage and sedition act
The Espionage and Sedition Acts targeted socialists and labor leaders. It acted against freedom of speech the 1st amendment. Then Schenck mailed circulars to draftees. The circulars suggested that the draft was a monstrous wrong motivated by the capitalist system. -
fourteen points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. 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. -
Spanish FLu
The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.
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Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Germany had to give up what they won in the last battle. -
Women
The total number of people who served in the armed forces during the war was estimated at about 92 million. Figures for some of the nations are the Soviet Union, 22 million; Germany, 17 million; the United States, 14 million; and Britain, 12 million
