WW1

By knorwood03
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    Woodrow Wilson

    He was the 28th president and led America through World War 1. Wilson tried to keep the United States neutral during World War I but ultimately called on Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917.

  • Airplanes

    Airplanes
    They wanted to attack far into enemy territory, and both sides began bombing campaigns against military and industrial targets.

  • Artillery

    Artillery concentration was common, with several guns firing onto an area such as a line of trenches, each gun firing several rounds per minute for hours.

  • Italy(allied)

    Italy(allied)
    Italy should have joined on the side of the Central Powers when war broke out in August 1914 but instead declared neutrality.

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    He was the heir of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. He was assassinated by a Serbian named principal Sarajevo in 1914. This event sparked a series of actions that led to the beginning of WWI.

  • Gas Mask

    Gas Mask
    One was made as a result of poison gas attacks that took the Allies in the trenches on the Western Front by surprise. ... As the months passed and the use of poison gas occurred more frequently, more sophisticated masks were developed and introduced.

  • Tanks

    Tanks
    WW1 tanks were very slow and couldn't exceed 4 miles an hour. Tanks in WW1 played an extremely important role as they increased mobility on the Western Front and eventually broke the stalemate of trench warfare.

  • russia

    Russia's disastrous involvement in World War I was a primary factor that led to Vladimir Lenin's successful Marxist revolution in November 1917. In December 1917, Germany agreed to an armistice and peace talks with Russia, and Lenin sent Leon Trotsky to Brest-Litovsk in Belarus to negotiate a treaty.

  • France

    France
    It was inevitable that France would join the war. The French and the Russians had been in a military alliance for some time. Germany declared war on Russia on August 1st, 1914 when Russia refused to demobilize its army.

  • Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin of Russia

    Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin of Russia
    . He found the people of Russia in poverty, and he figured that the best way to solve the problem was to submit Russia into communism. Though his success, Russia became the Soviet Union, and the US felt more comfortable in joining them against Germany.

  • John J. Pershing

    John J. Pershing
    Lead the Allied Powers in WWI. The highest ranking military person other than George Washington & trained Allied leaders for WWII (Marshall, Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton)