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Sinking of Lusitania
German submarine attack the ship lusitania on british territory.
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Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare is 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. U.S was disgusted at Europe for using such methods of warfare, so they had to enter to end the war. -
Espionage & Sedition Act
The Acts(1917-1918)targeted any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies. This violated the first amendment because the act limited the people's freedom of speech.Schenck v. U.S case is when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken presented to society a present danger. -
Zimmerman Note
The Zimmerman Telegram 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. -
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.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. Though first proposed by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points plan for an equitable peace in Europe, the United States never became a member. -
Spanish Flu
The flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919, 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. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population became sick, and some 675,000 Americans died during the pandemic. -
Treaty of Versailles
After strict enforcement for five years, the French assented to the modification of important provisions. Germany agreed to pay reparations under the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan, but those plans were cancelled in 1932, and Hitler’s rise to power and subsequent actions rendered moot the remaining terms of the treaty. -
Women In WW1
The U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote—a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote.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.
