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The Start of the war
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which was the main thing that started the war because everyone started claiming a side a declaring war against the others germany was the many one really declaring war -
James frist time
He spent some time in new york it was his first time in new york they had a camp there for military and he talked about how he took the subway something he has never done before and it was only 93 cents and he went to a party -
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Letters
12 million letters were delivered to the frontline every week and it only took two day for letters to get from britain to france frontline and by the -
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Plastic Surgery
Plastic surgery was created because of wwi all the people with battle marks left behind after the war -
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Death and Injured
8 million people died in WWI and 65 million were mobilized during WWI and with 21 million people were also injured in just four years -
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Journlist
Journalist risked their live reporting the war they mostly covered the fortiline but the government told them to stop because they thought it was giving the enemy too much information and if the journalist were caught they would’ve been killed for doing s -
First battle
was when the first battle was it happen it belgium germany they crossed the border and started the war -
Christmas Truce
During the war one christmas the German and british were singing songs to each other and had a unofficials cease-fire and both of them went into no mans land -
United states joined
germany sunk a ship call the Lusitania with hundreds of americans on which was the thing need for the united states to get involved in WWI this happened in 1915 -
Zimmerman Telegram
The zimmerman telegram Is another reason the united state got involved this what set them off and they said they are going to get involved in war heavy the telegram was that germany ask mexico for help in return that they would help them get their land back from the united states but they declined during -
Drafted
James Hopskin was drafted on july 22 1918. James was just 24 years old still living with his parents at the time he was drafted he was a quaker framer and was willing to sever his country and he was also very religos -
Gift
his mom and sister made him a quilt for him during wwi and gave it to him and it was a world pattern . -
The Flu
He had gotten the flu and was hospitalized and wrote every day and said that the person next to mih died but don’t worry about him but he had a 104 fever. -
Duty
His job in the ordinance was guard duty and help with sell testing he was the next group to europe but the armistice happened that day he was just about to leave -
The end of war
The treaty of versailles was another key event in WWI because it was want end the war “the war to end all wars” but that didn’t happen because germany thought they were tricked into signing it and they had all guilt on them and they thought that peace can’t happen unless totally victory.
