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Trench warfare
Trench warfare is a type of fighting where both sides build deep trenches as a defense against the enemy. These trenches can stretch for many miles and make it nearly impossible for one side to advance. The US entered the war because they are allies with the British. -
Sinking of Lusitania
A German boat torpedoed and sank the Lusitania. More than 1,900 passengers and crew members were on board more than 1,100 died including more than 120 Americans. -
Zimmerman Note
The Zimmerman Note was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. The Zimmerman telegram threatened the U.S. territories shifting public sentiment in favor of the Allied Powers of Great Britain, France and Russia. -
Spanish Flu
Disease affected an estimated five hundred million people world wide which was about one third of the worlds population. It killed an estimated twenty to fifty million people. The Spanish flu was a influenza caused by an influenza virus of type A. -
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. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
The Espionage and Sedition Act made it illegal to speak out against the war. The Espionage and Sedition Act targeted socialists and labor leaders. It violated the first amendment which is freedom of speech. In Schenck v. United States in 1919, the Supreme Court ruled that the Espionage Act did not violate freedom of speech. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The reparations were Germany had to pay to repair all the damage of the war. -
Women in the war
The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. Women's jobs in the war included the following railway guards and ticket collectors, buses and tram conductors, postal workers, police, firefighters clerks. Some women worked heavy or precision machinery in engineering, led cart horses on farms, and worked in the civil service and factories. Although women were doing the same job as men they were not paid equally.
