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Trench warfare
Is a type of land warfare that was used in ww1 by ussing 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. -
sinking of luisitania
It was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. The vessel sank into the Celtic Sea and of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans. When Germany torpedoes a British passenger ship believed to be smuggling arms, anger at the resulting American deaths increases pressure on President Wilson to enter World War I. -
Zimmerman Note
It was a secret diploma that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany. British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. -
fourteen points
The principles was a speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. Europeans generally welcomed Wilson's points but his main Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism. -
Spanish Flu
The influenza killed more people than the Great War at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. Influenza is a major cause of sickness and death around the world and is one of the most important infectious diseases confronting the world today. The symptoms are sudden onset, fever, sore throat, fatigue, muscle aches, inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, and cough. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
The Espionage and Seditiona Acts targeted socialists and labor leaders. It introduced a violation of freedom of opinion, it was aimed at reducing individual liberties to prevent dissent in the war effort that the US had joined.In Schenck v. US court case Court ruled on March 3, 1919, that the freedom of speech protection afforded in the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment could be restricted if the words spoken or printed represented to society a “clear and present danger. -
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 ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.Germany had to pay to repair all the damage of the war. To the victors, it seemed fair. Germany had caused and in Clause 231 had accepted the blame for the war. -
Women
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. During WWI large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. The jobs were mostly in factories.
