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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. This contributed to the US entering the war because of the German style of lightning fast warfare and protection the trenches provided. -
Sinking of Lusitania
The Lusitania was a cruise liner that was sunk by German submarines. This contributed the the U.S. joining the war because of the Americans aboard the ship, who died, as it was sunk. -
Zimmerman Note
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. This contributed to the U.S entering the war because Germany was trying to get Mexico to invade the U.S. -
Espionage and Sedition act
" prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States ... or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy" This violated the first amendment of free speech because it jailed most anyone for talking bad about the government. Schenck v. United States was the first in a line of Supreme Court Cases defining the modern understanding of the First Amendment. -
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. -
Influenza (Spanish Flu)
An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy. An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza. 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace. -
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.The treaty forced Germany to disarm, make substantial territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers. -
19th Amendment
"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." Women were also working in factories during the war to produce many of the things that America needed, and thus sparked Rosy The Riveter.
