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| May 7th, 1915 A british passenger ship entered the warzone, a german submarine sunk the ship killing many people, including americans - forcing wilson to state that if germans dont stop with the ship sinking and submarine warfare, they will risk a war with the united states |
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| Was called and met with the foreign policy goals of both germany and president woodrow wilson by keeping the united states out of the far for a little longer |
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| in 1917 a german official named arthur zimmerman sent a telegram to the german ambassador in mexico asking him to make an offer to the mexican government. british intelligence intercepted this telegram and then leaked it to american newspapers pushing the united states to war |
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| Germany wanted to invade france and bring troops to russia to deal with them, the schlieffen plan didnt work |
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| William Taft and Frank Welsh |
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| Henry Ford sent company agents to the south to recruit blacks with promises of high wages and lots of work, this convinced blacks to leave south and go to the northern cities |
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| Committee on Public Information |
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| Selective Service Act of 1917 |
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| it required all men between 21-30 to register for the draft and a random lottery determined the order in which they were called before a local draft in charge of selecting or exempting people from military service |
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| American Soldiers nickname in WWI |
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| Signed by lenin, under this treaty russia lost substantial territory, it gave up ukraine, its polish and baltic territories and finland |
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| American Expeditionary Force |
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Plan that president wilson proposed to congress it explained the goals of the united states in the war, were based on the principle of justice to all people and their nationalities
-Germany forced to take blame for starting WWI
-germany is required to pay reparations to the allies
-germany not allowed self-determination
-germany loses colonies in africa, middle east and asia
-Austria-Hungary and ottoman empire broken up
-League of nations established |
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- eliminate causes of the war
-grant self determination
- est. a league of nations |
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Central Powers- Germany Austria Hungary Bulgaria Ottoman empire
Allies- france russia GB italy US |
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| the leagues member nations would help preserve peace by pledging to respect and protect eachothers territory and political independence |
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| involved 27 countries, dominated by "the big four" (US, GB, FRANCE, ITALY) it included wilsons peace plan, and the 14 points. wilson loses the treaty in the senate because they had a problem with the league of nations. |
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| people feared of a communist revolution and it caused a nationwide panic, americans had been suspicious of communist ideas, many strikes were held hurting many people |
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Bolshevik revolution at home forces a government change, czar nicolas II replaced by communist leader Lenin
lenin pulls russia from the war and proposes the treaty of brest litovsk |
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| Imperialism, Alliances, Nationalism, Militarism |
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| Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
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| visiting bosnia, shot by serbian nationalist gavirilo princip. serbia looking for a war to bring down AH empire. |
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