WW1 Test 🔥🥵👑💀😈💣❤️🔥 Flashcards
Safe for Democracy
Congress declares war April 1917
American soldiers
Doughboys
Selective service act
Males age 21-30 required to register for military
3 million drafted
2 million volunteered
Alvin York (5 things)
US WW1 war hero
Pocifist
Used turkey hunting skills
Captured Germans
silenced machine guns
John Pershing
USA General head of the AEF American exploding force
Convoy system
Safety numbers
Teams of destroyers escorted by merchant ships across Atlantic

Russian revolution
Bulshvicks-communists
Red-Lenin
White republicans
-tsar Nicklace murdered
Autocratic
Government ruled by one individual with unlimited power
Antiwar propaganda
I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier
Pro war propaganda
Over there
Four reasons America entered the war
- German U-boats/ unrestricted sub warfare
- Sinking of the Lusitania
- Sussex
- Zimmerman note
German U-boats
Submarines
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Attack without warning
The Lusitania
British ship New York to England
People were warned about getting on it
Torpedoed by German U-boat
128 Americans dead-Wilson still neutral
Sussex
Friendship torpedoed by Germans
Why did the Germans agree to the Sussex pledge
Because they did not want the US to enter the war
What was the Sussex pledge
- Passenger ships will not be targeted
2.Unarmed merchant ships will not be targeted
3.merchant ships will be searched before sinking
4.crews/passengers will be removed before sinking
Election of 1916
Democratic—> Wilson
Republican—> Hughs
Wilson won
Fierce dem since Jackson to get consecutive terms
What was Wilson’s campaign slogan
He kept us out of war
Zimmerman note
Telegram intercepted by the British
From the Germans to Mexico
The Germans were saying that if Mexico entered the war the Germans would help them get their land that they lost to America
The western front
The German army cross the Belgian border in 1914
The Germans lost a battle so they began digging trenches
The British and the French did the same thing
Mainly in Belgium whic is between Germany and France 
The eastern front
The line of fighting on the eastern side of Europe between Russia and Germany and Austria hungry
Fighting began on the eastern front when Russia invaded east Prussia in August 1914
Germany immediately launched a counter offensive and pushed Russia back
This pattern of attack and counterattack continue for the first two years of the war
Italian front
The fighting that took place along the border between Italy and Austria
Between 1915 1917 there were 12 bottles fat along the river just inside the Austrian border
Gallipoli
The Gallipoli peninsula is located in the south of Turkey
the allied commanders decided to attack Germany they attacking their ally Turkey
allied soldiers mainly from Australia and New Zealand were sent to the peninsula
the entire mission was a failure the allies lost more than 50,000 men
The war at sea
Even before the war Germany and Britain we’re involved in naval race
Germany knew that they were on likely to win a neighbor organs Britain so they avoided Naval contact
Brittons Main naval tactic was to keep German ships in German ports into two blocks supplies from reaching Germany
Germany’s mean naval tactics was supposed U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean and destroy ships taking supplies from America and other countries to Britain
Why is it called the war to end all wars?
Because of the great destruction and slaughter it caused
What does the m in Mania/have to do with war
Militarism, countries were building up their militaries which intimated other countries
What do the as in Mania/have to do with war
Alliances- Austria Hungary declared war on Serbia so everyone had to join in
Assassination- the arch duke of austria Hungary Fran ferdanzes and his wife were killed in sarajavo by a member of the black hand
What does the n in Mania/have to do with war
Nationalism- ethinetic groups wanted their independence and countries took pride in their nations
What does the i in Mania/have to do with war
Imperialism-countries wanted more land
