World War 1

4 long term causes that started WW1

1. nationalism

2. imperialism

3. miliatism

4. alliances

nationalism

idea that your country needs to be feared and feel superior by others

imperialism

idea that you wanna control/make empires through colonies 

Militarrism

idea that you are stonger with more military/army

alliances

series of treaties where nations agree to protect

triple alliances

germany, austria hungary, ottoman empire

Unites states in the war

The USA had neutrality but sold resources (guns and uniforms) to both sides like england and france 

Triple entente

france england russia

who was prez during WW1

Woodrow Wilson

Why did US start to think that France and England should win the war

because france owed US more money so they could pay off their debts 

decret treaties

1. russia and serbia

2. germany and autria hungary

3. russia and france

4. england and belgium

what did the other smaller alliances do?

smaller ones like russia and serbia made it nearly impossible for war to stay small (twinkie analogy)

how did the war start?

Serbia and Austria-Hungary fought over a piece of land that Austria Hungary owned. One of the people that fought over land assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria Hungary, which declared war between Serbia and Austria Hungary.

who was assassinated at the beginning of the war?

Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand

propaganda

Early on in the war, the British cut the undersea cable that connected Germany and the U.S. from then on, we were getting all of our information about the war from England.

U boats 

The Germans were using submarine warfare more and more. This style was seen as dishonorable way to fight 

what was the name of the boat that got attacked by Germany?

Lusitania 

the zimmerman note

British intercepted a message from Germany to Mexico saying that is USA entered war Mexico would attack USA. British got this message back to USA

what allience did USA join in 1917

triple entente

how many people did USA draft for war?

almost 3 mill ppl

What was the act called that allowed this many people to be Drafted?

selective service act

During the war what acts did the USA government pass?

The espionage act and the sedition act

espionage act

made it a crime to interfere with US military or recuting, support enemies, and encourage soldiers to be disloyal.

What were the main usage of attack?

1. machine guns

2. tanks

3. mustard gas

eastern front

russia

austria hungary

germany

western front

germany

france

england

did woodrow wilson like war?

no and he was re elected because of this

What is the sussex pledge

they would not attack passenger liners without warning (this was quickly ignored)

what was the Sedition act?

it made it a crime to say anything disloyal profane scurrilous or abusive about the US government, flag, or armed forces

War ends in 1919 with the treaty of Veraillies including who?

british

french

US
germany

Goals of french and british after war

• punishing germany

• lost many people so they were angry

• economics decimated by war

goals for the germans after war

• wanted to be able to come out of peace process without looking like they had been beaten to bad

• they had surrendered but did wanna look like fools or be embarrassed by the peace treaties 

goals for the US after the war

• delegation was led by Woodrow wilson

• 14 points

What were Woodrow Wilsons 14 points

intended to make a peace treaty that ensured there would be no WW again

• no secret treaties 

• militaries should be reduced to lowest point that still provides safety

• freedom of seas

• self determination

• organization of nations that guarantees the political independence of all nations and protects them from attack  

The treaty compromise

• important to Wilson that 14 points get to treaty

  • also added that germans could leave treaty with honor intact

• this was impossible

• forced between accepting treaty with damage to germany being blamed to losing the treaty

He went along with the french and british and allowed germany to be blames for war

14 POINTS GOT INTO TREATY

Woodrow Wilson in the end 

got hated on and the US was not ahppt 

US ended up creating sperate treaties with nations we had fought 

He had a stoke and his wife ran the nation from his bedside 

(ominous metaphor becuase this hurts the US in WW2)