WWI

  • meet our demands “ah” but they were too hard BUT serb tried

  • germ declared war because russia started to mobilize for war, russia said no to germs demands to stop so they said “this is war!”

  • schlieffen plan - go thru belguim so germ don’t fight a two front war

  • BROUGHT BRITAIN into war

  • took one week to draw great powers into war

  • trench warfare - stalemate

  • “no man’s land” out of the trenches and you’d get shot real fast

  • at this point america was frightened of germs militarism

  • propaganda against germs

  • america neutral - isolationism

  • blockade placed investments at risk (we are supplying for allies and germs blockaded us)

  • wilson peacemaker

  • u-boats = caused anger in the us

  • LUSITANIA british passenger ship sunk by germs and americans died

  • sussex - frenxh ship

  • “sussex pledge” we will warn you before shooting you down! but it’s germany

  • the zimmerman note - germ send telegraph to war stricken mexico for a secret offer

  • if mexico declares war on us, then they allegedly get back the southwest

  • never taken seriously

  • revolution in russ

  • russ had a dictator who was overthrown- amerixa doesn’t wanna help dictator russia “get off the throne”

  • us joins war now yeehee

  • germ STILL sinking ships silly

  • wilson is like “ok guys now let’s do war this isn’t safe for our democracy”

  • congress 90% wants war RARE

  • select service act - draft, but also there’s a lot of volunteers

  • women and black people stepping up bc men are going away

  • the convoy system - big protective ships around cargo and passenger ships to protect them from dangerous waters w u-boats

  • cut merchant losses - no ships sink

  • europeans tired of war, eager healthy ameroxans wanna fight so they’re new and fresh and they are CATALYST

  • segregated african american troops doing dirty work

  • harlem hell fighters - distinguished black troop

  • lenin/bolsheviks russia now in charge and tells people to vote for him because he’s gonna make peace with germs

  • russia leaves war - good for getmans (no us yet)

  • goal = capture paris (bc if you capture capital then you kinda win)

  • another turn - amerixa joins now “us marines will not fall back into the trenches!”

  • lost ½ troops but they turned the tide and pushed back germans

  • new weapon = tank (and gas and machine gun)

  • getmany starts losing, thinking about peace WUSSIES

  • central pwrs begin to collapse = domestic revolutions, allied attacks

  • germs begging for peace

  • getmany leader flees - leads to surrender

  • november 11, 1918

  • more ppl died from spanish flu

  • americans worked hard to produce products but economy wasn’t ready to meet wartime demands

  • america for the most part good though

  • LIBERTY BONDS - raised money for war effort (anerixans wanted to support the war) and it worked

  • loaned to allies too

  • industry switched from commercial to goods (war stuff)

  • regulating food and fuel consumption

  • rationing food “gospel of the clean plate”

  • gasless days leads to daylight savings (save energy for the war)

  • news is under federal control , censorship, banned publications, movies and only for security

  • “loose lips sink ships”

  • fear of foreigners (spies), restricted immigration

  • hate the hun - high schools stopped teaching german and a lot of german hatred

  • espionage act - illegal to “interfere” with amended

  • sedition act - no speech that encourages rebellion

  • a lot convicted but act violated first amendment

  • socialists (in america) generally anti war

  • great migration - a lot of afrixN amerixans went north for factories

  • wilson wanted a peace treaty bc he didn’t want another war, and he wants economy to be metro booming

  • 14 pts- program for peace

  • self determination - we will help losing countries be democratic

  • isolationism means don’t interfere with getmany don’t punish them

  • spoils of war = what you get if you win

  • woodrow wilson says no spoils

  • league of nations is how they now settle disputes but a. had no power b. us never joined c. no military force “attack on one country is attack on all” DIDNT PASS

  • affected our isolationism

  • divide getmanys colonies, had to pay

  • redraw map, nine new nations

  • italy didn’t get land haha

  • frabce and britain wanted getman to suffer

  • getmans refused to sign treaty bc they couldn’t pay

  • only signed when france threatened to invade

  • versailles treaty

  • separate treaties from the us bc we are different

  • countries all in debt to us lol

  • had trouble reintegrating soldiers

  • women fired or left jobs when men come back, no respect lol

  • sad after war