6. The Zimmerman Telegram exposed some German actions that were being take in the war. When it was published in newspapers, the public reacted with anger toward Germany. This helped push the government to join in the war.
7. The Sussex Pledge was an agreement between Germany and the US in 1916, before the US entered WWI. It said that passenger ships wouldn't be purposefully targeted, merchant ships wouldn't be targeted until the presence of weapons was confirmed, and merchant ships would be warned and given a chance to safeguard their passengers and crew before being shot at.
8. Woodrow Wilson.
9. The Allies were forced to gather more troops, using Americans to bolster their declining numbers. Lenin surrendered Poland, Ukraine, and other lands to the Germans, so Germany was able to move hundreds of thousands of troops from the Eastern Front to the Western Front.
10. Many women were able to get jobs for the first time, and jobs that were usually held by men. Thousands of African Americans were able to find work in the North, and thousands of Mexicans immigrated to the US to get jobs as well. It also expanded American manufacturing and pushed us to industrialize even further.
11. President Wilson, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Premier Georges Clemenceau of France, and Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando of Italy.
12. He thought that American troops and ships would be ordered to various parts of the world by nations that weren't the United States.
13. They allowed bombs to be dropped without troops having to go in and do the fighting, risking their lives. They allowed much more work to be done in a smaller amount of time because airplanes could fire many more bullets than troops ever could. They basically revolutionized and streamlined warfare to make it even more efficient.
14. President Wilson used Russia's 1917 revolution as an excuse to enter the war. Many Americans believed that the new Russian government would help the Allies. Wilson used the change in government to claim that the Allies were fighting a war of democracy against autocracy. He told the American people that they had to join the war to uphold democracy and American ideals.
15. France, Great Britain, Italy, and the United States.
16. The two causes of labor shortage in the United States were:
- Our nation's industries needed badly to expand. This had to happen so we could meet the need for supplies and weapons that the war was creating.
- Millions of men were leaving their industrial jobs to go fight in the war. Very few European immigrants came to America during the war to fill their shoes. This left us with a huge deficit of industrial workers.
- After The War
b. Wilson was given a hearty reception in Europe
c. Europe was in ruins
d. Wilson offered a 14 point peace plan
e. One of the points concerned the creation of a League of Nations
- The Peace Conference
b. European leaders showed little enthusiasm for Wilson’s 14 Points
c. Wilson was forced to compromise his plan over and over again
d. The leaders discussed how to deal with both Germany and Russia
e. The treaty of Versailles was signed after months of negotiations
f. This treaty made Germany accept full responsibility for the war and pay billions in reparations
g. The treaty also broke up and rearranged the world map
h. Though the “14 Points” had been rejected, the League of Nations was included in the treaty
- Opposition at Home
b. The senate did not want to ratify the treaty, and the most powerful opponent was Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts
c. Wilson went on a speaking tour to rally support for the treaty, when he had a stroke
d. In the following months, the senate refused to ratify the treaty and signed separate treaties with each of the Central Powers, and never joined the League of Nations
18. About 50 miles or so.
19. They moved East toward Belgium.
20. France.
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