Today, in class, we got on the computers and we talked about some stuff mentioned yesterday about our semester blogs and what not. We need 3 pictures and two sources on our assigned battle blog.Mine is the battle of Chateau-Thierry.
Some people talked about blog discussions from last week. Dru and Dena talked about somes battles during World War I. Eli talked about the battle of Verdan, which took place in 1916. Germany was struggling to attack the city of Verdan, which is in France. 20,000 soldiers died and 400,000 were wounded over the course of ten months, while the front line had very little movement over the long period of time.
Mr. Bruns showed us a Powerpoint on the causes and effects of the war, as well as the assassination of Franz Ferdinand which sparked the Powderkeg battle deal. Woodrow Wilson won the election of 1916, as everyone agreed which his decision of declaring neutrality in the war. However, within a month of his second oath, the US was in war in Europe. Both German and British ships were ceasing American naval craft and stealing goods, but Germany would sink ships and kill American citizens, which pushed us to the Allied Powers.
The Zimmermann Note was a coded telegram sent by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16th, 1917. It was sent to the German ambassador in the USA, Johan von Bernstorff, at the height of the WWI. The note was intercepted and decoded by British cryptographers. It was released to the press on March !st, and created an outrage.
The Zimmermann Note said that Germany will begin unrestricted submarine warfare. They also said they plan to make peace with Mexico, who was the US's adjacent rival at the time, and that they would conquer back New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. Some minor causes are that there were warhawks (jingos), with a major one being Teddy Roosevelt. Our trade with England increased greatly, while our Germany trade decreased.
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