Test topics- casues, chain of events, alliances, goals, weapons, battles, how the us got involved, homefront, propaganda, bulshavic rev, intersting facts
Treaty of Versailles:
pairs peace conference, interenational meetting and the pourposed of the meeting to establish the terms of peace after the war
had 27 nations and had five major treaties, also where the league of nations became a big thing
treaty of versailles-germany
saint-german austria
neuilly- bulgaria
trianon- hungary
sevres-turkey
league of nations
peace treaty directed towards germany,
named this beacuse it was signed at the versailles palace near paris.
allies said that if germany did not sign the treaty, then the war would resume
most of the central pwers got treaties lis this one
what it did? made germany accept blame for starting the war
germany had to pay billions for the damage done.
germany could only have 100000 men in their army and six battleships for their navy and no air force.
lost territiory in europe the germans did
germany colonies were given to briatian and france
brat= blame, reparations, army, territory, and united nations/ leauge of nations.
eruope befroe and after wwi
finland, astonia, lafia, lithowania cmae out of russia
poland out of germany and russia
ww2 staloond invades countries to get them back
checkolsvokia austria hungry was split
ugislavia in southern europe
slovania croashia negrosakofaaohfsjdflkasjdf dont even know what he is saying.
The Central Powers
Germany
Austria Hungary
Turkey ottoman empire
Bulgaria
Allied Powers
GB
Russia
US
France
Italy
M- militarism (building a strong military)
I- imperialism (bigger countries taking over little)
Bolt action rifle was the most common and could fire 1400 m
Springfield
Winchester
Remington
Flame throwers- Germans first
The Germans tested 2 models
the bigger one was designed for portable use
the other one was a big tank and was not able to be carried
they were used for backing up the other people the warn them off
they weren't really used as weapons but could be
machine guns there were three most common
mickers
madsen
and the masoninggewegr 08
machine guns weren't really accurate and they couldn't be carried easily and they had then on the ground, trench guns
tanks
they were slow and only went like 4 miles an hour
the evolution of them are remarkable
they got stuck cause they couldn't go over the trenches
poison gas- french first
was used to end prolonged trench war
accurate for 4% of deaths
chloride
mustard
tear gas
terror weapon scares people if you didn't have a gas mask on
burned in places on your body that were like moist.
grenade
many were used, mills bomb was most common one used
Germans used over 70000 of them
Trench warfare
were always being dug up
air forces
first used t o scout enemy location
war progressed and panes began to be equipped with bombs and the plane fights first started they through gernades at eachother
maching guns were mounted and synchronized w propeller
manfred von richtohofen german, 80 victories also know as the red baron
naval operations
transport soldiers and supplies and u boats were like submarine and could go underwater and hold around 35 men 12 torpedoes and
Tuesday:
1914-1917 before us is in the war
1917-1918 when we joined
Major Battles:
battle of passchendaele-849 casualties, third battle of ypres, beat back the germans, lots of mud, allies losst 440000, germans lost 400000
of verdun- in 1916, 976000 casualties, germans took advantage of the planning of the battle of somme, capture the town was the goal, kiss as much as they coould was alot earlier, lowered the moreal with the loss of troops, 40 million artillery shells were shot, french lost 542000,germans lost 435000, french won
of the somme- 1,200,201 cas, britich came and bombarded german troops with artillary shells for several days, lost 60000 troops at the beginning of the ballter, and forced germans to retreat 40 miles, allies lost 623000, germans lost 60000, allies won
spring offensive- germans suffered from ports being blocked, lost so many troops they recruited old and young men, major push agains somme to distract the americans, germans gained many miles of ground. 1918
devil dogs- force of marines and infantry engaged german troops, battle of balleaue wood, stopped the german advance ending the spring offensive, consits of tanks, artiller, infantry, the americans fought so hard the germans made up the name for them.
hundered days offensive- last offensive of the war, 1855000 cas, failed spring offensive, left germans weak, marshal ferdinand foch decided to go on the offensive, battered back the germans giving up the amiens, germans lost all battles at this time, allies lost 1000000 germans lost 785000
top five worst of casualties- deaths
How the US got involved in WWI:
Shooting the usa with a beebee gun-
germany sub attacks on passenger merchant shops in 1917, sinking of unarmed frend boat, threatend to sever diplatic relators if not stopped germany accepter terms and conditions, germany broke sussex treaty, sub warfare to defeat gb in 5 months, considered us not neutral any more.
us and mexico already in conflict germany tries to turn mexico on america, mexico declinesm america is at war
Wednesday:
Need to know about for test- causes of wwi, chain of events, alliances, goals, weapons, strategies, battles, how us got involved.
us involvement more:
we were neutral
gb and germany were both stopping us ships
why? German sinking of british ships and killing us citizens. - lusitania, arabic, sussex
germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare
causes that got us closer to war
zimmerman note- germany was banking on gb ending the war. really what pushed us into the war. germany tried to ger mexico to declare war on the us and germany promised mexico that they would ger the mexican cession back if they won, germany wanted to keep the us out of eroupe
beliefs of war hawks- teddy, want war
trade and england increased- trade wiwth germany decreased as years went on, 3 bullion in 1916 with england,
british and american propaganda
prepaerdness program, us started arming and preparing for war
american businesses, munitations business pucshes us into war to make money
Or also known as red October, great October socialist revolution
Was the seizure of state power in the lagers Russian rev
It’s when the communist in Russia started a rev to try and start to over throw the Russian leader
Bolshevik means one of the majority
And basically means that they were going to join as one to over throw and run it
Were a faction in a crucial voice,
Faction ultimately became the communist party of the soviet Russia
They rose to power in Russia during the October rev
Founders were valdimir lenin and alexander bogdanov founded in 1905
Russia got involved in the war because of sebia
Sebia was an ally of Russia
Austria declared wae on serbiand and Russia
Problems- Russia was in the hands of the communistas led by lenin
Whites wanted to ger rid of the reds (com)
Russia had to give land to the central powers in order for them to sign the reaty
When Germany surrendered, Russia reclaimed the land that they lost
Land included Poland , finland, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania,
Russia were not comletley forcused in Germany because of the civil war
Communist coming to power
Friday:
The armisice and 14 points
Woodrow wilsons 14 points was declaring that world war i was being fought for a moral casue and calling for the postwar peace in europe
his plan that germany that would be the treaty that would end the war
was NOT the officail treaty that was originaly signed
it said no more secret agreements, nothing in secret,
free navgation of all seas
end to all economic barriers between countries
countrise to reduce weapon nmbers
all decisions regarding the colonies should be treated equally
Today: 180 million direct
mines, militailrism, iperialism, ferdnan ect...
german sinking of ships with american on them, zimmereman note, british propaganda, trade with british, war preaching, war hawks, american businesses
alliences, central poweres allied powers
centeral- austria hungray, turkey, germany, bulgaria
allie powers, gb, italy, france, russia, japan/us
goals:
germany- land and colonies
italy-land and colonies
gb-colonies from germany
france- land and coloines form germany
us- peace, at first it was nuetral and eventually win the war, wilson 14 points
japan- land from gernany specificly german collonies in asia
ah- wanted to survive, but they didnt they fell apart
weapons- planes dog fighting scoulint, know what and how they were used
stay nuetral stay out of it, trench warfare bonshifan plan
know the us started fighitn battles in 1918
Wednesday: going over semester test its in my microsoft word!
Thursday: League of Nations
1920 Democrat- James Cox
Republican- Warren Harding "Return to Normalcy"
1920s were a pretty good decade for us used to be called the roaring 20's known as the jazz age
woman rights to vote, prohibition of alcohol automobile. mobsters like al capone. light switches used to ahve holes for walls
used to have huge radios
prosperit, organized crime, consumer goods, freedom, new music and dance, prohibition, republicanism, political scandal
the red scare- in germany the nazis and comunist were fighting for power in 1920
valdimir lenin he wanted to turn it over to the people but couldnt so he decided lets get things organized and then eventually turn it over to the people.. he died soon after that so we didnt know if that would have worked or not
red scare red is the color asociated with comunisum ver were very scared that comunisma dn anarchy wer going to come to the us.
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Monday:
study below (its all together)
Test topics- casues, chain of events, alliances, goals, weapons, battles, how the us got involved, homefront, propaganda, bulshavic rev, intersting facts
Treaty of Versailles:
The Central Powers
Allied Powers
M- militarism (building a strong military)
I- imperialism (bigger countries taking over little)
N- nationalism (being very patriotic)
E- economic competition
S- system alliance (back up alliance)
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A- assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY/ STRATEGIES OF WWI:
Tuesday:
1914-1917 before us is in the war
1917-1918 when we joined
Major Battles:
How the US got involved in WWI:
Wednesday:
Need to know about for test- causes of wwi, chain of events, alliances, goals, weapons, strategies, battles, how us got involved.
us involvement more:
battle of the homefront and propoganda:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&view=btop&ver=eeculh...
Thursday:
Bolshevik Revolution
Friday:
The armisice and 14 points
Today: 180 million direct
Wednesday: going over semester test its in my microsoft word!
Thursday: League of Nations
1920 Democrat- James Cox
Republican- Warren Harding "Return to Normalcy"
1920s were a pretty good decade for us used to be called the roaring 20's known as the jazz age
woman rights to vote, prohibition of alcohol automobile. mobsters like al capone. light switches used to ahve holes for walls
used to have huge radios
prosperit, organized crime, consumer goods, freedom, new music and dance, prohibition, republicanism, political scandal
the red scare- in germany the nazis and comunist were fighting for power in 1920
valdimir lenin he wanted to turn it over to the people but couldnt so he decided lets get things organized and then eventually turn it over to the people.. he died soon after that so we didnt know if that would have worked or not
red scare red is the color asociated with comunisum ver were very scared that comunisma dn anarchy wer going to come to the us.
blshevisium is comunism