Hitler won the highest honor you could in the army for saving the life of a wounded comrad. The germans started using chlorine gas and the city was really demolished. the causes of WWI were once againg MINES. Wilson said we need to be impatial in action as well as thought and such the Inter national laws on neutrality. his motto for the election was he kept us out of the war. a month after he won the office back we were in the war. the biggest part of theis section is why the us got involved in the war. The number one reason ws we were upset with both sides in war and we eventually went closer to the allies was the fact that Germany began sinking ships and killing americans Lusitania Arabi and Sussex were all british or french ships that all contained american passengers. Started trading more with Britain than Germany. The second biggest reason was the Zimmermann note was the fact that the foreign secretary fo the german EmpireThe note was intercepted and decoded by the british cryptographers the contents of the letter were given to the american press on March ! Caused public outrage that contributed to the war. They pledge in the sussex pledge to not sink anymore ships then they plan to get Mexico to reconquer the mexican session. Mexico already didn't like us because of the whole dealio with the Pancho villa they think that the unrestricted submarine warfare will cause england to surrender. the war hawks were people who believed we need to go to the war
We went back over the causes of the war which I will re post. We will also get into propaganda The unrestricted submarine warfare was probably the bigest cause of us going to war along with the increasing trade with England as opposed to the decreasing trade with germany. The propaganda was a lot of influencing the people to get to war and it was things like uncle sam and the british propaganda was portraying the germans as creul rapist that would come for america next if they won. The munitions buisness also had a hand in pushing us into the war because war would increase there revenue. The lusitania was also used as propaganda because germany really pissed us off by not following international law and then they made the sussex pledge and then went behind our backs, continued unrestricted submarine warfare and tried to convince Mexico to attck us so we wouldn't join the war effort. The pledge stated that they wouldn't sink passenger ships and only search merchant ships. Propagnada wanted everygeneration was helping the war effort adn such. John pershing was a famous world war one general. Soldiers were called dough boy althoug nobody is sure why. home front refers to what the troops home country did to help the war effort War industries board made sure that buisness were helping make war items as effenciently as they could and as much as they could. the food adninistration headed by herbert hoover and they urged people to conserve food to send more food to feed the troops. Meatless days and wheatless days and plant victory gardens to get food out of those because the food you would have bought were helping send food to troops. lots of propaganda on the food stuff. convinced a people to like buy war bond and support the war effort in your won way. they eradicated german stuff liberty pox liberty steak liberty cabbage instead of german measles hamburgers, and saurkraut. Apparently hes going to sing today so that ought to be interestingJmes montgomery Flag. A lot of the propaganda was awful playing on peoples sympathy and fears of the people. The united states payed for the war through taxes and war bonds, letting the government borrow your money with interest. The National war labor board settles disputes between workers and emloyers discouraged strikes work or fight headed by Taft. The Treaty of Versailles was the ending treaty of WWI and Wilson's 14 points The us never signed the the treaty. Germany signing the peace treaty Imposed guilt and stiff financial penalties on Germany. Took place in 1919 with us britain france and italy. The paris peace conference was held in versaille pallace. Was held in the hall of mirrors. Wilsons 14 points
1. An end to secret treaties
2. Freedom of the seas
3. Free trade for all countries
4. Disarmament
5. End to colonial claims
6. Self-determination for all countries- Russia
7. Restoration of Belgium
8. Restoration of France
9. Readjustment of Italy’s boundaries
10. Austria- Hungary would be given opportunity for autonomous development
11. Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated and restored
12. Turkey should be sovereign (independent)
13. Poland would be given their independence
14. The “League of Nations” would be developed
The other countries were unhappy with these fourteen points becasue they didn't feel it was hard enough on germany. Became the basis for the german surrender but boy were they wrong because most of them were not used. 1 through five and then 7 8 and 14 were put into effect. France wanted to be really tough on germany and we didn't Britain was in the middle and Italy...... well they weren't really up there with everyone elso so. The changes in WWI were a big nuisance to Hitler and Stalin. The Treaty of versaille was broken up ito territory The land that germany loses during this war are the main things hitler got back and subsequently lost in WWII There were also military consequence they couldn't have any more than 100,000 men no tanks no subs no air force and only a few naval ships. Rhineland didn't happen but they weren t allowed to put troops into the rhineland. They lost financial with land and had to pay 33 million dollars.
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