a balance of power is where when one country builds up their army the other country will try and build their army up so no one can take advantage of them, imperialism is a domination of a society against other people, imperialism would often cause war because they would fight about who gets the colony that they both want, a problem with nationalism would be that people would go to war because they were afraid they would lose their rights and stuff, another problem was ethnic groups, the most powerful countries are great britian, germany, france, and united states, had trench warfare with barbwire barriers and used gas as a weapon, had one man tanks that do less than 10 miles an hour, mustard gas was a terrible method to use because it burned your skin and made moist areas of your body bleed, zeppelins were big slow planes used for bombing that started on fire pretty easily, meuse-aregome offensive is my blog assignment this week, in 1918 california had as many electoral votes as iowa, the zimmerman note declared that germany wasn't going to give us warning before they sunk any more ships, assassination of arch duck ferdenand, imperialism militarism the "mines" and zimmerman note with sinking of the ships, the western front was paris, the homefront was the war efforts people did in the united states like young men joining boy scouts, and planting victory gardens, the overall goal of wilson's fourteen points was that all countries needed to change so that we dont have another war, italy was the fourth leading power but it wasnt near as strong as the first three so they felt like that they were being neglected, charged Germany 33 million dollars which outraged them that helped hitler become a power, league of nations was a world wide peace keeping group, country a has a problem so they take them to the league of nations and country b dont like it so they start economic sanctions where they wont trade with them, the 14th point was that the league of nations be developed, blog discussions the rest of the period
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