Today we listened to Mr Bruns' powerpoint and took notes.
Causes of WWI- militarism is where a country has a strong army and navy. iperialism is taking over colonies. and they have disputes over which area they want that leads to war. nationalism is having a great devotion or loyalty to a country. economic competition was competing for money, power, and other things around the world. system of alliances is where countries are like a friend to another or other countries. Russia is out of the war in 1917 and the U.S. gets in.
Assasination of Franz Ferdinand- garvrilo princip was the one who assasinated Franz Ferdinand kind of starting WWI.
Trenches- are a trench dug everywhere zig-zagged and it was in no mans land. they all streamed into one main trench. there were different levels of trenches. distances between trenches varied by where they were. chlorine and mustard gases were used to suprise the enemy.
the zimmerman note was a coded telegram sent by arthur zimmerman the foreign secretary of the german empire. propaganda was trying to get people to join the war or just join something. the homefront was where you would have a fight in your home country. U.S. paid for WWI by taxes and liberty loans. paris peace confernece was in paris in 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 29 countries. Wilson’s 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. wilson's ideas to end WWI. territorial laws land taken from germany. finacially germany lost a lot of land and territories. germany was made to pay 33 billion dollars to the allies. germany had to admit full responsibility for starting the war. wilson thought we were joining the league of nations but we never did taking us off the list. now we started with blog discussions.
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