blog needs to have who, when, where, strategies/goals, results/casualties, why they won, 3 pictures one map of battle area, 2 sources
battle of yeprey- 1914 british and germans entered yeprey, neither controlled area, hitler won highest honor soldier can get, british regained control, british started using chlorine gas, bombarded city with artilary and demolished it
causes of ww1- militarism- country has big military power
imperialism- countries would go to other countries to expand
nationalism- people supported nations
economic competition- countries fought economically for varioous things
alliances- allies and central powers were the 2 dividing powers
battle of verdun- on my blog
not tested over major battles
u.s. involvement in world war 1
1914 wilson declared neutrality, neutrality successful for 3 years
1916 electrion against charles hughes, platform was "he kept us out of war", wilson won
1 month after he bacame president we went to war
mainly because of germans sinking ships and killing us citizens
g.b. and germany were both stopping us ships and ceasing goods so we didnt like either side, but germany was sinking and killing people so we like g.b. better
Zimmerman note- foreign secretary of german empire arthur zimmerman sent a note to the german ambassador of the usa johann von bernstorff on january 16, 1917, it was intercepted and decoded by the british, contents of zimmerman not given to american press on march 1, caused outrage that contributed to us declaration of war against germany april 6, 1917
contained: unrestricted submarine warfare, said they wanted us to stay neutral, if us neutrality did not succeed they would form an alliance with mexico and support them and they would get back their land, they are thinking that if they do unrestricted warefare to englands ships they will surrender quickly, us may or may not be in the war but they were hoping they wouldnt and would end the war, banking on us isolation
minor reasons- war hawks like teddy roosevelt said that we should go to war and are always telling the congress and president that we should go to war
trade with england increased and germany decreased
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