Talking about upcoming stuff again.
1920's and the rest of WW1 to cover.
Semester test....i need to work on that,
video - political, economical, and social changes that took place in the 1920's
last assigned blog of the year is this week, about WW1 battles. the battleblog. i have the battle of hamel. no idea what that is. so i should get to work on that too. worth 40 points. needs who, where, when, strategies/goals, results/casualties, and why whoever won.
so, blog discussions- i have no idea which topic this is -
the brittish entered in 1914. german advances on france, war, etc. a german corporal (hitler) rescued a fallen comrade and got an award for it..brittain and france tried to stop the german advances. an entire town was destroyed by the fighting.
1st battle of the marn-
3 german armies were going to paris while 2 french forces were retreating from it. they were told to surround paris- the french government expected this to happen, so the fled to somehwere....a lot of frenchmen fled too. the german forces got to about 60 miles away and were unable to continue, so germany did not get paris. it is generally believed that if they had gotten paris, france would have fallen. dont know if the outcome of war would have changed, but thats pretty much for sure.
causes of WW1 recap-
militarism- when country has large military power to either defend or attack with
imperialism- when country has colonies
nationalsim- extreme support for one's country or ethnic group
system of alliances- made lots of tension and suspision arise.
another battle----battle of verdan
1916, between france and germany- one of the most demanding battles in history. germany took over the verdan area and france wanted it back- they fought over the city for 10 months. during this time, the frontlines moved very little, due to the use of trench warfare making it difficult to lose or gain land.
Part 2: US involvement in WW1 (previous stuff was world involvement in WW1)
neutrality- pres wilson pressed for neutrality. declared it. "impartial in thought as well as in action". neutrality was successful for 3 years...we wanted to keep trading with both sides of the warparties, and not support one over the other. isolationism concerning war. was reelected on the platform "he kept us out of war".
Why did US get involved?-
we were upset with both sides, because both sides were stopping our trading ships. but we drew closer to the allied powers because germany started actually sinking and killing americans on the ships. lusitania, sussex, arabic. theres a big difference between stopping and sinking. so trade with england rose, trade with germany declined. brittain wanted us to jion the war on their side, germany wanted us as far away as possible. so then germany tried to get mexico to attack us, to keep us out of the war, and england intercepted the message (Zimmerman Note) and gave it to us. we got mad and entered the war. so the german's plan backfired completely. this was the last straw.
the zimmerman note said: that germany intended to begin unrestricted submarine warfare. but they wanted to keep the usa neutral. in case usa doesnt stay neutral after the unrestricted sub stuff, they wanted to make and alliance with mexico- wanted mexico to attack the usa to keep them distracted form the overseas stuff, and in return they could regain new mexico, arizona, texas, etc, and financial support from germany. they also asked mexico to invite japan to join the war against the usa. germany reminded mexico that they thought england would be out of the war soon after the sub warfare stuff.
so this was definately an important key to why usa entered the war.
The War Hawks: people who really pushed for going to war an important one was teddy roosevelt. he actually voluntered to go fight, but wilson wouldnt let him.
Trade with england continued to increase, and w/Germany decreased. we became economically tied to the war. 1916, $3 billion in trade with england, next to zip with germany.
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