No Mans Land: Land that is unoccupied or is under conflict between parties that leave it unoccupied. This term is for the land between two enemy trenches. It could range several hundred to 15 yards . Usually littered with warfare carnage, and remains of artillery. A temporary Cease fire would allow medics to collect dead and wounded from the area every once and a while and then the battle would rage on. No mans land could change at any point because of front line shifting as the consequence of battles or actions. To reach no mans land you had to crawl under barbed wire. It was heavily fired upon. There were land mines, machine guns, mortars, artillery, and rifle men on each side. Fatality rate was extremely high in No Mans Land. It was called NO Mans land because no man wanted to be there.
America in WWI: Lusitania was a ship carrying supplies for Britain and civilians was sunk by a German u-boat. The Zimmerman note was a telegram from Germany to Mexico telling them that if Mexico invaded the US, they would repay them. The British intercepted the message and cracked the code to warn us in time. The U.S. was 2.6 billion dollars invested in the war and if they didn't win they wouldn't get their money back. Russia withdrew from the war because of a revolution of their own. President Woodrow Wilson had to campaign a lot to get the Americans to accept the war and they got into the war mood with a vengeance. The draft was implemented because it was more efficient than relying on volunteers. In many ways we were ill- prepared to enter the war. The army didn't have and difficulty building up numbers. Demands on training and supplies were overwhelming. We were a nation huge in industrial power. Many miles of railroads were in the U.S. Administration of American Food Production Was turned over to Herbert Hoover, he increased food production by a lot. Increased amount of bread meats and other commodities by large amounts. Citizens were asked to make victory gardens and power cost was cut. It took 3 years for the U.S. to join the war. The United States only gave the allied powers 30-50% from what the allies were expecting. Wilson selected General John J. Pershing to head the American Expeditionary Force. Americans first fought in May 1918 at along the Marne River. In September, Pershing ordered an all out attack, with the help of other allied forces the sent the Germans on the run from the Western Front, many Casualties happened. Germany signed the armistice ending the war, on November 11.
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