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Blog #11 Battle of Cantigny

(Invading Cantigny)

Seventy five miles north of Paris in the Somme Sector on May 28, 1918 the Battle of Cantigny would take place. The Commander of the United States and France was General Robert Lee Bullard with about 3,564 troops strong. The time of

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Friday, December 3

Today we continued with more WWI notes:

Casualties:

117,000 in the United States

16.5 million worldwide

WW1 Part 3 The Peace Process:

  • Be able to define what the Paris Peace Conference was
  • Be able to describe Wilson's 14 Points
  • Be able to describe the Treaty
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Thursday, December 2

Today we took more notes and we're STILL not quite caught up yet.

War Industries Board

  • Headed by Bernard Baruch
  • Regulated industry in the U.S.
  • Encourages mass production
  • Under the War Industries Board, industrial production in the U.S. increased by 20%

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Wednesday, December 1

Today we took more notes:

What countries hoped to get from the war:

  • Russia
  • -wanted control of the Dardenelle and Bosporus Straits in Turkey
  • Austria-Hungary
  • -self preservation
  • Germany
  • -wanted part of France
  • -wanted Luxembourg and Belgium
  • -wanted most of wester
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Tuesday, November 30

Today we talked more about our assigned blogs for this week, the 1920's project, and also the semester test. Mr. Bruns thinks that we may have a test over World War 1 sometime next week. Then we continued taking notes to get caught up with the other
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Battle of Belleau Wood

This battle actually consisted of two smaller battles, one at Chateau- Thierry on th 3rd and 4th of June and one at Belleau Wood on June 6-26. This battle was when the U.S. re-captured the woods on the Mertz-Paris road which was taken earlier in the

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Rwanda Genocide

Rwanda was a mass genocide of 20% of the contries population. It was the because of the Belgian favoritism of the Tutsi minority group because of their more European look. The Tutsi were overthrown by the majority group the Hutu in 1959 so in 1990 an

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Darfur

There is a ongoing guerilla conflict or as some would call a civil war. Began in Feb. 2003. The sudan Liberation Movement/Army and the Justice Equility Movement groups accused the Sudan government of committing genocide against Black African American

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Battle of Saint Mihiel

The Battle of Saint Mihiel was fought between the forty eight thousand french troops and the American Expeditionary Force or AEF. The AEF helped fight the Germans in France with the French and British close to the end of the war. On the other side wa

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assigned blog #11

The Battle of Ambos Nogales or in lit terms, the Battle of both Nogales, or the third battle of nogales was a battle fought on august 27th 1918 between the united states army, who were stationed in Nogales, Arizona and a group of German military advi

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Darfur

The Darfur reigion has a war centered on that started February 2003. The SLM/A (Sudan Liberation Movement/Army) and the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) accused the government of commiting genocide against black Africans. The millitary, police, an

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Assigned Web Log

This week's assigned web log is paid for in part by: The Battle of Chateau-Thierry.

The Battle of Chateau-Thierry

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On July 18th of 1918, the Americans and French commenced an offensive force against the German locations, which was potentially the first

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Battle of Vittorio Veneto-Blog Assignment #11

Battle of Vittorio Veneto

The Battle of Vittorio Veneto was fought at the end of October in 1918 in Vittorio Veneto, Italy. This battle was between Italy and Austria-Hungary and took place in Northeastern Italy. Italy had forces of 57 divisio3310272455?profile=RESIZE_320x320ns and ha

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Battle of Hamel

The Battle of Hamel was fought on July 4, 1918, outside the little French town of Le Hamel.

Le Hamel was held by the Germans at the time of the battle, but opposing forces (composed mainly of Australians and Americans on the ground, and the British in
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