World War I
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- John J. Pershing
- Led first U.S. troops into France
- The Spark
- the assasination of archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip
- Allied powers
- Great Britain Italy Russia France and later the U.S.
- article 10
- Any LON member that is attacked will have the full support of the other permanent members
- Britain
- David Lloyd George
- Self determination
- the right for people to govern themselves
- WWI results
- 8.5 mil dead 21 mil wounded northern France destroyed
- Italy
- Vittorio Orlando
- Sussex pledge
- Agreement with Germany to restrict U-boat Warfare
- Committee on public info
- headed by George Creel but was Pres. Wilson's idea
- Was widely used by both sides
- Poison gas
- Central Powers
- Germany Austria-hungry Turkey and Bulgaria
- National defense act
- increased the # of Army Navy and National guard
- what weapon did mainly Germans use
- Machine guns
- Herbert Hoover
- head of the food administration encouraged wheatless heatless and meatless days
- What was the allies weapon
- Tanks
- France
- Georges Clemenceau
- Challenges to Neutrality
- Britain stopped all ships heading for neutral countries to inspect them Germans established the war zone sinking of Lusitania
- trench warfare
- widely used in WWI ditches dug into the ground (disease flood rats delayed burying and sickness.)
- U.S.
- Woodrow Wilson
- The great migration
- 200,000 to 500,000 africans moved north from 1915 to 1930