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WORLD WAR I OVERVIEW

Germany

New Nation in Europe

Bismark

Lusitania

Importance

European Alliances

Arch Duke Francis Ferdinand of Austria

War Starts in 1914

Attitude of the soldiers

Germans invade France through Belgium

Reality of the war sets in

U.S. Neutral till 1917

Changes in America

Cars

Movies

Technology

Propaganda

America lends money to France and England

America sells arms to France and England

War stops immigration to the U.S.

Need for workers draws African American workers to North

Western Front

Van Schleffan Plan

Stalled German offensive

Horrors of trench warfare

Some Americans volunteered to fight for France, Canada and England

Introduction of the big guns to break the stalemate

Industrialization of war

Effects on soldiers, Shell Shock

Battle of the Somme

Problems on the Home front

Russian Revolution

Germans smuggle Lenin into Russia

Fate of the Czar of Russia

Communist Russia withdraws from the war

Reasons U.S. enters war in 1917

Attitudes of American soldiers

“Lafayette we are here” meaning?

March, 1918 last German advance

Americans stop the German Advance

Kaiser forced into exile

War ends 11-11-1919

Government help for the veterans

Effects of war on Europe

Effects of war on soldiers

Treaty of Versailles

Wilson’s 14 Points

Attitude of the British and French

British and French carve up Middle East into colonies

Effects on Germany

How Versailles sewed the seeds for a new war