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Icebreaker: 9/10 – 9/11

Icebreaker: 9/10 – 9/11. Answer the following questions in your ICEBREAKER section of your BINDER!!!!! (I will be coming around to check your binder as well) What are 3 events that brought the US into WWI Identify 3 things that the US did to mobilize quickly.

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Icebreaker: 9/10 – 9/11

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  1. Icebreaker: 9/10 – 9/11 Answer the following questions in your ICEBREAKER section of your BINDER!!!!! (I will be coming around to check your binder as well) What are 3 events that brought the US into WWI Identify 3 things that the US did to mobilize quickly. What are 2 examples of how the US tried to control public opinion during WWI?

  2. Icebreaker response • Unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmermann telegram, Russian Revolution • Liberty Bonds, raise taxes, War Industry Board, Food Administration, Rationing, Selective Service Act • Espionage & Sedition Act, Scheneck v. US, Committee on Public Info.

  3. Final Phase of the War • Great German Offensive in the West • The German offensive met Allied forces along the Marne under French commander Ferdinand Foch (commander of all allies) and put down the attack • 250,000 Americans landing in France every month • In Sept. 1918 Allies launched a final offensive in the Argonne Forest and proved more than Germans could withstand • German High Command notified the gov’t they could not win the war and an armistice was arranged on Nov. 11, 1918

  4. By the Numbers • 10 million killed • 20 million wounded • Each European great power lost 1 million to 2 million soldiers • 330,000 US casualties – 115,000 deaths • End of war – 2 million soldiers in France & another million on way • Deadly flu epidemic 1918-1919 – Spanish flu killed 50 million to 100 million people • By 1914 US owed $4 billion to Europeans • 1919 Europe owed US $10 billion

  5. Fall of German Empire • Weimer Republic arose in Germany after the war because the victorious enemy demanded it • German people craved peace & German military class to save its face and future strength was willing to go away silently • No hostile shot had been fired on German soil in WWI – a dissolving civilian home front and cry for democracy led to its collapse

  6. Collapse of the Austrian Empire • The subject nationalities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire were recognized from the Allies and in Oct. 1918 declared their independence • Last Habsburg emperor Charles I abdicated on Nov. 12 and next day Austria was a republic, as was Hungary a week later • Before peace treaties of WWI were signed Czechoslovakia

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