HIST 104 Final: Test Review for Second Exam
Document Summary
Wwi: central powers (germany, ottoman empire, austria-hungary) vs allied powers (great britain, france, russia [us, eventually]) New weapons cause for high death-count: trench warfare, machine guns, chemical warfare, barbed wire. East (russia vs germany) russia pulls out due to the bolshevik revolution (1917), where. Of sussex pledge (believed they could end the war before the u. s. got involved), and. Zimmerman telegram (1917) (if america goes to war, mexico should attack u. s. as. Germany"s allies [they"d get back land that was taken from them]); Lusitania: 1915, u. s. passenger ship sunk by germany, killed 125 americans. Wilson s re-election: campaigned saying he kept us out of war; america comes into war in. Cpi: committee of public information: propaganda indepent agency to influence u. s. public opinion regarding american participation in world war i. 1917, to august 21, 1919, it used every medium available to create enthusiasm for the war effort and enlist public support against foreign attempts to undercut america"s war aims.
