Journal Questions 1). What was the cause of the Trojan War? 2). Why were the Twelve Tables important? 3). What stopped the Mongolians from invading Japan?

Winning The War!

Major Turning Points Battle of the Marne 1914 – Stopped the German advance just outside of Paris The German plan to defeat France quickly, failed

Battle of Tannenberg 1914 – The Russian advance into Germany was turned back

Battle of Verdun Fought in 1916 First time a war became a “battle of attrition” The French refused to surrender Verdun, the Germans used that to kill more French soldiers

Battle of the Somme To relieve pressure on Verdun, the British began an offensive on the Somme River In the first day alone, the British would lose 60,000 men

Battle of Gallipoli British attempt to take the Dardanelles from the Ottoman Empire The British were led by Winston Churchill The defeat sent Churchill into political obscurity until World War II

Who was President of the U.S. during World War I?

1916 Presidential Election Wilson ran on the slogan “He Kept Us out of the War!” He promised the U.S. would remain neutral

United States gets involved U.S. Exports during World War I

England’s Strategy England used a naval blockade to keep goods from leaving or entering Germany Result = The Central Powers were slowly running out of food

German Strategy Germany used U- boats to sink ships heading toward England Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Who was supplying England with goods?

Sinking of the Lusitania May 1915, a German U-boat sunk the Lusitania 128 Americans were killed Germany promised to stop their unrestricted submarine warfare

1917 Russia Civil War broke out in Russia The Communist forces led by Lenin won control of the government Russia signed a peace agreement with Germany = Treaty of Brest-Litovsk What did this mean for England and France?

U.S. Enters the War Zimmerman Note = Was a letter from Germany to Mexico that was intercepted by the British Promised to help Mexico regain lands lost to the U.S. if Mexico would attack

Wilson declared war on Germany in 1917 to “MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY”

Why did the U.S. enter the war? It looked like England and France were about to lose the war We did not want to lose the money we had loaned them

The U.S. would send over 2 million men to Europe to fight in WWI They turned the war in the Allies favor By November, 1918, Germany was starving and looking for peace