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WWI How the War Was

2026, Third trimester, Diana Muñoz

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Trench Warfare Armies fought from ditches on the ground, to protect themselves from artillery and other dangers.
Tanks These were armored vehicles that were used to cross danger zones and break enemy lines.
Artillery This are long range and modern day cannons that could shoot from miles away causing destruction.
Flamethrowers These weapons launches a stream of liquid fire, it was used to terrorize enemy lines and clear out terrain, ditches and bunkers.
Machine Guns These guns could shoot bullets very quickly, and could killed multiple people at a time.
Gas Chemical weapons used in the trench warfare that cused burn and choke enemy soldiers, but was no use when gas masks were created.
Dover Barrage This was a naval barrier of mines and nets to block German submarines from the English Channel.
Hydrophone This underater tool was used by the Allied powers to locate German submarines by listening them underwater.
Room 40 This was the secret British department that had the job to break secret codes from German intelligence.
Convoy System The naval escorts carry out by the British, to protect merchants ships that were traveling in large fleets.
Unrestricted submarine warfare German submarines could sink any ship in war zones without warning the ship, but this made the US to enter in WWI.
Q-Ships Heavily armed ships that were disguised as merchant ships that were used as decoy and to attack German submarines.
Hunger Blockade It was a British navy strategy to cut out supplies to Germany, and with that creating unrest in the population.
Trench Rats In the trench warfare there were millions rats even cat-sized that terrorized soldier by biting them, eating their supplies, causing diseases and eating human rests causins psychological damage.
Body lice The lice caused constant itching that prevented the sleep of soldiers and spread diseases among the troops.
Trench Foot Having the foot in freezing tempertures, water and mud, made the skin of soldiers to rot and cause pain and infection. Many of them losing their foot.
Woodrow Wilson President of the United States, he supported neutrality but then was force to lead the US into war in 1917.
Vladimir Lenin Leader of the Bolsheviks he seize power in Russia and signed a peace treaty with Germany.
lusitania It was a British boat that was sunk by a German submarine killing 128 Americans, making the American population to force the entry of the US into war.
Zimmermann Note This was a secret German telegram that was intercepted, in which Germany proposed a military alliance with Mexico to attack the US, and was what triggered the US into war.
The Russian Revolution This was the Revolution that ended the Russian Empire and made the Bolshevicks rise to power, giving Germany an advantage.
The Monroe Doctrine This was a US policy that made European powers to stay out of the Amercias and the US to stay out of European alliences, but was broke when the US enter the war.
Isolationism This was a policy that kept the US detached from Europe it was like nobody enters the conflict of each one, but with the Lusitania and the Zimmerman note the US broke this policy and enter WWI.
Neutrality This was the position of Belgium and early US, to refuse an aligment with any side and to protect global trade.
Two-front war This was what Germany most fear and is a war with two fronts one with Russia in the East and one with the Allies in the West.
Schlieffen Plan This German plan was to invade France as quickly as possible through Belgium and gettint to Paris within six weeks. To avoid a two front war with Russia.
Plan XVII This French plan was an invasion into the territory of Alsace-Lorraine, since it was a past historical defeat and would be a mayor advantage in defeating Germany.
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