1. Warm-up:
List any reasons you can remember as to why the US finally entered World War I

2. America Mobilizes for War

3. The Germans and The U-Boats
May 7, 1915: the Lusitania, 128 Americans.
September 1, 1915: the Arabic, 2 Americans.
March 1916: the French Sussex, injuring 4 Americans.
May 31, 1916: Germany agrees to the Sussex pledge and promises to abide by the rules of international law but insists that Great Britain abide by the rules also.
January 31, 1917: Germany announces it was starting unlimited submarine warfare.
Mid March 1917: Germany sinks several American ships.

5. The Trenches
By early 1915, both sides occupied “trenches” along a front running for hundreds of miles from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland.
Began a new type of fighting---“trench warfare”.
Began with massive artillery barrages the soldiers went “over the top” charging across “no man’s land” to be cut down by machine gun fire.
Locked in a “stalemate” for most of 1915.

7. New Technology for War
New weapons of warfare made this a war like no other---most destructive to date.
*Poisonous Gas *Machine guns
*Tanks *Airplanes *Submarines

9. Declaring & Mobilizing
Germany breaks pledge and sinks American ships.
Britain intercepts the Zimmerman telegram.
Propaganda fuels anti- German feelings.
Wilson asks Congress to declare war on Germany on April 4, 1917.

11. Congress passes the Selective Service Act in May requiring men ages 21 to 30 to register with the local draft (later changed to ages of 18 to 45).
By the end of the war 24 million men had registered and 2.8 million of them were drafted.
African-American, American Indians, and Mexican Americans experienced discrimination and segregation.

13. Training camps were hastily constructed.
Not enough uniforms and equipment.
Medical examinations and tests.
Convoy system safely transports 2 million soldiers past German U-boats (not one casualty).
U.S. laid 60,000 mines in a 240 mile necklace in North Sea.

15. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) embarks for France and arrive in June 1917.
Headed by General John Pershing, a native Missourian (led expedition on Pancho Villa).
Instrumental in driving back Germans.
Many women went to war as nurses for the Red Cross working in military hospitals.

16. Activity:
Answer learning log objective questions