WW1 Museum

Causes of War

One cause of world war 1 was militarism.Militarism is a nation rapidly building up their military.

Another cause for war was imperialism. Imperialism sparked competition between the countries.

The biggest cause of ww1 is alliances because a little conflict between Austria and Serbia lit a powder keg and the rest of the continent got into the conflict.

Another cause for the war was nationalism. Nationalism is pride for your country and wanting your country to be the best. Some people got way to serious about that.

Trench Warfare

Problems in the trenches

Problems in the trenches consisted of: mud, rats, it smelled, body rot, cold, maggots, lice, and disease. One of the toughest challenges was staying dry.

This is no man’s land, neither side controlled it. In order to get across this you had to go through barb wire, machine gun fire, and craters.

One side would start artillery about half to an hour before their side would go over the top. Attacks would usually start at dusk or dawn.

Reasons why the US entered

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Germany promised in the Sussex pledge not to sink merchant ships without warning them first, an d rescuing passengers.

The Zimmerman note is a telegram written by a German official. In the telegram the Germans asked Mexico to attack the U.S. and in return they would get land that they lost to the U.S.

Treaty of Versailles

Germany’s punishment was they had to take full responsibility for the war, they lost some of their colonies, greatly reduced Germany's armed forces, and were forced to pay $33 billion (33,000,000,000) to the allies. They were only able to pay $4.5 billion.

New nations were created after the war was over.From Russia: Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, PolandFrom Austria-Hungary: Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia.From Ottoman: Divided up to be controlled by allies.

Created the league of nations, and organization of nations established at end of world war 1 to maintain stability.