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-Machine guns fired 600 rounds per minute.
-Airplanes were equipped with machine guns for dog fights and bombs for ground troops.
-Mustard gas was a poison that blinded,burned, and suffocated its victims.
-To counter mustard gas, gas masks became standard issue.
-Tanks were armored vehicles used to go through both barbed wire and troops.
-Observation balloons were used extensively by both sides in the war in Europe.
-Rueben Gildart

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Selective Service Act and Mass production. Brandon Stewart

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Selective Service Act and Mass production. Brandon Stewart

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- Passed in May 1917
- Required men to register with the Government in order to be randomly selected for military service.
- by 1918, 24 million men had registered under this act.
- of 24 million, almost 3 million were called up.
- About 2 million reached Europe before the truce was signed, and 3 fourths of them saw actual combat.
- most inductees did not attend high-school, and about one in five was foreign-born.

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Selective Service Act and Mass Production

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Selective Service Act and Mass Production

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-America had strong financial ties with the Allies
-Labor Shortage from exporting to Europe
-Germany's sinking of Lusitania
-Lusitania was a civilian ship (sank 150 Americans)
-intercepted telegram from Germany
-Zimmerman note: asked for Mexico's allegiance if America joined the war

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AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES                                     --John J. Pershing, the leader of the AEF, saw that allies were using american troops only as reinforcements, after he realized this he wanted the AEF to be an independent army under American command.                             --Alvin York was one of America's greatest war heroes during the fighting of Meuse-Argonne.                               --A Conscientious Objector is a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds.     

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AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES                                     --John J. Pershing, the leader of the AEF, saw that allies were using american troops only as reinforcements, after he realized this he wanted the AEF to be an independent army under American command.                             --Alvin York was one of America's greatest war heroes during the fighting of Meuse-Argonne.                               --A Conscientious Objector is a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds.     

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1917-Russia pulls out of the war.

July 1917- U.S arrives just in time to stop the German Advance.

September 1917- U.S soldiers begin to mount offensives vs Germany and turns the tide.

November 3rd, 1917- Hungary and Austria surrenders to the Allies, several days later Germany surrenders.

Final Toll-48,000 men died in battle, another 62,000 dying from disease.More than 200,000 thousand Americans were wounded.

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-Zimmermann Telegram
-Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
-The Sinking of The Lusitania
-America had strong financial ties with the allies
-Economic Interests-
- German cruel act in Belgium

~Travis Darden

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- New weapons and tactics led to horrific injuries and hazards.
- Fighting men were surrounded by filth, lice, rats, and polluted water.
- inhaled poisonous gas and smelled decaying bodies.
- Suffered from lack of sleep.
- They often got battle fatigue and "shell shock".
- physical problems such as trench foot from standing in cold wet trenches for long periods of time.