https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s en-us 2023-10-17 13:59:10 UTC 2023-10-31 13:06:35 UTC hello@padlet.com pintoq https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750862999 In 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from the foreign minister of Germany, Arthur Zimmerman, to the German minister of Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, in which he offers the United States territory to Mexico in exchange for joining the German cause. This message helped draw the United States into WWI.]]> 2023-10-17 14:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750862999 einzigr https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750863268 The Russian revolution was a segment of both political and social change in the Russian Empire, where Russia abolished it's monarch and adopted a socialist form of Government. This revolution is also seen as the precursor to European revolutions that occurred in 1918-1919 such as the German Revolution.]]> 2023-10-17 14:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750863268 pintoq https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750863412 The Sussex Pledge was a promise made by Germany to the United states that allowed armed merchant ships but not passenger ships to be torpedoed without warning.]]> 2023-10-17 14:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750863412 einzigr https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750863622 On April 6th, in 1917, Congress approved a declaration of war against Germany by a vote of 82-6.]]> 2023-10-17 14:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750863622 pintoq https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750864023 The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War. The reason this caused such pushback from the United States was because Americans were on that boat. 123 American citizens were killed, so it became and US issue as well.]]> 2023-10-17 14:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750864023 einzigr https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750864104 After Germany was unable to take control of the sea from Britain, Germany resummed Unrestricted warfare. This, as well as the Zimmerman act, were the causes of the United States joining the war in early April.]]> 2023-10-17 14:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750864104 pintoq https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750864621 The national defense act of 1916 was a bill that not only increase funding of the US Army but allowed the federal government to use manufacturers to mass produce war materiel for the government for conflict.]]> 2023-10-17 14:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/pintoq/f6occu3tbrkzz28s/wish/2750864621