https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0 Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2018-01-31 19:38:25 UTC 2018-02-04 21:35:59 UTC hello@padlet.com ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227903699 1914 June 28 
explain- In an event that is widely acknowledged to have sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia
Significance-Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August]]> 2018-02-04 20:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227903699 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227905029 1914 July 28
explain- Britain, France, Ireland and Russia were part of an alliance called the Triple Entente, while Germany aligned itself with Austria-Hungary – known as the Central Powers. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914, it triggered a chain of events that resulted in World War 1.
Significance- The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. ... Germany presented an ultimatum to Russia to demobilise, and when this was refused, declared war on Russia on 1 August.]]> 2018-02-04 20:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227905029 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227905709 1915 May 7
explain-  less than a year after World War I erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.
SIgnificance-The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes.]]> 2018-02-04 20:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227905709 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227907178 1915 September 18
Explain- Unrestricted submarine warfare was first introduced in World War I in early 1915, when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy.
Sinificance- Germany wanted to break the deadlock in the war where the British kept war materials and other goods from reaching Germany by a naval blockade. The German blockade of Britain could only be effective if they went after passenger and other ships.]]> 2018-02-04 20:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227907178 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227907880 1917 January 16 
explain-was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
significance- The Zimmermann Note, or telegram, was sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann in 1917. He had sent it to his ambassador in Mexico and the goal was to get Mexico to become an ally of Germany. ... It proposed to have Mexico enter the war against the US, on the side of Germany.]]> 2018-02-04 20:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227907880 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227908268 1917 February 1
explain- Germany blow up more submarine 
significance- this was the last strike for us to go war]]> 2018-02-04 21:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227908268 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227908912 1917 March 15
explain- Tsar Nicholas 2 abdicates 
significance- The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. It sparked the beginning of a new era in Russia that had effects on countries around the world]]> 2018-02-04 21:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227908912 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227909187 1917 April 6 
explain- resident Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany
significance-  President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. ... The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.]]> 2018-02-04 21:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227909187 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227909562 1917 June 25
explain- During World War I, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops land in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines, but by the time the Americans had lined up to take their first salute on French soil, an enthusiastic crowd had gathered to welcome them. However, the “Doughboys,” as the British referred to the green American troops, were untrained, ill-equipped, and far from ready for the difficulties of fighting along the Western Front.
Significance- The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Major General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing commander of the AEF]]> 2018-02-04 21:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227909562 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227910270 1917 November 7
explain- Bolsheviks under Lenin gain control of Russia 
Significance- The experience and theoretical analysis of the Bolsheviks together with their revolutionary activity in the period from the 1905 revolution to the October Revolution of 1917 has major timeless importance for communists all over the world.]]> 2018-02-04 21:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227910270 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227910668 1917 December 23
explain- Russia signalled her withdrawal from World War One soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard
Significance- Russia signalled her withdrawal from World War One soon after the October Revolution of 1917, and the country turned in on itself with a bloody civil war between the Bolsheviks and the conservative White Guard.]]> 2018-02-04 21:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227910668 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227911260 1918 January 8 
explain- The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson
Significance-President Woodrow Wilson gave a speech to Congress that outlined Fourteen Points for peace and the end to World War I. Wilson wanted lasting peace and for World War I to be the "war to end all wars." The United States entered World War I on the side of the Allies ]]> 2018-02-04 21:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227911260 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227911662 1918 November 11
explain- fighting ends at 11am
Significance- Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War ]]> 2018-02-04 21:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227911662 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227911998 1919 January 18
explain- was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
Significance- was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end]]> 2018-02-04 21:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227911998 ayoung6192 https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227912344 1920 January 19
explain- was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace
Significance- proceeded without the United States, holding its first meeting in Geneva on November 15, 1920. During the 1920s]]> 2018-02-04 21:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ayoung6192/f8ilqmnnx5k0/wish/227912344