World War I
- Some names this war: "war to end all wars."
- The United States tried to stay out of the war.
- The president asked everyone in the country to eat less and turn off heat.
- Many workers left there jobs to join the Army and the need for workers increased wages created opportunities, especially for women and African Americans.
- Americans supported the war by giving money.
- During the war years, people loaned the government more than 20 billion dollars for buying war bonds.
- For the draft for World War I they pulled people instead of letting you pick.
- The Central Powers were Austria Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire.
- The Allied Powers were France, Russia, England, United States, Italy, and Serbia.
- The war was happening because of Nationalism and because the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife.
- People built trenches.
- First war to use many new modern weapons (tanks, planes, gas)