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growth in industry and agriculture. At the beginning of the war, the US was experiencing recession, however 44 months of consecutive growth from 1914-1918…

their dignified methods of protest. The Suffragettes gained a mass amount of support from the hunger strikes and gained a lot of sympathy and publicity for the cause. Also, as argued by historian Marwick’s Reward Theory, women received the vote in 1918 as a ‘thank-you’ for their work in WW1. Overall, changing attitudes towards women prior to WW1 was one reason for women receiving the vote but it is also evident that the suffrage movements and WW1 had a role to…

org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AN014 Source(s) Used: The source for this assessment includes a publication dated November 3rd 1918 from the Tulsa Daily World which appeared on the Club News and Personals section. This publication was sponsored by the Oklahoma Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. Answer Key: Question 1 – B Question 2 – A…

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 and the events taking place in the United Stated after the September 11th terrorist attacks are similar because terrorists were making bombs and filling up air planes with gallons of jet fuel smashing into buildings destroying things and killing people. A nation-wide fear of comrades and other people who hold different beliefs suddenly grabbed the American inner most self in the 1919 following a sequence of terrorist bombing. The nation was filled with fear. Innocent…

I am a resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida it is 1918 and the war took its effects on our state. Ever since the war started many things have changed, some for the better and for the worse. When the war first started it was scary, the impact it made on Florida was huge. Such as everyday things becoming more and more different. I am 17 years old and just now experiencing the effects of war. Thousands of Floridians joined the millions of other Americans heeding President Woodrow Wilson’s call to…

flamethrowers, posion gas, tracer bullets, interrupter gear, air traffic control, depth charges, aircraft carriers, pilotless drones, mobile X-ray machines, sanitary napkins. Those are basically all of the new technology in world war 1 which was 1914-1918 but the tactic im using is air warfare which is planes and the planes they used were B.E.2. Biplanes which were used for reconnaissance which is military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features. Since trench…

Under the Espionage Act of 1917, and the Sedition Act of 1918 the U.S government made laws restricting 1st amendment rights of freedom of speech and press. A good example of this is the U.S court case against Eugene V. Debs. Debs was convicted in 1918 under the Espionage Act for delivering an antiwar speech. In the last line of his speech, Debs stated, “I believe in the right of free speech, in war as…

The Fall of Germany After World War 1 Imagine celebrating the end of the war and getting to see your family members come home. You finally think your life is going to go back to normal after rationing off your food and worrying about your family in the war. But no, you fall into extreme poverty while the government is collapsing right in front of you. After the end of WW1, there were many major problems in Germany that caused mass chaos throughout the country. The first problem that Germany…

November 7th , the French and the Bolsheviks took power in St. Petersburg. They negotiate an armistice with the Central Powers early December. France loses its eastern ally and Germany can concentrate its forces on the western front. On January 8, 1918, US President outlines his war goals (14 points). Thomas Woodrow Wilson intends in particular to ensure freedom of navigation on the seas, ensure the birth of new states (Czechoslovakia, Poland ...) and create a League of Nations. The Treaty of…

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