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1. AMERICA IN WWl
2. April 1917, after two and a half years of efforts by
President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States neutral
Americans had no idea that war was imminent in Europe in the summer
of 1914, and tens of thousands of tourists were caught by surprise.
The U.S. government, under Wilson's firm control, called for
neutrality "in thought and deed".Apart from an Anglophile element
supporting the British, American public opinion went along with
neutrality at first. The sentiment for neutrality was strong among
Irish
3. Life for soldiers in World War One was not an easy one.
Apart from facing death, the soldiers also had to endure rat
infestation in the trenches with brown rat most feared as they
disfigured human remains by feeding on their eyes and liver. They
also had lice breeding in the seams of their dirty clothes and
caused Trench Fever which began with sudden severe pain followed by
high fever. There were also frogs and slugs. The soldiers suffered
from a fungal infection of the feet known as Trench foot due to
poor sanitary conditions in the trenches.
4. The U.S. Army recruited and trained 233 female bilingual
telephone operators to work at switchboards near the front in
France and sent 50 skilled female stenographers to France to work
with the Quartermaster Corps. The U.S. Navy enlisted 11,880 women
as Yeomen (F) to serve stateside in shore billets and release
sailors for sea duty. More than 1,476 U.S. Navy nurses served in
military hospitals stateside and overseas. The U.S. Marine Corps
enlisted 305 female Marine Reservists (F) to "free men to fight" by
filling positions such as clerks and telephone operators on the
home front. More than 400 U.S. military nurses died in the line of
duty during World War I. The vast majority of these women died from
a highly contagious form of influenza known as the "Spanish flu
which swept through crowded military camps and hospitals and ports
of embarkation
5. French and American troops stopped a critical German attack
just outside of Paris in July and August of 1918. A counterattack
was ordered and, with the help of the British, the Allies forced
Germany back to where its attack beganthe Hindenburg Line. World
War I was characterized by trench warfare. Each army dug protective
trenches-long, deep rows of ditches dug in the ground-in which they
slept, ate and fought again. The Treaty of Versailles, signed in
1919, was one of five peace treaties signed after the Central
Powers surrendered to the Allies. Germany was forced to acknowledge
guilt for the war, pay the other countries for the damage they
caused, and reduce the size of its armed forces. It was also forced
to return territory it claimed during the war to France, Poland,
Belgium, and Denmark. After unsuccessful protests, Germany
reluctantly signed the treaty.
6. By the end of World War One in November 1918, some 26
countries had joined the Allied Powers and declared war upon the
Central Powers. They were; Serbia, Russia, France, Belgium, Japan,
Montenegro, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South
Africa, Italy, Portugal, Romania, USA, Cuba, Brazil, Panam,
Thailand, Liberia, Greece, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Haiti.
7. Woodrow Wilson was an American president who led his nation
through the hard years of World War 1. His role in the war was that
of being a peace broker by staying neutral to avoid getting America
into war, but after the Germans sunk a US ship with civilians he
decided to submit a declaration of war to the congress.
8. Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th President of the
United States, serving two terms from 1913- 1919. As president of
Princeton University and later as governor of New Jersey, Wilson
was a leading Progressive, arguing for a stronger central
government and fighting for anti-trust legislation and labor
rights. As president of the United States, he passed important
legislation on those and many other issues, narrowly winning
reelection in 1916 after pledging to keep America out of World War
I.