Warm up – 11/13/13 Sentence : the vietnam veterans memorial was dedicated in washington, d.c., on november 13 1982 the memorial was designed by maya ying lin and is a long, polished, black wall that lists the names of soldiers killed or missing in the war Journal : Pretend you are a soldier in World War I. Write a letter to a loved one describing your experience fighting (think: warfare, new weapons, places, events, etc)
Neutrality Ends. British Blockade . Blockade along German coast to prevent goods, weapons and contraband from getting through “contraband” extended to mean food! Results American ships carrying German goods just stopped German’s couldn’t get their food = famine U-boats! . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Warm up – 11/13/13 Sentence: the vietnam veterans memorial was
dedicated in washington, d.c., on november 13 1982 the memorial was designed by maya ying lin and is a long, polished, black wall that lists the names of soldiers killed or missing in the war
Journal: Pretend you are a soldier in World War I. Write a letter to a loved one describing your experience fighting (think: warfare, new weapons, places, events, etc)
Firsts of WWI http://www.history.com/topics/world-
war-i/videos#wwi-firsts
Neutrality Ends
British Blockade Blockade along German coast to prevent
goods, weapons and contraband from getting through› “contraband” extended to mean food!
Results› American ships carrying German goods just
stopped › German’s couldn’t get their food = famine› U-boats!
German U-Boats Counter-blockade!
Any ship found in waters around Britain would be sunk
Submarine warfare
News to the U.S. flashed
Lusitania May 7th, 1915
U-boat sinks British liner Lusitania
128 Americans killed
“This sinking…is not war; it is…organized murder and no language is too strong for it. It is getting to be too much to ask America to keep out when Americans are drowned as part of a European war”