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A Global Conflict - Coggle Diagram

- - - - How did the Zimmerman Note draw America into the war?
        
        it was the last straw for the americans, most americans were on the allies side and felt a bond with england. America cared more about economic ties with them then the central powers.
        
        Arthur Zimmermann, stating that Germany would help Mexico “reconquer” the land it had lost to the United States if Mexico would ally itself with Germany.
        
        On April 2, 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. The United States entered the war on the side of the Allies.
      - Why did the Allies want to establish a supply line to Russia?
        
        he Allies believed that they could take Constantinople, defeat the Turks, and establish a supply line to Russia.
      - the Allies believed that they could take Constantinople, defeat the Turks, and establish a supply line to Russia.
        
        In December, the Allies gave up the campaign and began to evacuate. They had suffered about 250,000 casualties.
        
        alliance
    - - natiionalism
- - - - A provisional government was created and pledged to continue fighting the war.
- - - - Another 21 million were wounded. In addition, the war led to the death of countless civilians by way of starvation, disease, and slaughter
        
        One of the most lethal diseases was the flu, which struck in 1918 and killed some 20 million people.
  - - - It ushered in the notion of war on a grand & global scale. ~ It also left behind a landscape of death and destruction such as was never before seen.
- - - - This war changes lives forever and affected everyone
        
        Affected soldiers in the trenches
        
        Affected civilians as well
        
        Conflict
        
        World War I became a total war
        
        War
        
        Wartime Government
        
        Government turned to rationing and also used propaganda
        
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        Why did the wartime governments take control of their countries' economies ?
        Answer: Governments told factories what
        to produce and how much.
        
        https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/visualizing/graphing/wartime.html
        
        Total war meant that governments turned to help from women as never before