7.5: WWI: Military and Diplomacy

Question 1

PRE-WAR

Answer 1

• Mixed policies
• Wilson ran on “He Kept Us Out Of War” Campaign
• Preparedness Movement

Question 2

CAUSES OF ENTRY INTO WWI

Answer 2

• July 1914: war breaks out due to Archduke assassination
• Triple Entente v. Triple Alliance
• 1915: Lusitania passenger ship and 128 deaths
• Neutrality
• Germans continued sinking ships
• US threatened cutting diplomatic ties
• Sussex Pledge: agreement by German gov to stop sinking non-military ships
• Above = broken as Germany sunk all ships entering warzone
• Neutrality
• Zimmerman Telegram intercepted
• April 2 1917: Congress declared war against Germany to “protect democracy”
• Russia left to fight Bolshevik Revolution

Question 3

WAR!

Answer 3

• Initially, American Expeditionary Forces [led by Pershing] only plugged GBR and FR’s weaknesses
• Soon, 100,000s of men, and US control of Western Front
• Tipped favour of war
• Nov 11 1918: German surrender