World War I
"The Great War"
Reason's to avoid war
- finances
- kills people
- not our problem
- could lose
- dangerous
- religous
Drafting Soldiers to Fight?
No, people should NOT be drafted.
- soldiers who don't want to be there, will be bad soldiers
- not everyone drafted will be able bodied
- no one should be forced to do anything
Just Wars
- American revolution
- Texas Revolution
- Civil War (Union)
- World War 1
- World War 2
- Gulf War
Unjust Wars
- US Army vs Native Americans
- Spanish American War
- Korean War
- Vietnam War
- Afghanistan War of Terror
Everything We Know About WWI
- Started in 1914 with assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
- Woodrow Wilson was President
- US entered after Germany sunk US passenger boat
- Germans Used Submarine Warfare
- Trench Warfare
- First biological weapons used - mustard and zyklon gas
- First Machine guns
- World war 1 has large "ripple" effects - World War 2 and Cold War
- Germany lost ability to have a standing army, weren't allowed to take land, and took whole blame for war(really wasn't their fault), payed for whole war
- lead to end of the ottoman empire
- Fought in Europe
- Leader of British was Winston Churchill
- Diplomatic clash between France , Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary empire
- Ended in 1918 with Treaty of Versailles
- Entente Forces - France, Russia, Italy, Japan, UK, US
- Central Powers - Autria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire
- Militarism, Nationalism, Alliances, Imperialism