A Global Conflict

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A Global Conflict
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Gallipoli Campaign

• Battle against the Ottomans at the strait of
  Dardanelles
• Supply line to Russia
• Turned into Trench warfare and dragged on
• Allies pulled out with no success and 250,000
  casualties

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Gallipoli Campaign
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Battles in Africa and Asia

• German colonial possession came under attack
• Japanese attacked German outposts in China and
  captured Germanys Pacific island colonies
• British and French recruited subjects from their
  colonies
• These colonies thought they may gain independence
• Mohandas Gandhi

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America Joins the Fight

• 1917, Germans intensified submarine warfare
• Unrestricted warfare by Germany
• February 1917, the Zimmerman note
• April 2 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to
  declare war on Germany

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German U-Boats Zimmerman Note
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Home Front

• Total War
• All resources devoted to the war effort
• Control of the economy
• Factory production
• Unemployment disappeared
• Rationing
• Antiwar protest oppressed
• propaganda

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Propaganda Poster
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Women in the War

• New jobs
• Replaced men in factories, offices, and shops
• Built tanks and munitions
• Plowed fields, paved streets, and ran hospitals
• Supplied troops with food, clothing and weapons