U.S. ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR I: EXTERNAL FACTORS

LECTURE 7: U.S. ENTRY INTO WORLD WAR I -- EXTERNAL FACTORS

Lecture Outline

1. The war to 1917.
2. The British blockade.
3. German submarine warfare.
4. British and German propaganda.

Important Information, Terms, and Names form this Lecture

Sarajevo
"belligerent" nations
Central Powers: mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey
Allies: mainly Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan
trench warfare
Battle of the Somme (1916)
"freedom of the seas"
Declaration of London (1909)
"contraband"
"right of visit and search"
"continuous voyage" doctrine
"black list"
U-boats
Lusitania sinking (1915)
Arabic sinking (1915)
Sussex sinking and Sussex Pledge (1916)
Lord James Bryce
George Sylvester Viereck
Zimmermann Telegram (1917)

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