How many passengers boarded the USS Lusitania in 1915?
2,000
What happened to the USS Lusitania?
Germans took the ship down with a torpedo
How did the generation of young men that were to fight in World War 1 feel about the war in the summer of 1914?
they’re enthusiastic about it
How long did everyone think the war would last?
6 months (until Christmas)
How many men did France lose by the end of the first year of the war?
one million
What did Germany call the thousands of casualties that were killed within the first weeks of war?
massacre of the innocents.
What was the American stance at the beginning of World War 1? Why weren’t they worried about the war?
They were neutral and weren’t thinking they would be attacked as neutral.
How much did Model T cost? What were the effects of this?
295 dollars and driving started up.
Where were Americans exposed to the war?
There was news before the films
how was the war good for America by 1915?
the groups in war were buying all their materials from us, so the economy was thriving
who did the northern employers replace european immigrants with once the war slowed immigration?
African americans (called the great migration)
What happened to the german assault on the western front?
miles of trenches meant a hault or no moving
how long were the trench systems dug pno the western front
300 miles
