WW1 (mar 1, 1917 – sep 1, 1918)

Description:

Triple Entente/Allies: Britain, Russia, France
vs.
Triple Alliance/Central Powers: Germany, Austria Hungray, Italy

US Brought in:
- Lusitania
- German unrestricted submarine warfare
- Zimmerman telegram (breaking point)
Home front:
- Total War: all resources used
- Taylorism- war industry, food production
- Espionage Act/Sedition Act
- Red Scare: Americans fear new Soviet communism ->zenophobia ->Palmer Raids/ mass arrests (6000)
- Immigration: high right before war, increasing nativism ->emergency quota acts, national origins act
- Migration: Great migration

Ended with Treaty of Versailles
-> WW2

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