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04/18/2012

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02/09/2012

12/15/2011 Final



11/18/11 __**Had no Chance**__ Fear, Kill me Punish me With cold hands Twisting my heart And tearing my soul. Hiding underneath It's death is near helpless death Appearing like Frozen to the spot

10/31/11

11/9/11

Oct 9. Protests

**__PART ONE__** **Life during the war** **Germany** **__PART TWO__** **Wilson's presidency during the war** **__PART 3__** **EUROPE DURING THE WAR** **__PART 4__** **Germany going bad** **__PART 5__** **America in the War** **How Germans Hated the War** **__PART 6__** **Life without the war**
 * 1917, in Britain gave a law for women to vote
 * the year JFK was born
 * 1917 the year the allies would not repeat
 * Europe was now running out of men
 * Both sides now drafting young boys
 * intense cold
 * hunger people going through the streets
 * skinny and dark shadows under everyones eyes
 * Strikes are breaking out in Berlin
 * Anyone who strikes are being sent to the front
 * Men are considered slaves because they had to join the war
 * Kaiser played solder at the front and king in his castle
 * his power was being stripped from his own people
 * He was considered a failure
 * the Kaiser must act like a true ruler; a father to his own people
 * Paul and Eric the 2 general of Germany now
 * Paul was the brains, Eric was the guy who did
 * Europe's war was a boom for the US. for raw goods and the weapons they can make
 * The president wanted nothing to do with the fighting
 * Wilson looked at the war as Europe's great war
 * Wilson had fallen in love, no longer unhappy but was in love
 * 10 months later they were married
 * 1917 Germany called Wilson's bluff
 * Zimmerman telegram as it was called
 * April 2, 1917 Wilson went to congress and asked for a declaration of war
 * going to war for there principle democracy
 * 2 million men signed up. another million were drafted
 * thought the people were going war crazy
 * America was going to war for Democracy
 * 1917 the year of race wars
 * Largest trial of crime was in Houston.
 * 13 men were hung with no trial against them
 * US gave 2nd thoughts with arming black men
 * Germany's population was paying a huge toll with all the lives that are being lost
 * Ammunition was being piled around the the gun stations for one last fight
 * hopes of the troops thought victory was finally near
 * Massive strikes in Berlin
 * March 21, 1918 German ran shell of artillery against the British army
 * The new guns that are killing all the mean.
 * Gases, murderer of many men
 * Kaiser declared that they won
 * German launched 4 attacks for 4 months
 * Germans were getting dominated
 * Mass assault, 7 waves of men over and over
 * They were just getting killed over and over by the new machine guns
 * German general was gamboling for the win
 * Hindenburg line was the Germans hiding place
 * British armies did not care and attacked and broke through
 * Germans were now retreated toward the sea
 * Germany was going to lose the war
 * Kaiser knew that the war was over
 * April 28th, 1918 was the great adventure
 * Harry S Truman was one of 2 million in France long wanted to be a solder but bad eye site
 * Memorized the eye chart so he could join
 * Truman thought himself a modern crusader
 * Americans were still training as British and French were still fighting
 * May 1918 the Americans finally came in and filled the whole
 * Last weeks of war the Americans started coming over the hills
 * in 3 hours American fired more artillery then the civil war
 * the inexperience of the Americans came to there disadvantage
 * Germany surrender because they were fighting against an endless amount of soldiers they thought
 * America barley lost anyone compared to the European nations
 * German's hated the war
 * Men were like fighting for Germany if they were treated like men not animals
 * German's gave up and were having there ship blown up by enemies
 * Ludindarf and Kaiser decided to flee the country and ran away like cowards
 * November 11, 1918
 * 11 o'clock on the 11 day on the 11 month the gun feel silent
 * life will be tame without war
 * people wont know what to do without it
 * the quiet disturbed the soldiers who were still there
 * that Germany lost the war and the suffering would still continue
 * life was so bad after the war in Germany
 * people wanted to kill themselves because there country was devastate by the war
 * Peace, the men would come home happy that they are alive
 * but some there would be tears of pain