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Chapter 11

Chapter 11. WWI = Part 2. Objectives: To describe the war and the role of the Americans in the war. Soldiers: Selective Service Act – required men to register for the draft. About 3 million men were called up…. J. M. Flagg's Uncle Sam recruited soldiers .

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Chapter 11

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  1. Chapter 11 WWI = Part 2

  2. Objectives: To describe the war and the role of the Americans in the war.

  3. Soldiers: • Selective Service Act – required men to register for the draft. • About 3 million men were called up…

  4. J. M. Flagg's Uncle Sam recruited soldiers

  5. Black units were segregated; mostly given non-combat missions. • The 369th(Black unit) saw more continuous duty on the front than any other unit in the war. • Henry Johnson & Needham Roberts received France’s “Croix de Guerre”.

  6. Women joined the Army Corps of Nurses, but were denied rank, pay and benefits. • Women also served in the navy and marines as nurses, secretaries, etc.

  7. US took private and commercial ships and converted them to warships. • By 1918, US had 95 ships.

  8. Vice Adm. Sims introduced the naval convoy system to transport goods. • (Naval ships guarded merchant ships)

  9. U.S. troops helped the demoralized Allied forces. • “The yanks are coming…” • “The Doughboys”

  10. General John J. Pershing Leader of the American Expeditionary Forces to France. “Lafayette, we are here!”

  11. Weapons of War: (p.384-5) • The refined machine gun • Tank (British) • Airplanes/Balloons/Zeppelins • Strategic bomber planes • Antiaircraft gun • Poison gas (Germany) (1925 Geneva Protocol outlawed this)

  12. Other Weapons of War: • Disease – trench mouth, trench foot, trench fever, dysentery, etc. • Filth, rats, lice • “shell shock” (PTSD)

  13. But by Sept. 1918, the US came in time to help save Paris.

  14. US Heroes: • Alvin York – conscientious objector (opposed to war) who decided to fight on moral grounds. Armed with a revolver and a rifle, he killed 25 Germans and captured 132. (6 Am. helped)

  15. Eddie Rickenbacker – US fighter acewho downed 26 enemy aircraft.

  16. German fighting ace von Richthofen called The Red Baron shot down 80 Allied planes.

  17. The Red Baron and the German Flying Circus.

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