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Did we REALLY win the war?

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Lusitania

1959 passengers and crew aboard

1195 passengers and crew killed including

128 Americans killed

May 7th, 1915

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In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.

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The Sedition Act, passed shortly after the U.S. entrance into the war in early April 1917, made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces’ prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies.

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Schenck

V.

US

Scare

Sacco and Vanzetti

Trial

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14

Points

Versailles

Treaty

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Checks

and

Balances

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