HIST 150C3 1st Edition Lecture 10Immigration and the Prelude to WarRural to Urban MigrationPush and Pull Factors-push: wage labor-factors that encouraged Americans to leave-pull: racial violence, segregation, boll weevil (decline in agriculture),-factors that forced them to leaveGreat Migration-followed railroad routes -dramatic change in population, especially, in the North (Detroit, Chicago-1st wave: 1917-1930-2nd wave: post WWIIThe Great War (WW1)The Allies-Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, and JapanWW1First example of modern warfareMustard GasToxin that killed people who ingested itTrench WarfareThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-Armies facing each other for years at a time from trenches-signature of WW1-psychological effect on them even after conflict was over-felt random, talking to someone one minute and then they are blow away the next-required very little skill to fight in the trenchesLusitania-May 1, 1915-German submarine sank (passenger vessel that had weapons on it)-killed 128 Americans-American thought Germans did this to make U.S. come to war-individuals press Wilson to come into conflictZimmerman Telegram (February 24, 1917)-German telegram to Mexico - a pact escalating attack of U.S.wanted Mexico to either April 6, 1917-Wilson will go to Congress to ask if he can declare war Selective Service Act-individuals between the ages of 18 and 45 were required to register for the draftMeuse-Argonne
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