World War 1 Review

The Spanish flu caused about a third of total military deaths in WW1

Less then 100000 people died due to ww1

July 28, 1914 - Turkey declares war on Serbia.

During WW1, the U.S tried to rename hamburgers as "liberty sandwiches" to promote patriotism

the British Army attempted to train seagulls to poo on the periscopes of enemy submarines

Germany made its final reparations payment from the WW1 Treaty of Versailles in 2010

In 1917, Germany invited France to join WW1 by attacking the U.S

The German WW1 officer that recommended Hitler for an Iron Cross was Jewish

Anne Frank's father was an officer in the US army during World War I

12 million letters were delivered to the front every week

WW1 was the sixth deadliest conflict in world history

90,000 Asian laborers were used by the British Army to dig trenches on the Western Front in WWI

"He kept us out of war" was Woodrow Wilson' slogan for the 1925 election.

Trench warfare was NOT popular during ww1

Germany used a U-boat to sink the RMS Lusitania

During WWI, France built a ‘Fake Paris’ near its capital city to confuse German pilots

Nearly 13,000 Native Americans fought during World War I