Download Chapter 24, Lesson 3

Chapter 24, Lesson 3
US Joins the
Allies
Supplying the Allies
• Allies were low on supplies
• German U-boats sunk 1 of 4 ships
• Allies used convoys: groups of ships
sailing w/ to protect other ships
Russia Quits
• Bolshevik Revolution overthrew new gov’t
that had overthrown Czar Nicholas II
• Led by Vladimir Lenin, who signed Treaty of
Brest-Litovsk w/ Germany
• Peace in the East meant Germans could focus
on Western Front
US Joins the Battle
• May 1917, Gen John Pershing led American
Expeditionary Force (AEF)
• French & British wanted US to join them
• Pershing refused, wanted to keep separate
• American soldiers, “Doughboys” first saw
action June 1918 driving back German forces
at Chateau-Thierry
Argonne Forest
• Allies begin to attack
• 500,000 US soldiers defeat Germans at SaintMihiel
• 1 million US troops join Allies at Argonne
Forest for 7 weeks, pushed through their lines
into Germany
• Eddie Rickenbacker & Alvin York both receive
Medal of Honor
• http://youtu.be/LmRRhxo0RHc
End of War
• Germany struggling on Western Front
• Ottoman Empire about to collapse in late 1918
• Austria-Hungary broke apart & Poland,
Hungary, & Czechoslovakia declared
independence
• Nov 1918 Austria-Hungary & Ottoman Empire
surrendered to Allies
German Defeat
• German realizes defeat & asks Pres Wilson for
armistice on Oct 4, 1918
• Wilson agreed but w/ certain conditions
– Germany had to leave Belgium & France
– Only nonmilitary leaders could negotiate
• Revolution in Germany forced the Kaiser or
emperor to step down
Armistice
• Armistice on the 11th hour of 11th day of 11th
month (Nov 11, 1918)
• Germany had to withdraw forces west of
Rhine River
• Remove its fleet from Baltic Sea
• Surrender large amounts of equipment
• The Great War was over