Social+Studies

media type="file" key="Outshined wikispaces.mp3" align="center" width="240" height="20" Dear Granddad, We are so grateful for your dedication to your country and the people in it. We will always remember the sacrifices made to our country and freedom. It may not have been the war that you fought in but I will refresh your memory of the Great War (WW1) with a recap of its major events and Georgia’s contributions. Early in the morning of August 1941, war breaks in Europe and the Great War has begun. President Woodrow Wilson declares the U.S.A neutral as we would have liked to stay. We planned to continue trade with both central and allied powers. This was fine but it didn’t last long. In 1915 a German u-boat sank the British cruise ship, the Lusitania. About 128 American citizens were on board and went down with the ship for no reason. President Wilson asked the Germans to stop submarine warfare and they did. America continued to stay neutral in the war. In 1917 we received Intel that not only had Germans restarted their sub attacks, but that the Brits also intercepted the Zimmerman telegram. It was a telegram that when decoded, ordered the Mexicans to attack the U.S.A. This time Germany had gone too far. Not soon afterwards President Wilson asked U.S congress to declare war on the central powers. Georgia played a major role in helping America through its biggest war yet. I know that you would appreciate that seeing as you live in Georgia. At the very moment war was declared, between 85,000 and 100,000 Georgia boys enlisted in the armed services. Most of these young soldiers were trained at one of Georgia’s military camps. All of the military installations in Georgia played a huge role in the state’s economy.