World+War+1

= The Americans Arrive = America arrived April 6 1917. Why? The Lusitania which was a british liner sunk by a german submarine. Which 1,198 people drowned and 128 of them U.S citizens. The Zimmerman Telegram was another reason they entered the war. These are only two of the reasons that America decided to enter the war. Nearly 2 million americans troops marched into the war. Doughboys" the nickname for American Soldiers, who were inexperienced, pumped and eager to fight. When the Americans arrived many people in Germany concluded that the war was lost already. It also demoralized the germany soldiers who were now facing new numbers of american soliders.