The U.S. enters World War I

1. How did the United States raise an army?
The United States raised an army by passing the Selective Service Act. This act called for men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service. 24 million were registered, about 3 million called for the war.

2. How did U.S. soldiers help win the war?
U.S. soldiers helped with the war by convincing Britian to create the convoy system. In which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups. This also made it possible to lay a 230 mile barrier of mines across the North sea from Scotland to Norway. The convoy system was a huge success.

3. What were the estimated economic costs of the war?
The estimated costs of the war was $338 billion.

4. What did the war cost in terms of the number of civilian deaths; military deaths?; injuries?; and refugees?
The war cost the total death count around 22 million,
more than half were civilians. 20 million wounded, 10 million becoming refugees. 48 thousand men in battle were lost, 62 thousand men dying of disease, and more than 200 thousand were left wounded.

5. Define armistice.
A truce where two sides come to the agreement to stop fighting.