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Result of growing nationalism movement; 19-year-old shot and killed Ferdinand and his wife, believing this would be the end of his country being connected to Austria-Hungary.
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A German submarine torpedoed the Lusitania after President Woodrow Wilson discarded Germany's policy for neutral nations keeping their ships out of the war zone (thus limited shipping).
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A speech delivered to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson during the First World War outlining a plan for peace, introduced through 14 various points. Its purpose was to prevent "international problems from causing another war."
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During the Russian civil war, the Romanov family, the last of the dynasty and of the general reign of Russian czars, is brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
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The brainchild of Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations was an earlier form of the United Nations.
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
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Japanese kamikaze pilots attack the US Navy stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, sinking scores of crucial aircraft carriers and other military craft, such as the USS Arizona and the USS West Virginia.
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A day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers a speech to the combined houses of Congress, declaiming the attack as "a day which will live in infamy."
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Allied forces storm the beaches of Normandy and begin a "crusade" through Europe to bring down Adolf Hitler.
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At 3:35 PM on April 12, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of cerebral hemorrhaging. He is succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman, leaving behind an indelible legacy.
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