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Germany followed a strategy known as the Schlieffen Plan. This called for a holding action against Russia, combined with a quick drive through Belgium to Paris
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Britian's Luistania sank off the southern coast of Ireland. 1,198 persons lost, 128 of them were Americans.
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The Democrats renominated Woodrow Wilson
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President Wilson delivered his war resolution on this day
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Required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service
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A famous speech Woodrow Wilson presented before Congress.
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The Fuel Administration introduced it as another conservation measure to save on resources
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Under these acts, a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort.
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The flu epidemic begins in the fall of 1918. Killed nearly 500,000
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Armed only with a rifle and a revolver, York killed 25 Germans and with six other doughboys, captured 132 prisoners.
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A truce that ended the war
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The bBig Four and the leaders of the defeated nations gathered in the hall of mirrors of the Palace of Versailles to sign the peace treaty.
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He layed partially paralyzed for more than two months.
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Gives women the right to vote.
