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The events that occured during WWI.
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The British stopped any ships that would be going into the Central Powers to make sure they didn't have anything from the Contraband List.
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German submarines sunk British liner the Lusitania off of the southeren coast of Ireland. 1,198 people were killed out of that 128 were Americans.
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After this attack, the Germans agreed to stop sinking passenger ships. This attack killed two Americans.
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This sinking made Germany break their promise on not sinking passenger ships. 80 passengers including Americans were killed or injured.
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This was the slogan for Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign.
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Wilson hoped that all countries could be a democracy without war.
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Since the Germans weren't taking our warnings into consideration we had to act upon them.
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German U-boats sank all ships in British waters that were onsight.
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A telegraph from the german foreign minister to the german ambasador in Mexico, that was intercepted by British agents. It proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany.
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The Germans sunk four unarmed american merchant ships, with the loss of 36 lives.
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The people of Russia thought that he was the last signifiant obsticle that they had to remove.
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WIlson gives his message on war in the capitol building with his fellow ambassadors, senators, and representatives.
