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six serbian assassins were planning to kill the Archduke ferdinand.
only one succeeded. the serbian's actions caused the beginning of the Great War, known as WWI. -
this ship was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland. 1,198 lives including 128 americans lives were lost.
this ship was a passenger ship. -
woodrew wilson told germany not to sink any ships so the germans made a promise that would not harm non military ships 30 minutes before they sank them
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he was a bandit to the US and a revolutionary to mexico.
he was responsible for the raid on columbus. pancho villa wanted to provoke a war between mexico and the United States. Woodrew Wilson appointed general John J Perishing to hunt him down in mexico. he was never fouund. -
slogan for his re-election campaign that wilson strived on.
later in the year this slogan was broken by the germans re-using unrestricted submarine warfare -
promise made by germany to the united states
-passenger ships not targeted
-merchant ships would not sink -
Wilson broke off diplomatic relations with germany.
germany became very strained when british intelligence intercepted a message to germany from mexico where as germany offerd support to mexico if america would enter the war because of unrestricted submarine warfare -
created by Author Zimmerman.
a secret telegraph code that proposed a German-Mexican alliance.
this code leaked out into the public and quickly infuriating Americans -
Tsar nicholas II was overthrown and lenin and Bolsheviks took power.
the empire collapsed and the people rose up. this revolution was a growing cause of WWI -
wilson asked congress for a declaration of war on germany.
germany's unrestricted submarine warfare ignited Woodrew wilson to wage war against the germans.
the US reacted by switvhing to war economy and women started to work in more jobs.
