-
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. His death is the event that sparks World War I.
-
Russia mobilizes its vast army to intervene against Austria-Hungary in favor of its ally, Serbia. This move starts a chain reaction that leads to the mobilization of the rest of the European Great Powers, and inevitably to the outbreak of hostilities.
-
Germany invades Belgium, beginning World War I.
-
A German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carries 1,198 people, 128 of them Americans.
-
After the US reaction to the sinking of this British liner in August 1915, the Germans agreed not to sink unarmed ships without warning.
-
Reacting to international outrage at the sinking of the Lusitania and other neutral passenger lines, Kaiser Wilhelm suspends unrestricted submarine warfare. This is an attempt to keep the United States out of the war, but it severely hampers German efforts to prevent American supplies from reaching France and Britain.
-
started a crisis with the US by murdering 18 US citizens in Santa Vsabel, Mexico, he had more than 500 men when he crossed the international border.
-
the 1916 Wilson statement to Berlin informing them to renounce the practice of sinking merchantmen without warning or risk a break in diplomatic relations
-
Wilson rode to the Democratic presidential nomination and election in 1916 on the back of this slogan
-
Message sent by Arthur Zimmermann to german Ambassador to mexico, heinrich Von Eckardt. Germany sent Mexico the note so that Mexico would join them, because the Us had entered the war, but wav intersected and decoded by the British.
You are not authorized to access this page.
