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when he was assassinated it eventually led to the outbreak of the First World War -
President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States, a position that a vast majority of Americans favored -
A German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England -
when the 1st Division fired the first American shell of the war toward German lines, although they participated only on a small scale -
coded telegram sent by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German minister in Mexico -
Wilson then asked Congress for "a war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy", and Congress voted to declare war on Germany -
it prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense -
President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14-point program for world peace -
The Second Battle of the Marne was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War -
The Paris Peace Conference was the international meeting that established the terms of peace after World War I -
the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, in part because President Woodrow Wilson had failed to take senators' objections to the agreement into consideration. -
CPI established to mobilize public opinion behind World War I -
although tacit support was given to the pro-German West Russian Volunteer Army under the guise of combating the Bolsheviks. -
It was the first peacetime conscription in United States history.