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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were on vacation in Sarajevo, Bosnia. After a failed attempt to blow up their car with a bomb, and random civilian shot them. This is one of the main things that caused WWI, which eventually the US was a part of. If this hadn't happened, the US may not have had to be a part of the war at all, and they might not have even been a war at all. -
The entire idea of war was daunting to the US. So, we decided to stay neutral by stating it publicly. -
A German U-Boat sunk a British passenger ship, which contained 128 Americans. The US was furious, and sent four diplomatic protests to Germany, trying to end all the nonsense of harming neutral people. -
Americans liked President Wilsons efforts to keep them out of war, and re-elected him for another term. They hoped this campaign would be able to last, and war wouldn't be in the conversations in all the towns of America. -
A telegram sent from Germany to Mexico was intercepted by the British. The message on it was a plan for an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the US. Had this not been caught, the US could have been in extreme danger very early on. -
War has been declared on Germany from the United States. This meant that Americans were officially at war, and were officially at risk. -
The very first of the many to come American troops land in France. The US now has active-duty soldiers. -
The Sedition Act of 1918 made it a crime to write or speak anything about the government that was false, scandalous, or malicious. This was very necessary during war-time. -
Soldiers all claim that they shot the last shot. This was because the fighting was finally over on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. The US was allowed to start to relax and breathe a little. -
Germany had finally signed the 230 page treaty which formally ended the war. Americans, as well as the rest of the world, were thrilled that the war was finally over.
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