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Franz Ferdinand is Assassinated
Franz Ferdinand is in line to become the king. Gavorilo Princip Kills Ferdinand. -
Diplomatic Crisis
Austria-Hungary declared war in Russia -
Germany and Russis
Germany declares war on Russia -
Tannenberg
Germans stop Russian advance -
Schlieffen Plan
Germany invaded Belgium
Went through Belguim to Paris -
Advance halted
Germans advance halted -
Germany
Germans used chemical weapons for the first time -
Labor Shortage
United States had a labor shortage -
French held lonegest line
French held the longest line in battle
Feb.-July -
First Battle of Somme
July-November
Trench Warfare- Military operations in which the opposing forces attack and for systerms of fortified ditches. -
U.S. Presidential Election
Democrats renominated Wilson
Repubicans nominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes -
U-boats Sink
U-boats would sink all ships in British waters -
War Resolution
Guests crowded into the capitol building to hear President Wilson deliver his war resolution -
Selective Service Act
Congress passed the Selective Service Act.
Required men to register with the government in oreder to be randomly selected in military service. -
U-boat sank
1,198 people lost (128 were Americans)
British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland
Americans becamed outraged with Germany
