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Franz Ferdinand and his wife visited Sarajevo in Bosnia and got assassinated by a Serbian nationalist, leading the Austrians to target their anger towards Serbia. This relates to the US because they are in alliance with Austria.
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Great Britain declared war on Germany, and this automatically gets other countries involved. Germans start attacking on the Belgian fortress city, and the US declared to stay neutral.
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British passenger liner gets torpedoed off of the Irish Coast by a German u-boat. This killed 1208 people, 128 being American. This lead Woodrow Wilson to send 4 diplomatic protests to Germany.
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the American troops landed in France
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Americans re-elected Woodrow Wilson to be president again as he was believed to have kept them out of war
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The British interrupt a telegram from German Foreign office to German embassies about an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the US. The British passed the information to the US and it is made public, ideas of American involvement in war is starting are starting to occur
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America declared war on Germany
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the sedition act was enacted to elongate the espionage act of 1917
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Germans sign armstice in france, fighting continues until 11 am
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Germans sign treaty in France ending the war. Germans face consequences.