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Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 United States presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848. -
Germany declared war on Russia,Serbia's ally,and invaded France via Belgium, which then caused Britain to declare war on Germany -
many Americans saw little reason to entangle themselves in what they viewed as European quarreling and intrigue. -
pushing the Germans back for a distance of 40 to 50 miles and thus saved the capital city of Paris from capture. -
widespread criticism of Germany, and so Germany soon re-imposed its own restrictions on its submarines. -
he French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war -
torpedoing of a French cross-Channel passenger steamer, the Sussex, by a German submarine, leaving 80 casualties, including two Americans wounded. -
British and French forces launched a frontal attack against an entrenched German army north of the Somme River in France. -
Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. -
decrypted a coded German telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann that was intended for Germany's ambassador to Mexico. -
, Bethmann Hollweg went before the German Reichstag government and made the announcement that unrestricted submarine warfare -
U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary -
which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service. -
To convey information with the intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote its enemies' success. This was punishable by death or imprisonment for not more than 30 years or both. -
October, when the First Division, one of the best-trained divisions of the AEF, entered the trenches at Nancy, France. -
could see influenza jumping from Army camp to camp, then into cities, and traveling with troops to Europe. His conclusion: the United States was the site of origin -
rescribed a program of transparency in international relations, free trade, freedom of the seas, reductions in armaments, national self-determination, and adjustment of colonial claims that gave equal weight to the peoples of the colonized countries. -
separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I. -
curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war. Passed on May 16, 1918, as an amendment to Title I of the Espionage Act of 1917, the act provided for further and expanded limitations on speech. -
it was largely fought by American troops demonstrating their impact on the Allied war effort. The turning point battles of WWI were long in the past by the time of this offensive. -
fter more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere -
The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. It was signed on June 28, 1919, by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles