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17th amendment was modified -
It Sparked a chain of events that led to World War 2 -
Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States. -
First World War fought from 5 to September 12 .Saving Paris From Germans. -
German Ambassador to the United Sates Count Johann von Bernstoff presented U.S Secretary of sate Robert Lansing a note declaring Germany intention to restart unrestricted submarine wafare. -
The RMS Lusitania was a UK-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. -
A German Uboat torpedoed the British owned Steam boat Lusitania,killing 1,195 -
One of the longest and bloodiest wars in WW1. French repulsed against the French. -
Torpedoing A French Cross Channel passenger steamer -
The British and the France launched a frontal attack against Germany. -
Main Purpose to keep us out of war.He claimed his place within the Progressive movement with his economic reform package. -
The telegram intercepted by British intelligence.Greatest intelligence coup in WW1 -
Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 became the primary motivation behind Wilson's decision to lead the United States into World War I. -
To that end, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law on May 18, 1917. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft. -
The Espionage Act of 1917 was a law passed by Congress after the United States entered World War I designed to protect the war effort from disloyal European immigrants. -
Although the first American troops arrived in Europe in June 1917, the AEF did not fully participate at the front until October, when the First Division, one of the best-trained divisions of the AEF, entered the trenches at Nancy, France. -
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
On March 3, 1918, in the city of Brest-Litovsk, located in modern-day Belarus near the Polish border, Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers ending its participation in World War I. -
The flu pandemic lasts from 1918 to 1920. From spring of 1918 to spring of 1919, the flu causes more than 550,000 deaths in the U.S. and more than 20 million deaths worldwide. In the fall of 1918 at Mayo Clinic, people with the flu and other contagious illnesses are cared for in the isolation hospital. -
The Sedition Act of 1918 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. -
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the largest operations of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I, with over a million American soldiers participating. It was also the deadliest campaign in American history, resulting in over 26,000 soldiers being killed in action (KIA) and over 120,000 total casualties.Oct 16, 2018 -
On Nov. 11, 1918, after 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 armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
The Paris Peace Conference was an international meeting convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War.