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Germany used boat to sink all ship
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a teenage Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as their motorcade maneuvered through the streets of Sarajevo.
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The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo
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less than a year after World War erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.
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Incumbent President Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, was pitted against Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.
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a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
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In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally.
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Authorized federal government to raise national army.
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United States federal law passed shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I.
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which can be defined as a group of merchant vessels sailing together, with or without naval escort, for mutual security and protection, has a much longer history than sometimes suggested.
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A group of Communists led by Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks, overthrew the government and created a Communist government.Lenin wanted to concentrate on building up a communist state and wanted to pull Russia out of the war. ... Germany on the other hand had to remove their army from Russian lands.
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speech on War Aims and Peace Terms, President Wilson set down 14 points as a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I.
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flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus
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was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government
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an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany – also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location in which it was signed – and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
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hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
