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Edward VII had died from illness and there was a funeral. Many kings had gathered together to the funeral
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The Balkan war were two military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of almost all of its territory in Europe
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President Woodrow Wilson, who would serve as commander in chief during World War 1, officially becomes President for the first of two terms
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On this day, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was shot by Gavrillo Princip. This event is often considered the spark for World War 1, which would grow because of entangling alliances.
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Germany invades neutral Belgium. Britain then sends an ultimatum, rejected by Germans, to withdraw from Belgium
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A series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the western Front of World War 1 around Christmas of 1914
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A British ship sucked by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland
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A military operation conducted by the United States army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco Pancho villa
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The battle of world war 1 fought by the armies of the British empire and France against the German empire
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The 33rd quadrennial presidential election. Incumbent democratic president Woodrow Wilson defeated supreme court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the republican candidate
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The Zimmerman telegram was a secretive communication between Germany and Mexico
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Woodrow Wilson asks Congress for declaration of war, saying the world must be made safe for democracy
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The battle of cantigny was the first major American battle and offensive of world war 1
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The battle of belleau wood begins as the U.S Marine Corps attacks the Germans across an open field of wheat, suffering huge casualties.
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The battle of belleau wood ends with the final explosion of the Germans from the wood, which marks the farthest German advance on Paris
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The chateau Thierry was a battle and was one of the first actions of the American Expeditionary Forces under general John J. Black Jack Pershing
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The battle of st. Mihiel begins when 300,000 Americans troops under the direct command of General Pershing fling themselves into the German lines.
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Kaiser Wilhelm abdicates, closing all German hope for success. He and his group silently slips out of the borders to Netherlands where lives the remainder of his life
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An important peace treaty that brought ww1 to an end
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An Armistice is signed ending fighting on the Western Front
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A international peacekeeping organization made at the end of world war 1. The league of nations was able to resolve some international conflicts but failed to prevent world war 2.
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France and the United Kingdom declared war on German after they invaded Poland. The speech was given by the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in Westminster, London
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The United States congress declared war on Germany hours after Germany declared war on the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan.
