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Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848. -
Two shots in Sarajevo ignited the fires of war and drew Europe toward World War I. Just hours after narrowly escaping an assassin's bomb, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, are killed by Gavrilo Princip -
Many progressives believed much of its power derived from its ability to avoid costly entanglements in Europe and elsewhere. America, they argued, could serve the world best by concentrating on reforms at home and setting an example of peace and democracy. -
The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. -
The sinking of RMS Lusitania caused international outrage and helped turn public opinion against Germany, particularly in the then-neutral United States. -
It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war -
This was the situation during World War I when German submarines sank the French civilian ferry the Sussex in 1916. Though the U.S. was not yet part of the war, two Americans died in this torpedo attack, and President Woodrow Wilson demanded Germany cease targeting civilian ships in the North Atlantic. -
A more professional and effective army emerged from the battle -
Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. Presidential election results map. -
British signals intelligence intercepted and 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 would resume the next day, February 1: "The destructive designs of our opponents cannot be expressed more strongly. We have been challenged to fight to the end. -
the U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The House concurred two days later. -
authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
broadly sought to crack down on wartime activities considered dangerous or disloyal -
The war would soon enter its fourth year with no end in sight. Every French family had been touched by the injury and loss of loved ones, and the austerities of war -
These points were later taken as the basis for peace negotiations at the end of World War I -
Although it remains uncertain where the virus first emerged, it quickly spread through western Europe, and by July it had spread to Poland. The first wave of influenza was comparatively mild. -
because it was in the interest of Russian Communists (Bolsheviks) who took power in November 1917. -
to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. -
It was one of the attacks that brought an end to the War -
the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I.