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The Paris Peace Conference convened in January 1919 at Versailles just outside Paris. The conference was called to establish the terms of the peace after World . -
The 1918 influenza pandemic, commonly known by the misnomer Spanish flu or as the Great Influenza epidemic -
The Fourteen Points speech of President Woodrow Wilson was an address delivered before a joint meeting of Congress on January 8, 1918, during which Wilson outlined his vision for a stable, long-lasting peace in Europe, the Americas and the rest of the world following World War I. -
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the largest operation 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. -
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. -
Zimmermann Telegram Decoded. The British decode the intercepted message and discover the German proposal for an alliance with Mexico against the United States. -
Congress enacted the Espionage Act of 1917 on June 15, two months after the United States entered World War I. -
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. -
Wilson prevailed in the 1916 election, becoming the first Democrat to win a second consecutive term since Andrew Jackson. His narrow victory by 277 to 254 -
Sussex Incident, March 24, 1916, torpedoing of a French cross-Channel passenger steamer, the Sussex, by a German submarine, leaving 80 casualties, including two Americans wounded -
The Battle of the Somme also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third -
The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War -
The first Battle of Ypres in October 1914 -
War is declared July through August 1914 -
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As World War I erupts in Europe, President Woodrow Wilson formally proclaims the neutrality of the United States, a position that a vast majority of Americans favored, on August 4, 1914. -
The First Battle of the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914 -
A German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned steamship Lusitania, killing 1195 people including 123 Americans, on May 7, 1915 -
Unrestricted submarine warfare was first introduced in World War I in early 1915, when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, -
Age limits; training in National Security Training Corps physical and mental fitness; adequate training facilities; assignment to stations -
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 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