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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on this day in 1914.
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The Great War is the war against every country.
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This made it possible for ships to go through any place.
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The Lusitania was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland.
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One of the largest battles of the First World War.
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After a hard-fought contest, Wilson defeated Hughes by nearly 600,000 votes in the popular vote and secured a narrow majority in the Electoral College by winning several swing states with razor-thin margins.
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Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America.
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Allowed the Federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into ww1.
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Merchant vessels sailing together with or without a naval escort, for mutual security and protection.
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Was originally found in title 50 of the US Code but is now found under title 18.
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Growing battlefield losses and defeats had exacerbated the discontent of the Russian populace that led to the revolution, and the Bolsheviks wanted to consolidate their power rather than continue to oppose the Central Powers with their weakened military.
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The 1918 pandemic flu saw high mortality rates among healthy adults. In fact, the illness and mortality rates were highest among adults 20 to 50 years old. The reasons for this remain unknown.
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The Fourteen Points speech was the only explicit statement of war aims by any of the nations fighting in World War I.
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A piece of legislation designed to protect America’s participation in World War I.
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This ended the fighting on the western front.
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They declare war because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
