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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand essentially began the events that led to World War I. The people of Austria-Hungary saw the assassination of Ferdinand as an attack on their country.
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President Woodrow Wilson decided that the United States should be neutral in the problems that lead up to the war.
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The Lusitania was targeted and shot down by German enemies. Germany announced 'unrestricted submarine warfare' which gave their soldiers the okay to sink the ship.
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The United States sent their troops over to Europe to begin to help fight the war.
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The zimmerman note was a special way of communicatiom from the German Foreign Office, which showed a plan to form an alliance between Mexico and Germany,
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President Wilson asked congress for the okay to declare war on Germany, and congress agreed on April 6th,1917.
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The CPI, Committee on Public Information,was created to change the opinions the citizens of the U.S. had on joining the war efforts.The CPI created propaganda posters as well.
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This act allowed for the U.S. government to gain an army to serve in WW1 through conscription.
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The espionage act was a law that made it illegal to speak badly about the military or the government.
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President Wilson's 14 points is a speech Wilson gave to congress to explain that we were fighting the war for good causes, and to call for peace with Europe,
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The second battle of The Marne is the last big attack on the germans.The attack was a fail when one of Germany's enemies did a counter-attack on them and took them down.
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The Germans arrived in Compiegne,France where they would sign the Armistice, which ended the fighting of WW1 on land,sea, and air.
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This conference was held to discuss the terms of peace for the 'defeated' central powers.
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Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles,because they disagreed on the portion about the 'League Of Nations', and it was never ratified.
