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Archiduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were in assassinated while visiting Sarajevo, Bosnia. He was next in line for the Austro- Hungarian throne. The killings set off decades of old tensions in Europe and started WWI.
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Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia for the assassination of Archiduke and his wife. With Germany's support with Austria-Hungary, it gave Serbia a list of demands and Serbia refused.
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The Germans were the first to use poison gas against the Allies. The poison gas was killing a ton of soldiers from the Allies, so the Allies started using it to. As the was went on, eventually soldiers had to wear gas masks.
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A British passenger liner that was on the coast of Ireland. Germans had made a surprise attack on the ship because they thought that the ship had weapons on it. More than 1,000 people had died and 128 of them were Americans, this had upset President Wilson and American citizens.
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America wanted to stay neutrality in World War I. Woodrow Wilson tried with all his power to keep America neutral.
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It offered Germany to make an alliance with Mexico. If America had joined WWI then Mexico would be enemies with America. Americans were furious.
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Russian government was struggling to supply food for Russian soldiers and troops. This was because their government had replaced czar and it had caused Russia many problems. A group called the Bolsheviks had overthrown government because they wanted to leave war and focus on setting up a new Communist state.
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President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to sign a declaration of war against Germany on April 2, 1917. Congress passes declaration on April 6.
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Germany surrenders huge amounts of their supplies and equipment and offers to withdraw the fleet on Baltic Sea. All the fighting had stopped and everyone stopped being violent. The Allies had won the war!
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Germany had to take full responsibility for the conflicts during war time. It had to pay the Allies billions of dollars, disarm completely, and give up overseas colonies and some territory in Europe.
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