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Gavrilo Princep assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife. His assassination sparked the beginning of WWI.
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Ausria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after a Serbian man Gavrilo Princep assassinated the Archduke.
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The first use of poison gas was by the Germans. Germans solders fired more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions.
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A German U-Boat torpedoed a British ocean liner called the Lusitania. Over 1000, people died including 128 Americans. The sinking pressured President Wilson to join WWI.
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Wilson pledged to remain neutral throughout WWI. His slogan was "He kept us out of war". This led to Wilson's victory against Charles Evens Hughs in the 1916 election,
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Arthur Zimmermann was a German minister who sent a telegram to the German embassy in mexico to fight against America; the Zimmermann note was intercepted by the British. President Wilson was informed and finally asked congress to join the war
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Wilson request congress to declare war against Germany
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Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks who overthrew provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. Czar Nicholas and his 5 kids and wife are all executed by the Bolsheviks
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World War I also known as the great war, ended at 11:00 am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918 Germany signed the armistice, an agreement for peace and no more fighting..
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WWI officially ended when Germany signed the treaty of Versailles on June 28 1919.
