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On June 28, 1914 Franz Ferdinand and Sophie were touring Sarajevo in an open car, with surprisingly little security, when Serbian nationalist Nedjelko Cabrinovic threw a bomb at their car; it rolled of the back of the vehicle and wounded an officer and some bystanders.
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The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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Proclaimed that the North Sea was a war zone
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The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday May 7 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany
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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 and French empires against the German Empire
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Wilson won against Charles Evans Hughes in the 1916 election
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A note sent from Germany to Mexico trying to get them to Ally with Germany
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The US declared war on Germany because of their use of unrestricted submarines warfare and also of the Zimmerman Note
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It authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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Ships would sail together for protection and security
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Made it a crime for any person to convey information intended to interfere with the U.S. armed forces prosecution of the war effort or to promote the success of the country’s enemies.
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1918; an unusually deadly influenza epidemic
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The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3rd 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers that ended Russia's participation in World War 1
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Extended the espionage act by nobility speech and expression of opinion
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The agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
