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A teenage Serbian nationalist killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as they rode down the streets
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World War 1 begins because of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary.
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Kaiser Wilhelm announces proclaims that the North Sea is a war zone and that any ship could be sunk without warning
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The Lusitania was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland.
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also known as the Somme Offensive, one of the largest battles of WW1 fought ear the Somme River in France, it wasone of the bloodiest military battles in history
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Wilson defeated Charles Evans Hughes in the 1916 Presidential Election because he kept America out of war
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A note made by Zimmerman to Mexico that was trying to create an ally saying that Mexico would back up Germany in any US-German conflicts but was intercepted by the British
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US declares war on Germany after the ZImmerman message was discovered planning attack on US
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Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people.
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a group of ships sailing together for mutual security and protection
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Made it a crime for any person to share information that messed 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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A group of Communists led by Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks, overthrew the government and created a Communist government. Lenin wanted to concentrate on building up a communist state and wanted to pull Russia out of the war.
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Swept the world in 1918 killed almost 50 million people. Within months, it had killed more people than any other illness in recorded history.
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A statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War by Woodrow Wilson
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extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses
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An armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany. the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
