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The unites states had tried to stay out of the war. Declaring neutrality was one event from the U.S to move down the continuum.
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This funeral was important to ww1 because it had brought a lot of important people in the war together. This happened because Edward the seventh had ties with many other leaders of the war.
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President Woodrow Wilson, who would serve as commander in chief during World war I, officially becomes President for the first of two terms.
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Britain declares war because of turkey's involvement of helping Germany.
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On this day, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary was shot by Gavrilo Princip. This event is often considered the spark for world war 1, which would grow because of entangling alliances.
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France had declared war on Germany because of their ally with Russia. France had to help its ally by helping them fight against Germany.
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This was a response to Hitler's invasion on Poland, Britain and France. The allies that were overturned by him had both declared war on Germany.
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The truce was for a pause in war to celebrate Christmas. Pope Benedict had tried to support this so that there could be a pause in violence to commemorate the soldiers.
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Britain had a passenger boat that had also carried ammunition for the war. The passengers were used to hide the boat from and suspicions. Germany had used a torpedo to strike the 32,000,000 ton boat.
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Germany had restricted submarine use in the mist of the war due to the international out rage over the lusitania.
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He had presented to congress. He had said " peace without victory". This meant there should be peace without any final victory.
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Pancho villa is a bandit from Mexico that had passed the American border and murder 17 American people. America had chased him down but had never caught him.
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Woodrow Wilson and Supreme court justice Charles Evans Hughes had both ran for president. It was really close but Woodrow won.
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A battle against german from Britain and France allies. It Reaches the river somme in France. It is also known as the Somme Offensive.
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Arthur Zimmerman the secretary of state had sent a telegram to a U.S ambassadors to also send to the other one in Mexico. It stated that german want America to stay neutral and wanted Mexico to also join german and have them attack America.
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He had asked stating that "The Worlds must be safe for democracy". A few days later the congress had voted for a war declaration.
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The congress ended the vote for war on April 6th with a strong leaning to the side of war. The sinking of the lusitania, the Zimmerman telegram, and the unrestricted submarine warfare was the final blow to push the United states into the war.
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After America declares war, it takes then a long time to arrive in France for warfare. Only 14,000 troops arrived at first.
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Early morning of this day, these two soldiers from the 15th had fought off the german raiding party.
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This was an agreement between the four more powerful nations in the world to make their voices louder. Smaller countries deserved to have a smaller voice then bigger countries.
