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His wife Sophie is shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of war world 1 in early August. Who believed the territories should be part of Serbia.19-year-old Gavrilo Princip was able to shoot the royal couple at killing both almost instantly.
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Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people drowned, including 128 Americans. The attack aroused considerable indignation in the United States, but Germany defended the action, noting that it had issued. Several New York newspapers published a warning by the German that Americans traveling on British or Allied ships in war zones did so at their own risk.
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President Woodrow Wilson tells Congress to request to declare war on Germany. Wilson is German he wants to enter Mexico with them so they attack the United States. Which the United States voted so they can have the war with Germany. Wilson threatened to sever diplomatic relations with Germany unless the German Government refrained from attacking all passenger ships.
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President Woodrow Wilson spoke of the need for the United States to enter the war in part to “make the world safe for democracy.” with the achievement of this through the dismantling of European empires and the creation of new states. Point 14, which called for a “general association of nations” that would offer “mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike.” President Wilson wants to get the Treaty of Versailles in the fourteen points.
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July 14th is Bastille Day in France. In the French capital of Paris, the German forces knew that there would be parties and lots of people in the streets. They believed it would be a good time to attack. The French expected the attack. After hours of artillery shelling, the Germans began their attack. The French had dug trenches in preparation and were able to fight them back.
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He was tasked with reinforcing the front lines. After days of fighting the English troops had taken a German trench. The troops had left behind stockpiles of munitions with the intent to hit them with artillery later causing massive French casualties. One night the French troops laid next to the munitions acting as a barrier from torrent rainfall. The German artillery started in the middle of the night and hit one of the munitions stockpiles killing multiple French soldiers.
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Witnessing shellshock as one troop seemed to lose his mind. He could not stop laughing. The soldier was sent to the back for treatment and returned a few days later. He still was not cured. When the shelling began again he went into a nervous state and was unfit for combat.
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The 7th Group went to the hill “Le Mort Hommer.” The 8th brigade took up initials just north and west of a little town that had been attacked. It looked like a mound of rubble. At 5:30 AM the sky went from black to red as the artillery rocked the Earth. Once the artillery had stopped, the English 10th and 11th brigades began their assault. The night before engineers had cut large gaps in the barbed wire for the troops to travel through. In the barbed wire for the troops to travel through.
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In the army hospital, they want breakfast and hear what happens to all the men. Then one guy said all the men who can walk could go to the ship to go home. The people who can walk get new stuff to wear and to bring home. He can not sleep that night for a new shit or a coat. He thought about how his family felt that he went home.
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The treaty of her song was a peace document signed by the allied at the end of WW1. It declared that it accepted the Fourteen Points he had formulated as the basis for a just peace. All the allied try to get the money from the people Germany sea or air for the damage. The population and territory of Germany were reduced by about 10 percent by the treaty.
