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Assassinated in Bosnia by an Ultra-nationalist group called the "Black Hand"
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Germany uses their U boats to sink all ships.
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WW1 begins
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Germans sank the Lusitania that was a civilian ship that was carrying americans on board
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an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion
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First battle of WW1 July 1 to Nov 18 1916
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Re-elected Wilson
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as a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico
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War with Germany
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authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War. People were not allowed to speak freely during war.
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he deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet's population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans.
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statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
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driven by the spectacular success of the German U-boat submarines and their attacks on Allied and neutral ships at sea, the British Royal Navy introduces a newly created convoy system, whereby all merchant ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean would travel in groups under the protection of the British
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
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Ended fighting on western front.
