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World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States
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A German U-boat operating off the coast of Ireland fired a torpedo into RMS Lusitania, causing the massive ocean liner to list precariously and then sink in just 18 minutes. The attack, part of Germany’s campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare, killed 1,198 passengers and crew members, including 128 Americans.
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The so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America. Germany also promised to restore to Mexico the lost territories of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
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Laid out a policy, only explicit statements of war aims by any of the nations fighting. They ensured that a war never broke out again.
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The sedition act targeted anyone who made false and malicious accusations against a government official. they made it illegal to give bad press to a public official. they enforced immigration restrictions.
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Deadly strain of influenza. The Spanish Flu killed fifty to one hundred million people.
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Peace settlement between Germany and Allied Powers. It ended WW1. Germany had to repair all damage and had to take full responsibility for starting the war.
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19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granted American women the right to vote. A right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. Large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories.
