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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinend and his wife. This was the start of WW1. -
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President Woodrow Wilson declared U.S neutrality. -
The German U-boat U-20 torpedoed and sank the British cruise liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,195 people, including 128 Americans, enraging President Woodrow Wilson. -
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. -
The telegram promised Mexico that Germany would help them regain the territory they lost to the United States after the Mexican-American War in exchange for Mexico's support in World War I. The telegram was a major factor in the United States' decision to enter the war. -
The United States entered the war to protect international trade and shipping freedom. The final straw that led to the declaration of war was when Great Britain shared the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram with the United States.
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The first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site was kept a secret to avoid German submarines. The troops were called the "Doughboys" by the British and were not yet ready for fighting in the Western Front. -
President Woodrow Wilson signed the Sedition Act into law, which expanded the Espionage Act of 1917 -
The fighting in World War I officially stopped when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice in Compiègne, France -
Germany and the Allied Nations signed the Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended World War
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