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6/28/1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist and Austrians target their anger toward Serbia and the U.S was not involved. -
8/4/1914
Great Britain and France declare war on Austria-Hungary and the U.S will support with supplies -
5/7/1915
A German U-Boat torpedoes the British passenger liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. It sinks in 18 minutes, drowning 1,201 persons, including 128 Americans -
11/7/1916
American voters re-elect President Woodrow Wilson who had campaigned on the slogan, "He kept us out of war." this confident to us so we stay out of the war -
1/19/1917
Its message outlines plans for an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States. According to the scheme, Germany would provide tactical support while Mexico would benefit by expanding into the American Southwest, retrieving territories that had once been part of Mexico. This is important to us is the public is getting angry and want to join -
4/6/1917
the United States of America declares war on Germany. this is impotent because we have have ships being sank and we did not enter the war. -
6/25/1917
The first American troops land in France. we had to go to the war and help out with our allies -
5/16/1918
The Sedition Act of 1918 was enacted on May 16, 1918 to extend the Espionage Act of 1917. this happen to use so we have more time to build for the war -
11/11/1918
At 5:10 am, in a railway car at Compiègne, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am--the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Fighting continues all along the Western Front until precisely 11 o'clock, with 2,000 casualties experienced that day by all sides. this was the end of the war for us. -
6/28/1919
At the Palace of Versailles in France, a German delegation signs the Treaty formally ending the war. Its 230 pages contain terms that have little in common with Wilson's Fourteen Points as the Germans had hoped. this is important is we have stop the war and people will have limited power
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