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Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed while riding his car while visit Sarajevo in Bosnia. A bomb is thrown at their auto but misses. they continue their visit only to be shot and killed a short time later by a lone assassin. -
Great Britain declares war on Germany. -
Lusitania sinks drowning 1,201 persons, including 128 Americans. -
American voters re-elect President Woodrow Wilson who had campaigned on the slogan, "He kept us out of war." -
he British intercept a telegram sent by Alfred Zimmermann in the German Foreign Office to the German embassies in Washington, D.C.The Zimmermann telegram is passed along by the British to the Americans and is then made public, causing an outcry from interventionists in the U.S., such as former president Teddy Roosevelt, who favor American military involvement in the war. -
- The United States of America declares war on Germany.
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The first American troops land in France. -
The Sedition Act of 1918 was enacted on May 16, 1918, The Sedition Act covered a broader range of offenses, notably speech -
At 5:10 am, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am--the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. -
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.