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At around 11 AM in SaraJevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assasinated by gunshot wound that landed in his Jugular vein -
Germany invades Luxembourg and Belgium. France invades Alsace. British forces arrive in France. Nations allied against Germany were eventually to include Great Britian, Russia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Romania, Greece, France. Belgium. United states, Canada, Serbia, India, Portugal, Montenegro and Poland -
A council was held at Potsdam, where leaders from Austria-Hungary and Germany met to discuss possibilities of war with Serbia, Russia and France. concluding it had become necessary 'to eliminate Serbia" in spite of expected resistance from her allies -
The Japanese and British seized Jiaozhou bay in China, the base of the Germany East Asia Squadron. The last of the German fleet still in the port were sank including gunship SMS Jaguar. -
British navel intelligence intercepted and decrypted a telegram sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Ambassador In Mexico City -
the United States declared war on the German Empire, Joining France. Great Britian, Russia, Canada. Australia, New Zealand, South and Italy. -
The first troops arrive in France the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the German submarines -
The Sedition Act of 1918 was enacted on May 16 o1918 to extend the Espionage Act of 1917. The sedition Act covered a broader range of offenses notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in the negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds -
World War 1 Ends on November 11 1918 an armistice was signed between the German and the Allies Ending World War 1 -
The Versailles Peace Treaty, signed on June 28 1919 Officially Ending World War 1
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