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Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand gets assassinated by who they believe was a Serbian Nationalist using a gun. President Wilson wanted to keep America neutral and out of the war. -
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Britain enacts the Defense of the Realm Act (DORA) giving the government more control of the economy and daily life. -
A German U-Boat off the Irish coast torpedoes and sinks it. causing about 1200 deaths including 128 Americans. This causes President Wilson to protest German U-Boats by sending 4 diplomats. -
The United States Reelects President Wilson who campaigned on the slogan that "He kept us out of war!" -
Britan intercepts a telegram from Germany to Mexico, it promised Mexico its old American territories if they joined the Central powers. Britan published the telegram, outraging the American Public. -
The United States congress voted to join the war on May 6th, 1917. -
The first American soldiers to fight in the war land in France. -
Due to widespread opposition to the war, Woodrow Wilson enacted the sedition act of 1918, it imprisoned over 1000 U.S. Citizens. Their crime was opposing the government. -
At 5:10 am in a railway car, the Germans and the French signed the Armistice, ending the war at 11 am precisely, about 2000 deaths happened before the war had ended. -
At Versailles in France, a German representative signs the treaty, ending the war.