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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the next heir to the Austian throne, and his wife while in sarajevo in Bosnia have a bomb throne at them. luckily it misses, but later on they are killed by a assasian belived to be a serberian nationalist. -
Great britain declares war on Germany, later on America (President Woodrow Wilson) declares its nautrality -
A german U-boat sinks the passanger line, Luistania. drowing 1,201 people, 128 of those people being Americans. President Wilson sends protest to Germany about the incident. -
President woodrow wilson is re-elected as president, his slogan being "He kept us out of war." -
The british intercepted a telegram sent by Alfred Zimmermann in the german foreign office to the embassies located in washington DC and in mexico city. the message was a plan agansit the US for mexico to take back territory whild gaining new territory as well. the british passed it along to the US causing an outcry. -
America declares war on Germany. -
American troops land in France. -
Congress passes the Sedition Act, designed to protect americas participation in the war. -
5:10 in a railway car, france and the germans sign the armistice which goes effective at 11 am, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. fighting continues till 11, proximetly 2,000 casualties by both sides. -
At the Palace of Versailles in France, a German delegation signs the Treaty ending the war. Germans back home react with mass demonstrations against the perceived harshness.