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World was breaking out in other countries and Wilson confirmed that the U.S would stay peaceful and neutral.
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Serb Gavrilo Princip fired the shots that killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie, during a visit to Sarajevo. This would soon lead to a breakout in War.
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Germany decided to sink the Lusitania because they did not want the ship where it was. This made the US want to go to war.
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The Espionage Act prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information may be used for the injury of the United States
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In November, the first American combat troops entered the European war, landing in French Morocco and pushing the Germans east while the British pushed west.
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The Zimmermann note was a secret communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
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Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 became the primary reason behind Wilson's decision to lead the United States into World War I
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The Consumer Price Index is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
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The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service
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The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
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The Second Battle of the Marne was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War. The attack failed when a counterattack, supported by several hundred tanks, overwhelmed the Germans on their right flank, inflicting severe casualties
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The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI because President Woodrow Wilson didn't take the senators objections to the agreement into consideration. They have made the French treaty subject to the authority of the League, which is not to be tolerated.
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The Paris Peace Conference was an international meeting convened at Versailles just outside Paris. The purpose of the meeting was to establish the terms of the peace after World War
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The French delegation signed the Armistice agreement imposed by Germany at the very location of the Armistice signing. This entailed France's surrender in the war.
