WWI events

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  • Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

    A Serbian nationalist shot in Sarajevo
  • Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand

    Austrian prince assassinated and started the World War I
  • Wilson Urges Neutrality

    Wilson Urges Neutrality

    Wilson declared that the US would remain impartial in thought as well as in action
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

    The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania

    A ship sank by Germany and killed 1,198 people
  • America Declares War

    America Declares War

    Wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against Germany
  • Creation of the CPI

    Creation of the CPI

    created committee on public information to promote the war domestically while publicizing American war aims abroad.
  • Selective Service Act

    Selective Service Act

    authorizes the US federal government to raise a national army for service in world war I
  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act

    Federal law passed to punish espionage, and better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes
  • Espionage Act

    Espionage Act

    law passed to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations
  • Wilson’s 14 Points

    Wilson’s 14 Points

    14 points were the statements of peace in order to end WWI
  • Second Battle of Marne

    Second Battle of Marne

    was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War
  • Second Battle of Marne

    Second Battle of Marne

    an attack failed when an Allied counterattack by French and American forces, including several hundred tanks
  • American Troops Enter Europe

    American Troops Enter Europe

    The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF were the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe in World War I
  • paris Peace Conference

    paris Peace Conference

    meeting of the victorious allied powers following the end of WWI defeating central power
  • Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

    Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

    the US would never ratify the treaty to join the league of nations
  • Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

    Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

    former peace treaty between germany and was shortly rejected
  • German Surrender in Compiegne, France

    German Surrender in Compiegne, France

    Germans surrender settled a treaty of peace