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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip.
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Woodrow Wilson called for Americans to be "impartial in thought as well as action." Americans Have Divided Loyalties 1/3 Americans were foreign born. Germany Americans sided with Germany Irish Americans hated Britain Jewish Americans hated the Russian Tsars.
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the sinking of the Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany.
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only 14,000 American soldiers had arrived in France, and the AEF had only a minor participation at the front through late October 1917, but by May 1918 over one million American troops
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was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
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President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. On April 6, Congress granted the request and the United States was formally at war with Germany
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CPI was created to promote the war domestically while publicizing American war aims abroad. Under the leadership of a muckraking journalist named George Creel.
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authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I.
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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, or Battle of Reims was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during the First World War.
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was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany – also known as the Armistice of Compiègne after the location in which it was signed – and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
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The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I,
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the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles based primarily on objections to the League of Nations. The U.S. would never ratify the treaty or join the League of Nations.
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