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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were on a visit to Sarajevo in Bosnia, A bomb was thrown at their car and missed but not long after he was shot by a lone assassin. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand started the whole War. -
U.S. announced it neutrality because the President wanted to be out of any other conflicts, and The President knew the U.S. was not strong enough to fight with European power. -
A ship called the Lusitania gets shot and ends up sinking by a German U-boat (U-20), this boat was going from New York to Liverpool and ended up killing 128 American people. -
American voters re-elect President Woodrow Wilson because he campaigned on the slogan being "He kept us out of war" -
The British intercept a telegram from the Germans to Mexico stating Germany would help Mexico expand into southwest America gaining their old land back (New Mexico, Texas, Arizona). This message gets passed along to the Americans and is made public which causes an outcry from interventionists. -
The United States formally declares war against Germany and gets involved in Europe's conflict. -
The Americans first troop lands off in France -
The Sedition Act of 1918 was enacted on May 16, 1918 to extend the Espionage Act of 1917. The Sedition Act covered a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. This meant that if any Citizen of the U.S. were to write a false newspaper or publish anything false about the Government it would be accounted as a crime -
At 5:10 am, in a railway car at Compiègne, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am--the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Fighting continues all along the Western Front until precisely 11 o'clock, with 2,000 casualties experienced that day by all sides. Artillery barrages also erupt as 11 am draws near as soldiers yearn to claim they fired the very last shot in the war. the United States returned to civilian production -
At the Palace of Versailles in France, a German delegation signs the Treaty formally ending the war. Its 230 pages contain terms that have little in common with Wilson's Fourteen Points as the Germans had hoped. Germans back home react with mass demonstrations against the perceived harshness, especially clauses that assess sole blame for the war on Germany. The treaty was Rejected by the U.S. senate twice, but then signed a peace treaty with Germany
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