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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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President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would remain “impartial in thought as well as in action.” At the time, a vast majority of Americans approved of Wilson's policy of strict U.S. neutrality.
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a German U-boat torpedoed the British-owned luxury steamship Lusitania, killing 1,195 people including 128 Americans, according to the Library of Congress.
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The first American troops, who were often called "Doughboys," landed in Europe in June 1917.
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Zimmermann Telegram, also called Zimmermann Note, coded telegram sent January 16, 1917, by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German minister in Mexico.
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On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany.
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CPI established to mobilize public opinion behind World War I.
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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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prohibited obtaining information relating to national defense for any advantage for foreign countries.
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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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Conceived as an attempt to draw Allied troops south from Flanders to facilitate an attack in that region
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The Paris Peace Conference was an international meeting convened in January 1919 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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It included a provision, championed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, for the creation of an international body called the League of Nations.
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On 22 June 1940, the French delegation signed the Armistice agreement imposed by Germany at the very location of the 1918 Armistice signing. This entailed France's surrender in the Second World War.
