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Congress passed a bill, creating the US Army
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America was looking to buy Alaska but couldn't because of the Civil War. After the war, the president signed a treaty, buying the property.
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The leader of Austria-Hungary and his wife were killed.
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Russia supported the Serbians while Germany supported Austria-Hungary. The Germans gave Austria-Hungary a telegrammed a blank check to Austria. This set the stage for a war in Eastern Europe.
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Four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Russia and Germany declare war on each other. France tells Great Britain to join, creating the Triple Entente alliance
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The Germans torpedo a British ocean liner without warning. It killed 1,198 people, including 128 Americans.
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Germans sent a telegram to the head of Mexico, promising land from the USA if they helped fight in the war. This cause the USA to get angry and join the war. Mexico was to busy fighting a civil war to get involved.
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The Battle of Amiens was the final battle of WW1 caused 9.7 million military deaths, nearly 8.9 million civilian deaths, and wounded 19.8 soldiers.
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The treaty was signed on June 28, 1919. The Germans were told to pay reparations, scale down many of its weapons, and resigned some of Germans boundaries. Many people of Germany agreed but some didn't. Some terrorist killed many politicians involved in the signing.
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After the chaos of WW1, Hitler took up political work in Munich. His group soon started a right-wing government. Hitler became the leader of the Nazi movement shortly after.
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Six new countries formed were Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Estonia. These countries were formed after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
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The Dawes Plan was a plan for the collection of the German reparations after WW1. The Dawes Plan was created by the chairmanship of the American banker Charles G. Dawes as a war reparations payment plan for Germany. It was proposed by the Dawes Committee on April 9, 1924, and accepted by the Allied and German Governments on August 30, 1924.
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The Young Plan was the second renegotiation of Germany’s WW1 reparation payments. A new committee, run by Owen D. Young, met in Paris, to revise the Dawes Plan. Because of the rise of Hitler and the Great Depression, the plan was never accepted.
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Investors traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. This caused billions of dollars to be lost, which wiped out thousands of investors.
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Because of the stock market crash, everyone ran to banks to withdraw all their money which cause banks to fail. 50% of America's banks had failed
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The president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor of Germany.
