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time line 8/4/1914
Austria has chosen war -
timeline 6/28/1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Astria heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo -
5/7/1915
the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania -
11/7/1916
American voters re-elect President Woodrow Wilson who had campaigned on the slogan, "He kept us out of war.