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Ferdinand killing
Archduke Franz Ferdinand went to the Austro-Hungarian throne and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. They were shot to death by Gavrilo Princip a Bosnian student and member of the Serbian secret society "Black Hand". The assassination was the immediate cause of World War One, which lasted from 1914 until 1918 -
Great Britian declares war on Germany
Great Britian declares war on Germany as there are combining forces with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa. US declares neutrality on the outbreak of WWI and decide to not be in this anymore and stay back. -
Germany torpedos the British
the German submarine boat U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans.
This made the U S enter World War I -
president Wilson reelected as president
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate.
It brought Americans hope after he kept them out of the ongoing war. -
Germanys deal with the U S
British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause. -
The U S declared war
the United States declared war on the German Empire, joining France, Great Britain, Russia, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Italy. They were arrayed against Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. -
They are here !!
the First US troops arrive in France. The first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines. -
The Sedition Act of 1918
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. After the Sedition Act, passed on May 16, 1918, augmented the already stringent Espionage the New York Herald ran this cartoon by William Allen Rogers touting Uncle Sam's expanded authority to round up those that would oppose the government. -
The war is over !
World War I Ends On November 11, 1918 an armistice was signed between the Germans and the Allies ending World War I more than 30,000 Americans who died in the First World War are buried overseas. The American Battle Monuments Commission commemorates the sacrifice of those who fell through the care of the hallowed grounds in which they lie -
The Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. It was signed on June 28, 1919, by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles