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After escaping an assassins bomb only hours later him and his wife(the Duchess of Hohenberg) get killed by Gavrilo Princip. Then Austria hungary declares war on serbia after the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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A German submarine sinks a passenger boat holding 128 Americans, killing them all. They were traveling to Liverpool from New York; some of the passengers could have even been soldiers from our country or other countries.
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Germany starts using submarines to take down only enemy boats and not civilian boats. For the first time after sinking the Lusitania and for the first time after they agreed to the Sussex Pledge, but then they broke it by saying they were going to start sinking ships again.
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The article discusses how the United States entered World War I in April 1917 due to several major events, such as the sinking of the Lusitania and the discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram. It focuses a lot on the 1st Infantry Division. The most important thing they did was help free Cantigny, which clearly showed that America was starting to play a major role in the war.
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Right after the Bolsheviks took over Russia in 1917, they wanted to stop fighting in World War I and focus on helping the people at home. Since Britain and France wouldn’t start peace talks, they went to Germany and Austria instead. This led to Russia making an agreement to stop fighting with the Central Powers.
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Telling them where he was and what he has been going through so far in the war and he talks about all he has been eating is beans and how there would sometimes be over 100 mattresses in the same room and how he would have to keep his uniform under his bed because it was the only safe spot to keep it so he would be able to bring it home.
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Talking about how it is their first Christmas without each other after 28 years, and how he wishes them a merry Christmas. He also talked about how it was so foggy he could hardly even see 40 feet in front of him, and how he thinks he will like the life he is living.
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World War I ended on November 11, 1918, when Germany signed an agreement to stop fighting with the Allies. This came after years of brutal trench warfare and millions of soldiers dying on both sides. The arrival of American troops in 1918 helped turn things around for the Allies and forced Germany to give up.
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In January 1919, Will wrote to his mother from the U.S.S. New Hampshire as he sailed home from France after nine months abroad. He shared his joy at real food, warm weather, and the thought of soon being back in the U.S.A.