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Archibald's education
He attended school in a middle town and graduated in 1910 with mechanical engineer degree. -
Franz Ferdinand's assassination
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the trigger of the war which entangled international alliances formed over previous decades.
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World War I starts.
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United States into World War
The primary issue that caused President Woodrow Wilson ask the Congress to declare the war to Germany was the unrestricted submarine sent by them into U.S.
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The Allies
Great Britain, United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan formed the Allies during World War I www.mtholyoke.edu/~raina20s/ww1/play.html -
The Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria were part of the Central Powers which were against the Allies during the war
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Archibald's entry to the U.S. Army
Archibald S. Aslop was born in Minnesota. He played a role as soldier in the army and started the war in 1917. Aslop served 3 years in the U.S. Army and with the yale mobile hospital unit in 1917. -
Letter home during work-preparing.
“A year ago since we landed at Lehavre, France................have just passed through one of our periods of work- preparing for this offensive. Then the actual work of taking care of the wounded. For two days and nights the doctors operating, others doing their part...The noise of the guns has changed from earlier trembling dull roar, to a faint, distant sound.”
That was his words for his family in United States during his training. memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/story/loc.natib.afc2001001.37834 -
Letter after they occupied German territory.
“We have been filled with hope of an armistice yet have prepared for maximum capacity here (the hospital).....surely the Germans will sign terms soon, every day now that fighting continues, when we know the inevitable result will be in our favor.” -
World War I ends.
The war ends, at 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, obtained the manpower and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of France. -
Telegram at the end of the war
“At last the great war is over. Victory is with the allies; the cost in lives, material and money has been terrible.”
