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Assasination of Archduke
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo. The assassination sparks World War I. -
WWI
Germany invades Belgium starting WWI. Germans started fire with shells filled with chlorine gas at allied lines. It was the first time large amounts of gas has been used. -
Lusitania Sinks
Lusitania Sinks a German submarine sinks the passenger liner Lusitania. The ship carried 1,198 people, 128 of them were Americans. -
Tanks
The British employ the first tank ever used in battle. Although they are useful at breaking through barbed wire and clearing a path for the infantry. -
Enlisted
He joined the army in 1917 and too 1919. He was enlisted in the service, He was a corporal and was not a prisoner of war. He was a runner served as a machine gunner and section chief. -
1st letter from the treasury (form 908)
Letter from the treasury department distinguish the government allowance from Edgar D. Andrews. His allowance has been eliminated since it appeared from the questionnaire filed by you with this bureau, that your income is sufficient to place you as non-dependent. -
Service Location
Edgar D. Andrews served in the Massachusetts National Army. He also went over seas and fought in France. He served the U.S. for over 4 years. -
Zimmerman Telegram
British intelligence gave Wilson the Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann proposing that Mexico side with Germany in case of war between Germany and the United States. In return, Germany promises to return to Mexico the "lost provinces" of Texas and much of the rest of the American Southwest. Mexico declines the offer. -
U.S. Enters War
The Congress of the United States passed a declaration of war against Germany. The U.S. enters WWI on the side of France and Britain. -
Selective Service Act
Congress passed the selective Service Act authorizing the draft. Although criticizing for destroying democracy at home while fighting for it aboard, President Wilson claimed he saw no other option and signed the Law. -
Company A
Edgar D. Andrews was in company A, He was the 102nd Machine gun battalion, 26th division, he also served in the Massachusetts National Guard. -
Germany and Russia Peace
The Germans sign a peace treaty with the government of Russia. The terms of the treaty give Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukraine and Poland, and peace on the Eastern Front allows Germany to shift soldiers to the western front, causing serious problems for the French, British and Americans. -
Battle of Cantigny
The battle of Cantigny is the first major American offensive of the war. Though small in scale, Americans fought bravely soon goon to larger attacks against German Position. -
First battle
Friends and troops from A company are participating in serious fighting in the battle of Seichey on April 20th. The company lost five men killed in action and 10 allegedly wounded as followed. The battle seichey was Americas first engagement on the major scale. " We had to teach those Americans a lesson" was one of the purpose of German attacks that showed that the Yankees can meet about three times their numbers of Germans. -
Chateau Thieryy Battle
In the Chateau battle the Americans attacks the German in the Chateau- Thierry. After this battle it morphed into the larger battle that then would be the Belleau Wood. -
Battle of Belleau Wood
The battle of Belleau Wood began at an open wheat field and then carried on into the Belleau Forest. This was during the Germans springs offensive in WWI, near the Marne river in France. The after math of the battle took a lot of casualties. -
Belleau Wood ends
The battle ends it was the farthest the Germans have traveled. It too around 10,000 Americans soldiers lives. It was the farthest advance on Paris. -
Kaiser Wilhelm
Kaiser ended all of Germans hopes to win the War. He then moves and lives in the Netherlands and writes a memoir of his defendings of his actions of the War. -
Armistice Day
On November 11 their was an armistice signed ending fighting in the Western Front. It is also known as Veterans Day.
