world war 1

By junior254

  • america proclamtion neutriality

    many americans saw little reason to entangle themselves in what they viewed as european quarreling and intuge

  • election of woodrow wilson

    wilson defeated incumbent republican william howard taft and third party nominee theodore roosevelt to easly win the 1912 united states presidential election

  • fourteen points by president wilson

    rescibed a program of transparency in international relations free trade freedom of the seas reductions in armaments national self determination

  • assassination of archduke franz ferdinaland

    Germany declared war on russia, serbuia ally,and invade france via belgium

  • battle of the marne

    pushing the germans back for a distance of 40 to 50 miles and thus saved the capital city of paris from capture

  • sinking of the lusitania

    widespread criticism of germany and so germany soon re-imposed its own restrictions on its submarine

  • battle of the verdun

    the french repulsed a major german offensive it was one of the longest bloodiest and most ferocious battles of the war

  • the sussex incident

    torepodeing of a french cross-channel passenger steamer the sussex by a german submarine leaving 80 casualities including two americans wounded

  • battle of the somme

    British and french forces launched a fontal attack against an entrenched german army north of the somme river in france

  • the re election of president woodrow wilson

    democratic president woodrow wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the supreme court charles evans hughes

  • interception of the zimmermann telegram

    decrypted a coded german telegram from german foreign secretary arthur zimmermann that was inteed for germany's ambassador to mexico

  • declaration of new unrestricted submarine warfare by germnany

    bethmann hollweg went before the german reichstag goverment and made the announcement the unresyricted submarine warfare

  • united states enters world war 1

    u.s. senators voted in support of the measure to declare war on germany the house concoured two days later the united states later declared was on german ally austria hungray

  • passing of the sedition act

    createed the free speech rights of u.s. citizens during time and war passed on may 16,1918 as an amendment

  • selective service act

    which authorized the federal goverment to temporairly expand the military through conscription the act eventually requireed all men between the ages

  • the espionage act

    to convey information with the internet to interfare with the operation or success of the armed forces of the united states or to promote

  • landing of the american expeditionary

    october when the frist division one of the best trained divisions of the aef entered the trenches at nancy france

  • beginning of the spanish flu epidemic

    could see influenza jumping from army camp to camp then into cities and traveling with troops to europe

  • russua pulls out of world war 1

    seperate peace of treaty signeed on march 3 1918 between soviet russia and the central powers , by which russia withdrew from world war 1

  • battle of argone forest

    it was largely fought by american troops demonstarting their impact on the allied war effort

  • armistice day ends world war 1

    fter more than four years of hormic fighting and the loss of millions of lives the guns on the western front fell silent

  • paris peace conference act

    the treaty of versailles was the primary treaty produced by the paris peace conference at the end of world war 1