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Arch duke assasinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife, visit Sarajevo in Bosnia. A bomb is thrown at their auto but misses. Undaunted, they continue their visit only to be shot and killed a short time later by a lone assassin. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand is considered the most immediate cause of World War I. -
DORA
Britain enacts the Defense of the Realm Act (DORA) granting unprecedented powers to the government to control the economy and daily life. it impacts US organizations that offer financial services within the EU or provide third-party services to EU financial services companies. -
British U-Boat attacked
A German U-Boat torpedoes the British passenger liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. It sinks in 18 minutes, drowning 1,201 persons, including 128 Americans. President Woodrow Wilson subsequently sends four diplomatic protests to Germany. It impacts the Us because their were US passengers on the boat -
President Woodrow re-elected
American voters re-elect President Woodrow Wilson who had campaigned on the slogan, "He kept us out of war." By virtue of this legislation and the slogan “he kept us out of war,” Wilson narrowly won re-election. But after the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. -
Mexico tries to expand into american southwest
The British intercept a telegram sent by Alfred Zimmermann in the German Foreign Office to the German embassies in Washington, D.C., and Mexico City. Its message outlines plans for an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States. According to the scheme, Germany would provide tactical support while Mexico would benefit by expanding into the American Southwest, retrieving territories that had once been part of Mexico. impacts the US because mexico was trying to take territory -
US declares war on germany
The United States of America declares war on Germany. impacts the US because they have to go to war -
American troops arrive in france
The first American troops land in France. The arrival of the first units of American soldiers was a much anticipated and welcome symbol of relief to the war weary French. -
Sedition act
The Sedition Act of 1918 was enacted on May 16, 1918 to extend the Espionage Act of 1917. 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. made it a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish... any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the government. -
Armstice ends fighting
At 5:10 am, in a railway car at Compiègne, France, the Germans sign the Armistice which is effective at 11 am--the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Fighting continues all along the Western Front until precisely 11 o'clock, with 2,000 casualties experienced that day by all sides. he Armistice did not end the First World War itself, but it was the agreement which stopped the fighting on the Western Front while the terms of the permanent peace were discussed. -
Treaty of Versailes
At the Palace of Versailles in France, a German delegation signs the Treaty formally ending the war. Its 230 pages contain terms that have little in common with Wilson's Fourteen Points as the Germans had hoped.
Many Americans felt the treaty was too harsh on Germany, and it let Britain and France become too powerful. They became isolationist and didn't want to get involved in foreign affairs. Wilson was upset with the treaty.