Lecture Discussion 13 His202

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  • Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

  • Woodrow Wilson is reelected

  • German Uboots attack American shipping in the Atlantic

  • Zimmerman Telegram

  • Germany prepared for unrestricted submarine warfare

  • The United States receives the Zimmerman telegram

  • Woodrow Wilson asks for a Declaration War

  • America enters the war

  • Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States

  • The Selective Service Act passes

  • War Industries board sees an Industrial Production Increase of 20%

  • The Russia Revolution breaks out

  • Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia

  • Americans are finally truly joining the fight in Europe

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    The Provisional Government rules over Russia

  • Tsar Nicholas abdicates from the Russia throne

  • Committee for Public Information created by Woodrow Wilson

  • The Espionage Act was passed

  • James Bethel Gresham became the first American casualty of World War I.

  • Ovr 11,000 American citizens jailed under the Sedition Act

  • Americans begin arriving in large numbers in Europe

  • Woodrow Wilson proposes the Fourteen Points peace plan

  • Russia leaves the war with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

  • The Sedition Act was passed to amend the Espionage Act