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A German submarine sinks the passenger line Lusitania. It was carrying 1,198 people. 128 of them were Americans.
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The longest battle of the war. The Battle of Verdun, is fought toa draw with an estimated one mllion casualties. Between the German and French armies.
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The British employ the first tanks ever used in battle, at Delville Wood. They are useful at breaking through barbed wire and clearing a path for the infintry. But they are still primitive and fail to be a decisive weapon.
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Robert L. Wiley was a college football captain. He was in Camp Douglas, Wisconsin. The company mascot was a dog.
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Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare in European waterways. This act, more than any other, draws the United States into the war. This causes the eventual death of Germany.
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Congress authorizes a declaration of war against Germany. The United States enters World War I. They enter on the side of France and Britain.
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President Wilson asks congress for a declaration of war. This was with imperial Germany. The German government anounced a re-opened Germany policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
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Congress passes the Selective service Act authoriizing the draft. It was critized for destroying democracy at home. While fighting for it abroad, President Wilson claims he sees no other option and signs the bill into law.
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Robert L Wiley was handed a large envelope containing letters his father wrote. The letters were between the summer of 1917 and February of 1919. They were covering the years he served in World War I.
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he served in several capacities. He was running a suply oufit and as commanding officer of a military policy company. He did many significant things during his time.
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Germans sign peace treaty with new Bolshevik government of Russia. It gives Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukraine and Poland. Germany shifted causing problems with the French, British, and Americans.
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Though not on the front lines, Robert L. Wiley wrote eleguently about many scenes. He wrote of devestation in the letters. He wote to his brother, mother, and Gertrude, his sweetheart. He was a very loving person.
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After a visit to Europe, Robert L. Wiley Jr. reconstructed his fathers experiences. He drew on his own readings of history and illistrated the memoir. He did it with then-and-now photographs of war sites.
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The Battle of Cantigny was the fort major American offense of the war. The Americanms fought bravely and went on to larger attacks. It was against German positions.
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An Armistice is signed ending fighting on the Western Front. It was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front.
