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Kaiser Wilhelm ll abdicated -
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the British passenger liner Lusitania was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine. -
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the Germans announced an unrestricted submarine warfare campaign. -
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Wilson made a speech declaring that America would enter the war and restore peace to Europe -
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the united states declared war on germany -
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american troops joined the French and British in the summer of 1918 -
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Erich Ludendoriff announced that if Germany was to win the war then the allies had to be defeated on the western front before the arrival of American troops -
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there were strikes and demonstrations in Berlin and other cities protesting about the effects of the war on the populations -
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Lundendorff resigned and the German navy muinied -
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the leaders of both sides held a meeting in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne