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By sapphiralameche1
  • the trigger

    the trigger

    during an official visit to the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The killings of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and him wife sparked a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I by early August
  • declared

    declared

    President Woodrow Wilson declared that the United States would remain 'impartial in thought as well as in action. '
  • U-boat

    U-boat

    the German submarine U-boat torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans.
  • re-elect

    re-elect

    American voters re-elect President Woodrow Wilson who had campaigned on the slogan, "He kept us out of war."
  • british

    british

    British naval intelligence intercepted and decrypted a telegram sent by German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman to the German Ambassador in Mexico City.
  • passed the declaration

    passed the declaration

    Congress passed the Declaration of War went into war to protect shipping and the freedeom of trade while in international waters
  • landed in france

    landed in france

    The first American troops land in France.
  • The Sedition Act

    The Sedition Act

    The Sedition Act of 1918 curtailed the free speech rights of U.S. citizens during time of war
  • end of the war

    end of the war

    The Allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement with Germany at Compiégne, France
  • signed

    signed

    The Versailles Peace Treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, officially ended World War I.