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President Woodrow Wilson
Inaugurated on march 4 1913 he would lead us through world war one -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Murdered by Bosnian serb nationalist during visit to Bosnia the kick off to the great war -
American neutrality
As world war one begins Wilson claims neutrality -
The battle of marne
Fighting lasting for eight days from the 4th to 12th of September 1914 -
The sinking of the Lusitania
761 people survived but 696 personnel and 128 were American citizens -
Battle of the verdun
Longest battle of the first world war -
The Sussex incident
Torpedoing of a French passenger ship -
Battle of the somme
First battle of the world war -
Zimmerman telegram
Germany tries to make an alliance with mexico -
Passing of espionage act
Draft dodgers were to be imprisoned 20 years or more -
Germany's unrestricted submarine attacks
Germany attacks several passenger ship and cargo ships -
Re election of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson is re elected -
US enters world war 1
America is pushed into the war -
Selective service act
Increases armed forces to the millions -
AEF arrives in France
The AEF arrives in France to help with the war -
Russia pulls out from the war
Russia after taking heavy losses leaves the awr effort -
Spanish flu epidemic
The Spanish flu ravages the front lines -
Fourteen points
Woodrow Wilson made his fourteen points for a league of nations -
Sedition act passed
No american citizen could speak against the war effort -
Battle of argonne forest
Biggest and largest ending battle of the war -
Armistice day
The day the world ends on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, eleventh month 1918 -
Treaty of Versailles
Made the league of nations and forced Germany to pay reparations