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Kaiser declares “open season” on ships -
Germany uses u boats to sink all ships -
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand -
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip. -
Great War begins -
The trigger for the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. -
Lusitania sank -
Germans sank Lusitania that was a civilian ship carrying americans on board -
Battle of the Somme -
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire. -
Wilson re-elected -
Wilson re-elected -
Zimmerman note intercepted -
Germany tells Mexico to declare war on Germany -
US declares war on Germany -
us declares war on germany -
Selective Service Act
or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. -
Espionage Age passed -
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code but is now found under Title 18, Crime. -
Flu Epidemic –
The 1918 flu pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus -
Fourteen Points speech -
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
Russia pulls out of the war -
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers , that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
Sedition Act passed -
designed to protect america's participation in ww1 -
Germany signs armistice -
Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning
