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The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated sparking the beginning of the first World War.
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Austria-Hungary blames Serbia for the assassination of the Archduke
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When the Germans started using gas they developed gas masks to be able to breathe fine without the gas injuring.
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The Lusitania was an British passenger liner that carried Americans as well. The Lusitania got lost in a thick fog and ended up on the coast of Ireland where it was sank and 128 Americans died
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After Willson was reelected he pledged American neutrality towards World War I. He kept his pledge until many Americans lost their lives to German U-Boats. Even though the Germans made a treaty to warn any boats that we going to be torpedoed, but the Germans broke the treaty.
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was a communication from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the US entering World War I against Germany.
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Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany. On April 6, Congress granted the declaration of war and the United States was at war with Germany
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n Nov. 7, 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government
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the war ended on the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, ends.
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The Treaty of Versailles ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers.