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Kasier declares "open season" on ships
Germany uses U boats to sink all ships. -
Assination of Franz Ferdinand
The assassination was known as the spark to the outbreak of WWI. Ferdinand nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to Empire. WAs shot to death with his wife by a Serbian nationalists in Sarajevo, Bosnia. -
Great War begins
All started by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria heir to the throne. -
Lusitania Sank
Germans sank Lusitania that was a civilian ship carrying americans on board. -
Battle of the Somme
First battle of WWI -
Wilson re-elected
President Woodrow Wilson gets re-elected -
Zimmerman Note intercepted
Germany tells Mexico to declare war on United States. -
U.S. Declares War on Gemany
United States declares war on Germany -
Selective Service Act
Authorized the US federal government to raise a national army for service in WWI through conscription. -
Espionage Age passed
WAs a federal law passed. Which made a federal offense to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the constitution, government etc. -
Flu Epidemic
Was an usually dead influenza pandemic. -
Fourteen Points Speech
Was a statement of principles of peace that was to be used for peace negotiations to end WWI. -
Russia pulls out of war
Bolshevik Russia signs the Treaty of Brest Litovsk with Central Powers leaving the allied war effort and granting independence to it's polish and Baltic territories, the Ukraine, and Finland. -
Sedition Act passed
Designed to protect America's Participation in WWI. -
Convoy System
Ships travel in packs for a greater chance of survival. -
Germany signs armistice
Was an armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and in air.
