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1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
On June 1914 he drove through the city and Serbian nationalist Gavrillo Princip stepped from the crowd and shot the Archduke and his wife Sophie. -
Sinking of British Liner Lusitania
On May 7,1915, U - Boat sank off the Southern Coast of Ireland. 1198 people lost and 128 were American -
Sinking of British Liner Arabic
Three months after Lusitania, In August 1915, a U - Boat sank and drowned two Americans. -
Sinking of French passenger Liner Sussex
March 1916, Germany torpedied an unarmed French passenger steamer the Sussex. Sunk about 80 passengers, including Americans, were killed or injured. -
Battle of Somme
Began on July 1, 1916 and lasted until mid- November - the British suffered 60,000 casualities the first day alone -
War Industries Board
(WIB) established in 1917, and recognized in 1918 under the leadership of Bernard M. Baruch a prosperous buisinessman. Encourage companies to use mass - production techniques to increase effciency. Urged them to eliminate waste by standardizing products -
Selective Service Act of 1917
to meet the governments need for more figting power, congress passed the act in May1917. The act required men to register with the givernment in order to be randomly selected for military service. -
Espionage and Sedition Acts
In June 1917 Congress passed the Espionge Act and on May 1918 it passed the Sedition Act. Under the Espinage and Sedition Act a person could be fined up to 10,000 dollars and sentenced to 20 years in jail for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the givernments of the war effort. -
National War labor board
to deal with disputes between management and labor, President Wilson established the National War labor board in 1918 -
Second Battle of the Marne
July - August 1918 was the turning point of the war. Allies advance steadily after defeating the Germans -
Austira- Hungary surrenders to the Allies
On November 3, 1918, Austira Hingary surrendered to the allies -
Establishment of the German Republic
On November 9th socialist leaders in the capital, Berlin, established a German reoublic -
Cease - fire and armistice
At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, in the eleventh month of 1918, Germany agreed to cease - fire and signed the armistice, or truce, that ended the war -
Allies
The Triple Entente, consisted of France, Britatin, and Russia. -
Zimmerman Note
a telegram from the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents -
Convoy system
In which heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups -
Food Administration
To help produce and conserve food, Wilson set up the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover. -
Committe on Public Information
To popularize the war, the government set up the nations first propaganda agency (CPI) -
Central Powers
The group of nations - led by Germany, Austria - Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire that oppoed the Allies in World War I. -
Schlieffen Plan
The plan called for a holding action against Russia, combined with a quick drive through Belgium to Paris; after France had fallen, the two German armies would defeat Russia.
