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April 25 1898
Spanish American War -
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Boxer Uprising -
May 6 1904
The Panama Canal -
Alliances Formed 1914
Europe- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Britain, France and Russia signed treaties pledging to defend one another. This was done in hopes of promoting peace but instead had the opposite effect because there were other alliances forming. Bismark signed treaties with Italy and Austria-Hungary which was known as The Triple Alliance and Central Powers after the war broke out. -
July 28 1914 War was declared
Austria declared war on Serbia after the assassination of the heir of the Austrian emperor. Germany decided to send the emperor a blank check as a promise to stand by Austria no matter what. -
Feb. 15 1915 Germany declares waters around British Isles a war zone.
Neutral vessels are warned of potential u-boat attacks. President Woodrow Wilson warned Germany that they would be held accountable for loss of American life. -
May 7 1915 The Sinking of The Lusitania
The Lusitania was sunk by Germany off the coast of Ireland without any warnings. 1,198 people were killed of the almost 200 were Americans. -
September 1 1915 The Arabic Pledge
Germany promised not to sink any unarmed liners after sinking of the British liner Arabic -
January 1917
The Zimmerman Telegram was intercepted on it's way from Germany to Mexico by America. In the letter Germany was wanting to join forces with Mexico in case the United States entered the war. -
Feb. 1 1917 The U.S. joined the great war
The U.S. declared war on Germany and joined forces with Britain to win the war after Germany was still using unrestricted submarine warfare to sink unarmed boats. -
US President Woodrow Wilson had written a list of proposed war aims which he called the “Fourteen Points."
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Treaty of Versailles
forced Germany to concede territories to Belgium (Eupen-Malmédy), Czechoslovakia (the Hultschin district), and Poland (Poznan [German: Posen], West Prussia and Upper Silesia). -
June 28 1919
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were shot and killed by a Bosnian Serb nationalist. Which led to the WW1 outbreak. -
U.S. experienced a stock market crash
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The Dawes Plan of 1929
The dawes and young plan was an attempt to help solve the problem Germany had with their expenses because the value of german currency collapsed the battle over reparations reached an impasse. Considering the inflation and hyperinflation that was going on in Germany after the war they were in no position to pay off over $31 billion. -
The Great Depression
Countries all around the world fell into an economic depression. -
WW1 casualties
20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. The total number of deaths wasa 9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians. The Entente Powers lost about 5.7 million soldiers and the Central Powers lost about 4 million. There were many military deaths that weren't caused by combat or in the field. Many actually died of disease, the Spanish flu, and famine.
