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Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the United States
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four years of mind-numbingly horrific war
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sinking of the British passenger ship, Lusitania, by a German submarine
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Wilson was reelected
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, Wilson felt compelled to ask Congress for a resolution of war against Germany
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300,000 American troops had landed in France
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Americans launched an attack on a German bulge in the lines near Verdun
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Ending of the war