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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 192. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. -
could serve the world best by concentrating on reforms at home and setting an example of peace and democracy. -
The First Battle of the Marne or known in France as the Miracle on the Marne was a battle of the First World War fought from 5 to 12 September 1914. -
The RMS Lusitania was a British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. -
The Battle of Verdun was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. -
agreement by the German government during World War I to stop the indiscriminate sinking of nonmilitary ships. -
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire. -
The 1916 United States presidential election was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916. Incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeated former associate justice of the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate. -
On January 17, 1917 British signals intelligence intercepted and decrypted a coded German telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann that was intended for Germany's ambassador to Mexico. -
a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning. -
Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 was the primary motivation behind Wilson's decision to lead the United States into World War I. -
authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. -
The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law enacted on June 15, 1917, shortly after the United States entered World War I. -
The first American Expeditionary Forces' (AEF) contingent landed in France in late June 1917 at Saint-Nazaire. -
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
The pandemic occurred in three waves. The first apparently originated in early March 1918, during World War I. -
The Bolsheviks signed a peace treaty with Germany on March 3, 1918, formally pulling Russia out of World War I and ceding Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, the Baltic provinces, Finland, and other neighboring provinces to the Germans. -
Passed by a Federalist-controlled Congress on July 14, the Sedition Act of 1798 was part of a series of measures, commonly known as the Alien and Sedition Acts, ostensibly designed to deal with the threats involved in the “quasi-war” with France. -
The Meuse–Argonne offensive was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. -
On November 11, 1918 an armistice was signed between the Germans and the Allies, ending World War I. -
The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I.