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(EU) Shooting of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
Archduke of Austria was assassinated and him being shot was the spark of the war and it became a big thing because countries were allied to the countries going into war -
(EU) War breaks out between Germany and France
After invading Belgium before they declare war on France -
(EU) Britain also wants a piece of Germany and declares war
Declares War because of Alliance with France. -
(US) Policy of neutrality is declared by the US president
“Impartial in thought as well as in action." -
(EU) First Battle of Ypres!
Attempting to outflank each other, Allied and German troops were unable to win a decisive victory, leading to the onset of trench warfare. -
(EU/US) The sinking of the Lusitania! Shot by the Germans!
German U-Boat shot the Lusitania, 128 US citizens were killed! Many US citizens want to go to war. -
(US) Woodrow Wilson reelected for Presidency!
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman, lawyer, and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 -
Zimmerman Note!
The German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America. -
Wilson is asking congress for declaration of war!
On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany. -
(US)First military draft
The U.S. Congress authorizes the Selective Service Act, initiating the first military draft since the Civil War. -
(US/EU) Spanish Influenza
The 1918 influenza pandemic (January 1918 – December 1920; colloquially known as Spanish flu) was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.[1] It infected 500 million people around the world,[2] including people on remote Pacific islands and in the Arctic. Probably 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million (three to five percent of Earth's population at the time) died -
(US) Armistice!
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany.
