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Competition for Colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific
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Nations Acted on Their Own Interests and Caused Warfare to Breakout
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Prepping Through Militarism Made All Countries Wary and Expecting War
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President Wilson Announces Neutrality in the War
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand is Assassinated in Sarajevo
starts world war one -
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WWI Timeline
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Sinking of the Lusitania/ infuriates americans
germany warns US civilians to stay off british ships. -
Zimmermann note
secret note to Mexico trying to bribe them to attack the US -
Sussex pledge was formed
german agrees to warn ships before attacking -
Lever Food and Fuel Control Act
gave the president the ability to control the amount of food and fuel to be monitored and rationed to the war effort -
Daylight Savings Time
pushing the clock forward an hour to gain more daylight hours to work -
Espionage/ Sedition Act
outlawed any act that encouraged rebellion -
First American Soldiers to Europe
troops in france providing help that the allies didn't wat -
Russian revolution
the change from royals to republicans -
Selective Service Act
the act drafting young men for the war -
Fourteen Points
the nations to "Be made safe for each peace loving nation which, like our own,wishes to live it's own life, determine it's own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealing by the other people's of the world as against force and selfish aggression."- Pres. Wilson -
Armistice
a cease-fire signed by a civilian german republican -
Paris Peace Conference
the talk of a permanent peace treaty -
Treaty of Versailles
peace treaty -
league of nations
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Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia are created