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On June 28th 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand  and his was wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip. Their deaths would be cause of the great war (World War 1).

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US President Wilson Declares The US in state of neutrality on August 4th 1914.
In the same month Great Britain announces a Naval Blockade, which led the some protests from President Wilson as Britain also seized US ships which were Neutral

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during the following month the American people largely supported US neutrality but still saw Germany as a huge bully
but ethnicities also played a huge role in this German people supported the fatherland while others like Italians were in support for Italy

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On February 4th, 1915 Germany a unrestricted submarine warfare. Meaning that any ships entering the waters near the British Isles had a risk of being sunk by German Submarines.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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On May 7th 1915, A British Passenger Liner the Lusitania was sunken by German Torpedoes over 100 Americans died in the sinking. This Crisis led to president Wilson sending a very strong worded letter to Germany but claiming that the letter was too "war-like" Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan objected and resigned from the Wilson's Cabinet.

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On March 1916 Germany once again attacked an Unarmed merchant ship without prior warning injuring many Americans on the ship. President Wilson threaten with cutting diplomatic relations with Germany.
Germany quickly backed down and created the Sussex Pledge they promise not to sink any merchant or passenger ship without warning.

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In June 1916 President Wilson got congress to pass the National Defense Act of 1916. which increased the size of the Army, Approved the construction of over 50 new battleships.
Although there were activists that claimed that this was one more step to war many Realists believed that increasing US power would protect their status incase of a German victory

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Using the slogan "He kept us out of the War" President Wilson managed to defeat the republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes.

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Prohibited anyone from the Middle East and South East Asia
and asked for literacy test which targeted south and eastern Europeans.

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In March 1st, 1917
British Intelligence intercepted a telegraph from Germany to Mexico, The Telegraph asked for Mexico to invade the US and to ally themselves with Germany and In return they would get back all the lands they lost in the Mexican-American War.

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The US supported and only fought for Democracy they felt that if they allied themselves with individuals like the Autocratic Czar they would be morally wrong this is another reason why they stayed Neutral but that barrier ended once in March 15th,1917 Russian revolutionaries overthrew the Czar Gov. and created a Republic

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In April 1917 A MONTH AFTER BEING SWORN BACK INTO OFFICE
President Wilson went to Congress and asked for them to declare war to Germany

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Seeing the US change its position from Neutral to interested in join the war against them Germany started their Unrestricted Submarine tactics this led to President Wilson cutting diplomatic ties with Germany

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On April 6th 1917.
The US congress approved and officially declared war on Germany with very few pacifists voting against it.

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On May 18th 1917 congress passed a system to randomly pick men between the ages of 21-30
The men on this ages were required to register into the system for possible selection.
The Draft ended calling about 2.5 million men to fight in the war.

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On June 15th 1917, Congressed passed the Espionage Act which restricted freedom of speech, and would give 20 years in prison to whoever tried to led or start an armed rebellion or block the draft.

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It prohibit the public from making disloyal or mean remarks towards the US government

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In 1918 as the war approached its end, the world was stricken by the Spanish Flu, killing over 675,000 Americans the pandemic made it more difficult to transport fresh troops off to the war.
However US troops were still able to drive the Germany front back and by June 1918 they had ended the last Germany offense line.

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On November 18th 1918 as Germany was pushed back to its borders, Germany officially signed an armistice deal and surrendered their arms.

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On January 1919 the allied power gather together to created the Treaty of Versailles although the US aimed to make a deal that would prevent another massive war many of the allies were there just to punish Germany
They made Germany take all the blame, Lose their colonies in Asia and Africa, pay reparations, French occupation of the Rhineland and new Nations created from the lost territories of Germany the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Russia

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In 1919 Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Declared that the US gov. has the right to restrict and limit free speech when a "Clear and present danger " appears
This decision made the Espionage Act constitutional.

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As congress became largely Republican in 1919 president Wilson had to find a way to convince them into approving the Treaty and Joining the League of Nations which was a major No from them as many completely refused and others demanded changes on the Treaty.

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Wilson Collapses and Treaty Rejected Again

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Wilson Collapses and Treaty Rejected Again

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In 1919 Wilson went in a tour around the nation trying to get support in order to approve the Treaty but in one of his speeches on September 25th President Wilson Collapsed and had a Stroke, he never fully recovered. And after Wilson left the office in 1921  congress officially rejected the Treaty of Versailles.

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After months of fighting on August 25th 1921, the US finally signed a peace deal with germany