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first meeting of the league of nations  in London

SIGNIFICANCE: gave peace of war

EXPLAIN: an attempt to have peace from war and the war ended

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treaty of Versailles conference opens

SIGNIFICANCE: US congress does not ratify

EXPLAIN: a conference Wilson leads

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Armistice Signed

SIGNIFICANCE: war ends

EXPLAIN: an agreement to end war

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Wilson outlines the 14 points

SIGNIFICANCE: League of nations was created

EXPLAIN: this was an attempt to prevent another great world war

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Russia withdraws from the war

SIGNIFICANCE:gave Germany more time to focus on building power

EXPLAIN:Lenin wanted to pull Russia out of war so they could have more time to focus on building a communist party

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October revolution occurs in Russia

SIGNIFICANCE: new leader= new challenges

EXPLAIN: Bolsheviks under Lenin (communist) gain control of Russia

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US troops land in France

SIGNIFICANCE: it is becoming real, our troops are now in physical  war and it is scary

EXPLINATION: US troops are sent to France to fight Germany

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U.S. Declares war against Germany

SIGNIFICANCE: most important event of WWI it is the day we decided to go to war with Germany  after they attacked our ships

EXPLAIN: President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany

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Russian Revolution

SIGNIFICANCE: another addition to Americas fury towards other nations against us

EXPLAIN: peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II who abdicates

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Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare

SIGNIFICANCE: It was no longer peace of war we were under sttack again

EXPLAIN: They resumed and declared they would sink any ship that was trading with Britain

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Germany calls off unrestricted submarine warfare

SIGNIFICANCE: Germany leaves Americans alone

EXPLAIN: it gives us a little peace in mind that we don't have tow worry about them

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The Lusitania is sunk

SIGNIFICANCE: Americans were on the ship and died

EXPLAIN: Germany sunk a ship with American passengers who were killed in beliefs it carried war weapons

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assassination of Sarajevo

SIGNIFICANCE: this sparked the start of WWI

EXPLAIN: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are shot to death by a Bosnian Serb nationalist

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world war I begins

SIGNIFICANCE: triggered a chain of events

EXPLAIN: when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was assassinated

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Zimmerman note

SIGNIFICANCE: we realized how sneaky they were trying to be and it mad us very mad

EXPLAIN: A diplomatic communication between Germany and Mexico where Mexico was trying to get Mexico to join with them and fight us

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