https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49 Please DO NOT WRITE ON THIS. IT IS A CLASS COPY. en-us 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC 2020-12-01 19:23:57 UTC hello@padlet.com amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051311 Serbian Nationalists  
Assassinate Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051311 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051318 Austria - Hungary declares war against Serbia]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051318 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051319 Woodrow Wilson gives a Speech declaring the U.S neutral "in fact and in name"]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051319 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051320 Germany answered the British blockade by announcing its own blockade where it warned ships that tried to enter the war zone risked being sunk by the German submarines ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051320 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051323 The Lusitania Crisis happened, and it was one of the first major crisis that challenged US neutrality. Many of the passengers on the ship drowned, and this also included 128 Americans. Because of this Wilson ending up sending Germany a warning message that the country would be held to "strict accountability" if this continued. The secretary, William Jennings Bryan, then ended up resigning from president's cabinet. ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051323 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051325 There were two additional Americans would lost their lives because of a German submarine attack that happened on another passenger ship. Wilson's note was successful upon the German government because they would make sure that there weren't any unarmed passenger ships that would be sunken, without giving the passengers time to go into lifeboats. ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051325 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051326 There was a German torpedo that hit an unarmed merchant ship known to be the Sussex. This injured some American passengers and Wilson ended up threatening to cut off the US diplomatic relations with Germany. Germany ended up backing down because this was preparation to war, but Germany actually remained true to its word. ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051326 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051327 In early 1914, the U.S. had been in a business recession, but rebounded due to their shipping of war supplies to the British and French during the war, and they prospered because of it. With WW1, England became a bigger market for American goods and loans; Wilson lifted the ban on private bank loans to allies, so companies could lend money to Allies to tie American finance to the victory of the British. ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051327 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051329 Wilson had more of a struggle here since he didn't have the split of the conservative and progressive parties to give him a better chance of winning this time around, ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051329 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051330 The text of the infamous Zimmermann Telegram, which was a message from a German secretary being sent to a German ambassador in Mexico suggesting an alliance between Mexico and Germany, was put on newspapers throughout America. ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051330 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051331 Germans stationed along the Western front in France began to retreat to the Siegfried line, which shortened the area of the Front quite a bit. ]]> 2020-11-30 19:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051331 amafel21 https://padlet.com/amafel21/53mpzwmyqrnrcm49/wish/973051334
U.S. Congress declares war on Germany 

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