Verdun was the key point to taking the western front and possibly winning the war.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/verdun.htm
These two empires made peace with their allies.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/versailles434-440.htm
Cessation of hostilities as a prelude to peace negotiations. Talking about Germany and its Allies to end the war.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/armistice.htm
Woodrow wilson VS. Charles Hughs
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/wilsonadministration.htm
Warren G. Harding VS James M. Cox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1920
The Ottoman Empire came to an end, as a regime under an imperial monarchy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
With the Soviet takeover of power in Russia, Lenin was quick to deliver this agreement.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/decreeonpeace.htm
Declared war with Serbia.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/declarationsofwar.htm
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette is notable for the introduction of tanks. The attack was launched across a 12 km front from Rawlinson's Fourth Army salient.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/flers.htm
Sometimes considered an inadvisable and perhaps unnecessary target...But the US tries to take it once and failed. But they got it the second time around.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/stmihiel_gallwitz.htm
Declared war with Austira - Hungary.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/declarationsofwar.htm
Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Baron Kato gave a full explanation why Japan went to war with Germany
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/tsingtau_kato.htm
President Woodrow Wilson addressed Congress and made public the U.S. policy of neutrality. During his address he warned U.S. citizens against taking sides in the war for fear of endangering the wider U.S. policy.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/usneutrality.htm
On numerous occiasions battles were assumed without a formal declaration.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/declarationsofwar.htm
Serbias Allies included France and Russia
http://www.dipity.com/brennb/Kaiser-wilhelm-II-of-Germany-come-to-power/
Japan came in on the Allied side about a fortnight after Britain. Japan had been linked with Britain by treaty, possibly drawn up with the idea of keeping at bay a potential threat to Britain's Eastern Empire
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/mostpopularwar_01.htm
Several of these French Military Avaitors have openly violated the neutrality of Belgium
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/germandeclarationofwar_france.htm
Presented by the Germna Ambassador to St. Petersburg.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/germandeclarationofwar_russia.htm
was a United States government agency established to coordinate the purchase of war supplies and mass production of supplies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Industries_Board
Austria declared War on Russia a few days later, followed by a declaration of war on Belgium on 7th August.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/minorpowers_ah.htm
This Battle is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops on the first day of the battle.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/somme.htm
Arrangements were set in place to sign the treaty in Paris. The city was unanimously selected by the Allied powers.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/parispeaceconf_signing.htm
During World War One we were still seeing the nationalistic tide that was begun by Otto von Bismarck and would ultimately end after the Second World War.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/germanyduringww1.htm
One raid caused more than half a million pounds of damage, almost all of it from the one Zeppelin.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/airwar/bombers_zeppelins.htm
Having declared a policy of neutrality at the outset of the war, the Italian government was eventually persuaded to enter the war on the side of the Allies.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/italiandeclaration.htm
It authorized the federal government to raise a national army numbering in the hundreds of thousands with which to fight a modern war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_Act_of_1917
Russia's revolution was on held on this day.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/russian_councilofworkmen1.htm
Sec. 3 - "Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall wilfully make or convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall wilfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, or say or do anything except by way of bona fide and not disloyal advice to an investor... with intent to obstruct the sale by the United States of bonds... or the making of loans by or to the United States, or whoever, when the United States is at war, shall wilfully cause... or incite... insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall wilfully obstruct... the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, and whoever, when the United States is at war, shall wilfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States, or the flag... or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States, or any language intended to bring the form of government... or the Constitution... or the military or naval forces... or the flag... of the United States into contempt, scorn, contumely, or disrepute... or shall wilfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall wilfully... urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things... necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war... and whoever shall wilfully advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support or favour the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both...."
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/espionageact1918.htm
She was in NY being load with meats abd cheeses while also secretly being loaded with munitions for the brits.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/lusitania.htm
Considered uncivilised prior to World War One, the development and use of poison gas was necessitated by the requirement of wartime armies to find new ways of overcoming the stalemate of unexpected trench warfare.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm
Wilson demanded "that unless the Imperial German Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present method of warfare against passenger and freight carrying vessels this Government can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the Government of the German Empire altogether".
http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/sussex.htm
President Woodrow Wilson outlined the case for declaring war upon Germany in a speech to the joint houses of Congress, but a formal declaration of war followed four days later, on April 6.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/usawardeclaration.htm
Conducted by the British Royal Navy. Meant to restrict supplies going up and/or down stream
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/pohl_uboatwar1915.htm
Wilson outlined the United States war aims in a single speech presented to Congress.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/fourteenpoints.htm
The famouse not is from germanys secretery of Foreign Affairs, to her Minister in Mexico, directing him to attempt to unite Mexico and Japan with Germany in war against the United States.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/zimmermann.htm
Jointly launched by U.S. and French forces on the Western Front in front of the Argonne Forest.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/pathoffire.htm
The covenant was originally drafted by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
Submitted on 14 February 1919. Congress refused to accept American membership of the League.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/leagueofnations.htm
Once the Empire lost its final battle they gave up all hope and let the empire fall.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/vittorio_trevelyan.htm
The Kiel Mutiny was set off by secret German Navy plans to launch a final suicide attack upon the British Royal Navy as the war reached the end.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/kielmutiny.htm
The Battle of Cambrai, launched in November 1917, heralded the first time tanks were used in significant force.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/cambrai.htm
Gave the U.S. Government complete control over the coal industry including the production, pricing, sale, shipment, and distribution phases
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Lever_Act_of_1917,_United_States
The United States joined the Allies, helping to turn the tide against the Central Powers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
Comprised the only major attack launched by the German forces on the Western Front .
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/ypres2.htm
with the outcome bringing to an end the war of movement that had dominated the World War I since the beginning of August.
http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/marne1.htm
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Woodrow_Wilson
George Frederick Ernest Albert was the king of the united kingdom and the emperor of India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_V
DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist G.V. Hudson, whose shift-work job gave him leisure time to collect insects, and made him aware of the value of after-hours daylight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
Was an Archeduke of Austria - Este, Austro - Hungarian, and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand
Last German Emperor and King of Prussia ruling both German Empire and The Kingdom of Prussia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor
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