Mao recruited peasants to join his Red Army. He then trained them in guerrilla warfare. Nationalists attacked the Communists repeatedly but failed to drive them out.
The Congress Part endorsed civil disobedience as the means to achieve independence and Gandhi then launched his campaign of civil disobedience to weaken the British government's authority and economic power over India.
U.S. officials intercepted a telegram written by Germany stating that Germany would hep Mexico reconquer the land it had lost to the U.S. if it would ally itself with Germany. The U.S. then declared war on Germany.