6+World+War+I

media type="file" key="World War 1 Tyler Weston.m4a" World War 1:
 * Austria-Hungry un -happy with the Serbian's response to their ultimatum declared war on Serbia
 * Russia had a treaty with Serbia and started to move in their army
 * Germany Declared war on Russia because they saw this as an act of war
 * France had a treaty with Russia which put them at war with Germany and Austria-Hungry also
 * Britain also allied by a treaty with France also declared war on Germany
 * America issued a policy of absolute neutrality which lasted until 1917 when Germany issued a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare which targeted Americas Commercial liners
 * The war has been called a family affair because some of the major powers at war were inter-relate
 * one of the major sparks of the war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian Terrorist group
 * December 24, 1914 the unofficial Christmas truce along the western front trenches occurred
 * May 7, 1915 German u-boat sinks the Lusitania almost 1200 civilians die including 128 Americans
 * February - December 1916 the Battle of Verdun is fought with an estimated casualty rate of over a million
 * Woodrow Wilson gets re-elected as US president with the campaign slogan "He kept us out of the war"
 * April 6, 1917 President Wilson address congress to declare war with Imperial Germany
 * April-June 1917 French soldiers go on strike due to the failed offensive
 * May 18, 1917 Congress passes the Selective Service Act which allows the Federal Government to draft men for the armed forces
 * October 23, 1917 The Americans fire their first shot in trench warfare
 * 11:00 11/11/1918 The war ends as Germany and the Allies sign an Armistice

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