HIST 221 Chapter reading: Reading America and the Great War
19 Oct 2018
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Archduke franz ferdinand wanted to visit sarajevo on. June 28, 1914 to show it was still the capital of the fragile. Austro-hungarian empire and he was to be the ruler of it soon. Gavrilo princip went there to kill the archduke because he thought that this city was destined to be part of serbia. Woodrow wilson said that the us was now implicated due to the other nations that had entered the war as well. He allowed the us to intervene on the side of the allies - britain, france and russia. By 1915, j. p. morgan and company had become the banker for the allies and the american food and steel were keeping the british war effort going. Millions of americans viewed the choices that the. In 1914, more than 1500 women walked down 5th avenue as a silent protest against the war in europe.
