The End of the War

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    Kaiser Wilhelm ll abdicated
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    the British passenger liner Lusitania was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine.
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    the Germans announced an unrestricted submarine warfare campaign.
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    Wilson made a speech declaring that America would enter the war and restore peace to Europe
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    the united states declared war on germany
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    american troops joined the French and British in the summer of 1918
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    Erich Ludendoriff announced that if Germany was to win the war then the allies had to be defeated on the western front before the arrival of American troops
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    there were strikes and demonstrations in Berlin and other cities protesting about the effects of the war on the populations
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    Lundendorff resigned and the German navy muinied
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    the leaders of both sides held a meeting in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne