Germany · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Hopes for President Woodrow Wilson's mediation come to nothing, and, over Bethmann Hollwegs objections, Hindenburg and Ludendorff force the adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare bringing the US into the war in 1917
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