World War I History
1917 - The first Americans entered combat when units from the U.S. Army's First Division were assigned trenches near Nancy, France.
1918 - Germany ceased its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. The final German torpedo fired during the war sank the small British merchant ship Saint Barcham killing all eight crewmen.
| "We have stood apart, studiously neutral." - President Woodrow Wilson, December 7, 1915 |
