Hello, My name is Samantha M from Mr. Sals 9th period  20th Century History Class. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States and the leading supporter of the League of Nations. Thomas Woodrow led the country through some of the darkest days during world war I. Wilson began teaching Bryn Mar college in 1885 before going to Wesleyan University in 1888.  At weleyan, he couched the winning football team.  1890 he got a job at Princton and in 1902 he was appointed president of Princeton.  In 1910 Wilson was elected governor of New Jersey, in  an astonishingly short time he pushed through major states that sweaped him into the white house in 1912. Wilson’s first term as President he had passed significant tariff legislation and banking reform. His world was shattered two years in his term, but when his wifed died and world war I broke out in the Europe. The United States entered the war on  April 6, 1917 during  Wilsons second term.  Wilson was the leader at the 1918 Peace Conference that ended the war but he was pushed to hard and had a severe stroke  in 1919. Than Warren G. Harding was elected President in a Republican landslide in 1920. Later in that year, Wilson got awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and retired with his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, witch he had married her in 1915. They lived quietly in Washington, D.C, until he died three years later.

Next id like to talk about Archduke Francis Ferdinand (1863-1914)

Francis Ferdinand was born in Graz Austria, the oldest son of Archduke Charles Louis  and his nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph.when Francis Ferdinand was 12 years old, he inherited the title archduke of AustriaEste. In 1899 he became heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire,after his father and cousin, Crown Prince Rudolph, died. But, since Francis Ferdinand’s health was poor, people thought that the throne would go to his younger brother Otto. It made Francis Ferdinand anger, but there were other conflicts as well. Francis Ferdinand fell deeply in love with Countess Sophie Chotek, duchess of Hohenberg. Sophie Chotek was a much lower social rank than Francis Ferdinand. Francis Ferdinand was expected to married to a equal rank, like the queen or princess of a great empire. After strife he was allowed to marry Sophie but he had to relinquished all claims to the throne for his children meaning Sophie and their children wouldn’t have any rights by Francis Ferdinand’s status took place in 1900. He tried to influence  affairs, but he was over powered by Francis Joseph, witch remained  emperor, from 1906 and on, he did exert better influence on military issues. On 1913 he became general of the army, but the time he had for office was cut short, in June 1914 him and his wife assassinated at Sarajevo by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip.  A month later World War I had began, when Austria declared war against the Serbia.

Next would be Some Promise.

1917 of January the war in Europe was a tragic standoff, Britain knew Europe would be saved if they had the United States to join there side of the war. But thats when President Wilson was unshakable and effort to mediate peace, but then he had a stroke, letting the United States into World War I then into a quiet British office. One countless messages intercepted and read by the crack team of British decoders, the Zimmerman telegram was a top-secret message to the President of Mexico city, inviting Mexico to join Germany and Japan to invade the United States.  Recovery of her lost American  territories is Mexico’s reward and Germany’s goals are to keep America fully occupied on her side of the Atlantic.