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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated because a nationalistic group called the Black Hand Society did not want him to rule over Bosina. Ferdinand was assassinated when his car took a wrong turn while touring the new land. Ferdinand and his wife were shot by a 19 year old guy named Gavrilo Princip. -
Germany invades France through Belgium
Germany invaded France because France, Russia, and England were allies. The Germans thought that a quick attack on France would put France out of the war, also that Russia and England would not attack since France was out of the war. -
1st Battle of the Marne
The first battle of the Marne was fought between the 6th-12th of September. This battle brought an end the war of movement that had dominated the First World War since the beginning of August. Also during this battle stalemate and trench warfare ensued. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was sunk by the German Submarine U-20. Around 2 pm the two ships converged and Captain Schwieger unleashed one torpedo that hit its target. Within 20 minutes later the great liner had slipped under the water, taking 1,198 people down. -
Battle of the Verdun
This battle was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France. The Battle of Verdun ended as a French tactical victory. -
French passenger vessel Sussex was sunk
Germany helped to keep the U.S. out of the war by eventually promising not to sink any more passenger ships, but then Germany violated that by sinking unarmed French passenger ship Sussex. Again Germany declared and promised not to sink unarmed ships, the promise was called Sussex Pledge. -
Passing of the National Defense Act
The National Defense Act of 1916 provided for an expanded army during peace and wartime, fourfold expansion of the National Guard, the creation of an Officers' and an Enlisted Reserve Corps, plus the creation of a Reserve Officers' Training Corps in colleges and universities. The President was also given authority, in case of war or national emergency, to mobilize the National Guard for the duration of the emergency. -
Battle of the Somme
Also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 in the Somme department of France, on both banks of the river of the same name. The Battle of the Somme was one of the largest battles of the First World War: by the time fighting had petered out in late autumn -
Publication of the Zimmerman Note
The message came as a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire, Arthur Zimmermann, on January 16, 1917, to the German ambassador in Washington, D.C., Johann von Bernstorff, at the height of World War I. -
Espionage Act passed
This act prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support America's enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment. In 1919, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Schenck v. United States. -
U.S. troops first land in France
The first 14,000 United States infantry troops land in France at the port of Saint Nazaire to join the Allies—Britain and France—against Germany on the battlefields of World War I. -
Bolsheviks seize power in Russia
The Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd in November 1917, they faced many problems. Not least was the fact that the Bolsheviks only controlled a very small part of Russia – basically the land between Petrograd and Moscow, a rectangular band of territory 30 miles by 400 miles. Outside of this territory, there were many groups that were opposed to the Bolsheviks. Some areas broke away from Russia to become semi-autonomous regions. Even in the land between Moscow and Petrograd, the Bolsheviks were -
Wilson established 14 points program
On 8th January, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson presented his Peace Programme to Congress. Compiled by a group of US foreign policy experts, the programme included fourteen different points. -
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk between Russia and the Central Powers, headed by Germany, marking Russia's exit from World War I. -
Wilson established the National War Labor Board
The National War Labor Board (NWLB) was a federal agency created in April 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson. It was composed of representatives from business and labor, and chaired by Former President William Howard Taft. Its purpose was to arbitrate disputes between workers and employers in order to ensure labor reliability and productivity during the war. It was disbanded after the war in May, 1919. -
Sedition Act passed
An act of the United States Congress signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on May 16, 1918. It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. -
Selective Service Act was passed
An act which was passed by the Congress of the United States on May 18, 1918. It was for men to go to WWI at a young age. -
2nd Battle of the Marne
The last major German Spring Offensive on the Western Front during World War I. The German attack failed when an Allied counterattack led by French and American forces overwhelmed the Germans, inflicting severe casualties. -
Meusse- Argonne Offensive
Also called the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire western front. -
Germany surrenders
Germany still had plenty of troops willing to fight, but they were now mostly old men and boys, many without any military training. They had almost no food and no ammunition, there was no war production left in operation and they were unsupported, without effective leadership and with morale at rock bottom. -
Treaty of Versailles signed
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. Although the armistice signed on 11 November 1918 ended the actual fighting, it took six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to concl
