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Germany in World War I

By CChaykin
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    World War I

  • Beginning of World War I

  • Germany declares war on Russia

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Germany invades Belgium

  • Britain declares war on Germany

  • Germany occupies Brussels

  • Japan declares war on Germany

  • Turkey joins the Central Powers

  • The UK begins the naval blockade of Germany

  • first German air raid on Britain

  • First German zeppelin air raid on England

  • Germany declares a submarine blockade of Great Britain

  • Austro-German offensive begins into Russian Poland

  • Germans capture Warsaw

  • Germans stop sinking ships without giving warning first

  • The Germans end their offensive against the Russians having forced Russia out of much of Poland

  • he Battle of Verdun begins

  • Germany suspends U-boat attacks

  • Germany resumes U-boat attacks under search and destroy rules

  • The First German airplane air-raid is conducted on Britain

  • Germany issues peace note suggesting a compromise peace

  • German attack on Verdun ends

  • German leaders decide to launch unrestricted U-boat warfare

  • Germany announces that it will resume unrestricted U-boat warfare

  • The German submarine campaign exacts its heaviest damage of war

  • German-Russian armistice is signed by the new Russian government, represented by Leon Trotsky.

  • German U-boats appear in US waters for first time

  • The Allies counterattack against German forces, seizing initiative on the Western Front

  • Germany and Austria send peace notes to US President Woodrow Wilson requesting an armistice.

  • Germany ceases unrestricted submarine warfare

  • The German fleet mutinies at Kiel. Trieste falls to the Allies as Austro-Hungary concludes an armistice.

  • Germany begins negotiations for an armistice with the Allies in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne

  • end of World War I