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United Kingdom and Germany blockage
The United Kingdom says that the North Sea is a military area causing them to create a blockade of goods into Germany.Then Germany declares a war zone around great Britain effecting a submarine blockade even merchants vessels were unsafe. -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Death
soon to be heir of the throne of austria hungary and sophie was shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip when he shot those three shots it was the start of WW. -
The Beginning
There was only 250 men in our company and we had it easy for about 3 day then we came to the biggest march of the first division ever made. Day after day we marched hiked like humans marching to hell. We could hear the guns and knew that the big battle was on... -
U.S stays neutral
Germany declares war on both Russia and France and invades Belgium which cause united kingdom to declare war on Germany. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson claims that the U.S. will remain neutral. -
The death of the RMS Lusitania
Germans used a U-boat to torpedoed the RMS Lusitania which carried people, weapons,and goods across the Atlantic ocean to great Britain including 1,198 people died and 128 were Americans. -
Wounded soldier
We went over the hill and kept going till i was wounded in my left hip it was the first time i tasted cold steel i laid there next to major Roosevelt the son of the ex president wounded. They carried me off the field to the first aid station then i was put on an ambulance, and took to the field hospital, and then i was carried to a train that was crowded with wounded. -
The Red Baron
only a few soldiers made it to the end of the war due to fighter pilots who volunteered to fly a airplane and knew that they were going to get shot down eventually. Baron Manfred Von Richthofen flew a red blazing airplane and shot down other planes. He also was known as the "Red Baron" defied the odds and became a legend in the air. -
The battle of Somme
The british used a new offensive against Germany It was tanks they had like 40 of them and they were to slow to hold there position because German counter attacks. They kept having mechanical breakdown and however commander Douglas Haig saw the tanks and ordered the war department to make hundreds more. -
Zimmerman Telegram
Germany sends a Zimmermann Telegram to mexico and the British got a hold of it and decoded the message and the contents was leaked to the U.S and brought the united states into WW1. -
Russian Revolution
Russia had two revolutions the revolution in February overthrown the Russian monarchy and established a Provisional Government.Then in October the second revolution they put Bolsheviks as the leader of Russia causing the world first communist country. -
Theodore Kohls
Hundred and fifty Germans raided Theodore Kohls and his company immediately started shooting Germans.They fought for like 30 min then Germans retreated and left 2\3rds of their men dead behind them.Then the Germans gas bombardment us and we immediately put our gas mask on, i in held the gas and i could only whisper. -
Forced to retreat
Once in position we moved to the top of the hill and bullets started flying at us like hail, all around me was dead Americans so we withdrew and waited for a response from the headquarters,once we got orders to move to the top and to go till we were all killed if necessary. -
Fourteen points to peace
U.S president Woodrow Wilson point 1 claims there will be no more secret alliances and since Germany made a announcement of unlimited submarine warfare so Wilson advocated for the open use of the seas then point 3 is open trade between countries and he wants a reduction on the armaments and point 5 address the needs of colonial people.point 6 threw 13 discussed land claims per country. -
The second battle of Marne
The second battle of Marne there was 30,000 killed and wounded the united states started suffering the ugly downside of there victory associated with the battles of the great war. -
The treaty of Versailles
In the palace of Versailles in Paris in the hall of mirrors there was a peace settlement signed between Germany and allied powers.This officially ended WW1, however the treaty were so punitive upon Germany that many believe the versailles treaty laid the groundwork for the rise of the Nazi in Germany and the beginning of WW2.
