1914-1918

  • Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain,

  • Germany declares war on France.

  • President Woodrow Wilson says the U.S will not fight yet

  • The Battle of Tannenberg is started

  • The unofficial Christmas truce is declared.

  • The Second Battle of Ypres the battle that the Germans first use poison gas.

  • The Battle of Jutland, the major naval battle of the war,

  • Battle of the Somme, tanks are first introduced

  • The United States declares war on Germany.

  • German pilot Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron), is shot down.