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World War 1
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Germany sends the Zimmerman Telegram
Germany sends the secret Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico in an effort to entice Mexico to join the war. The British intercepted and deciphered the codeded message -
Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
The lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine raises its head again, as Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. It had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries. -
Declaration of War
Two days after the U.S. Senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the decision by a vote of 373 to 50, to send the United States to the First World War. When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States. -
Germans Attack
Germans launch the first of five major offensives to win the war. They did this before the American troops appear in the trenches. -
The Red Baron goes down
Baron Von Richthofen (the "Red Baron") is killed in an air-dog fight. In the skies over Vauz sur Somme, France, he was battling in his plane war. -
The Battle of Gallipoli
British and Australian troops stop the German advance near Amiens. This is also known as the Battle of Gallipoli begins -
The French attack the Germans
The shellings lessen and the French attack. The Second Company comes back to the front 2 days early than expected. ( Novel Fact) -
The attack devastates the Second Company
After the attack only 32 of the original 150 men in the Second Company remain. With the attack it is going to hurt the Germans later on. (Novel Fact) -
Germans escorted out
Germans on the banks of the Marne (near Paris) are stopped by American forces at Chateu Thierry. French retire from River Ailette, drive Germans east of Sempigny, and recover Thillois (west of Reims). -
Paul gets to go home
Paul lies to his mother (who has caner) that the war isn't bad and everything is going well. After the visit Paul goes to his friends Kemrich's house to inform his mother of his death. (Novel fact) -
The Russian Prisoners
When Paul returns from his leave, he notices that the German have capture Russian prisoners. With the fact of not eating or living well Paul feels very sad for them. (Novel Fact) -
Traveling from Front to Front
German troops being shipped from the Eastern to the Western Front begin to desert in large numbers from their transport trains. The battle of the Western Front is just about to end, but they need reinforcements so they call the Eastern Front -
Paul gets a soldier
While crawling into "No Man's Land" to gather information, Paul gets lost and knows that an attack is about to happen so he hides in a shell. While hidden in the shell a soldier goes in there with Paul and so Paul stabs him, his first hand-to-hand combat kill. (Novel Fact) -
The Unit stays together
Paul, Tjaden, Muller, Kroop, Detering, and Kat have to guard a supply dump in an abandoned village. They live a "charmed life" and when enemies see the smoke they bomb the house. On the way to moving to another supply dump, everybody starts to get sick and they have to go to the hospital where Kroop wounded his knee. (Novel Fact) -
Trusting in each other
The German army is still weaking slowly and slowly. Paul and his comrades know that they must trust in each other more than ever. (Novel Fact) -
Detering starts to change
Detering sees a cherry tree blossoming which reminded him of his orchard, so he takes a branch and trys to go home, but he is captured. Detering was starting to hallucinate and he is the first to depart from the group. (Novel Fact) -
The final stages of the War
After inhailing poison gas, Paul is given 14 days to recuperate. He has no idea what to do (no goals, or where to go). He fears that his generation will yield no survivors. Paul is finally killed on a quiet and peaceful day. (Novel Fact) -
The Unit is breaking apart
Muller gets shot in the abdomen, Leer bleeds to death from a thigh wound, and Kat is bleeding while bringing food. Paul tries to carry him to safety only to find out he was hit in the head with a fragement of an exploding shell (Novel Fact) -
Germans don't want to fight
Sailors in the German High Seas Fleet steadfastly refuse to obey an order from the German Admiralty to go to sea to launch one final attack on the mighty British navy. This echoed the frustrated, and the despondent mood of many on the side of the Central Powers during the last days of World War I. -
German Emperor flees
The German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II abicates and flees Germany. Wilhelm was himself deeply reluctant to make such a sacrifice, instead expressing a preference to lead his armies back into Germany from the Western Front.
