Involvement Timeline

By dylanmyers

  • 6/25/1917

    6/25/1917
    -The first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France at the port of Saint Nazaire. The landing site had been kept secret because of the menace of German submarines.​ -While less than an Army division of Americans had arrived in France by late June 1917, this small installment began the mobilization of several million American men and women. Many French ports were transformed to accommodate the arriving waves of allied support.​ -Germans, Americans, Frecnch​

  • 8/4/1914

    8/4/1914
    -Great Britain declares war on Germany.​ -Germans were the main cause of this event ​
    • Americans were in support of Belgium ​

  • 6/28/1914

    6/28/1914
    • The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand​
    • the key people for this event were people around the area of Franz Ferdinand ​
    • world war 1 began and America was involved for a bit

  • 5/7/1915

    5/7/1915
    • the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania​
    • Brought the USA in the brink of war and angered them as well ​
    • German soldiers were involved in this event ​

  • 11/7/1916

    11/7/1916
    -The 1916 United States presidential election was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916​
    • Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate was involved ​
    • election in the US proving US involvements ​

  • 4/6/1917

    4/6/1917
    -Congress passed the Declaration of War.​ -Since the beginning of that year, 19 U.S. merchant vessels were sunk by German U-boats.​
    • Americans, Germans ​

  • 1/19/1917

    1/19/1917
    A telegraph Alfred Zimmermann of the German Foreign Office dispatched to the German embassies in Mexico City and Washington, D.C. is intercepted by the British. Plans for an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States are outlined in its message. The plan called for Mexico to gain territory that had formerly been part of Mexico by pushing into the American Southwest in exchange for Germany's tactical support.

  • 5/16/1918

    5/16/1918
    On May 16, 1918, the Espionage Act of 1917 was extended by the Sedition Act of 1918. A wider variety of offenses were encompassed under the Sedition Act, including speech and expression of opinions that undermined the government or the war effort or hampered the selling of government bonds.

  • 11/11/1918

    11/11/1918
    Armistice on the Western Front​. Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. Germans were conquering certain places at this point​.

  • 6/28/1919

    6/28/1919
    -The Versailles Peace Treaty, signed on June 28, 1919, officially ended World War I. ​ -Americans made peace with certain countries when the war ended. -Germans, Americans,French ​