Axademic decathlon WWI Timeline

By Ashurbanipal

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo

  • Austria-Hungary delivers an ultimatum to Serbia

  • Serbia respons to ultimatum and mobilizes

  • Russia declares a Period Preparatory to War

  • Audtria-Hungry Declares war on Serbia

  • Russia and Austria-Hungry order general mobilization

  • France orders general mobilization

  • Germany mobilizes and declares war on Russia

  • Italy declares neutrality

  • Germany and the Ottoman Empire sign a scret alliance treaty

  • Germany declares war on France

  • Britain orders general mobilization

  • Germany declares war on Belgium

  • Germany invades Belgium

  • Britain declares war on Germany

  • US President Woodrow Willson declares the US position of neutrality

  • Austria-Hungry declares war on Russis

  • Serbia declares war on Germany

  • France dclares was on Austria-Hungry

  • Austria-Hungry invades Serbia

  • Britain declares war on Austria-Hungry

  • Russisn troops invade East Prussia

  • The German Army occupies Brussels

  • Auatria-Hungry declares war on Belgium

  • Japan declares war on Germany

  • Austria-Hungry invades Russian Poland (Galicia)

  • The Russians are defeated at the Battle of Tannenberg- Germany's greatest success on the Eastern Front

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    The First Battle of Marne halts the German advance, resulting in stalmate and trench warfare

  • The "Race to the Sea" on the Westerm Fromt begins

  • Austro-German forces attack western Poland

  • Austrio-Hungarian attempt at invading Serbia fails

  • Belgium troops abandon Antwerp tp the Germans

  • The 1st Battle of Ypres begins

  • Turkey enters the war on the side of Austria-Hungry and Germany

  • Russia declres war on the Ottoman Empire

  • Austria-Hungry invades Serbia

  • THe 1st Battle of Ypres ends the Race to the Sea

  • The French and British launch a general offensive all along the Western Front

  • 1st German air rain on Britian begins.

  • Japan issues 21 demands on China, an ultimatum that sought Japan's regional ascendancy over China

  • 1st German zeppelin attack on Britain

  • 1st German use of pioson gas at Bolimow on the Eastern Front

  • German u-boats attack on Allied shipping;Germany declares a blockade of Britain

  • Russia suffers heavy losses at the 2nd battle of Masurin Lakes.

  • The 1st British passenger liner is sunk by German U-boats

  • The British-French naval task force fails to force open the Dardanelles

  • The 2nd Battle of Ypres begin; 1st German use of pioson gas on the Western Front

  • British forces land in Gallipoli

  • France, Russia, Italy, and Britain conclude secret Treaty of London

  • A German U-boat sinks the British Lusitania, creating a US-German diplomatic crisis

  • Italy declares war on Austria-Hungry

  • German forces occupy Warsaw

  • Biritish forces land in Gallipoli

  • Tsar Nicholas II takes command of the Russian armies

  • The Battle of Loos, a amjor British offensive, begins

  • The Battle of Champagne, a major French offensive, begins

  • Austro-Hungarian and German forces invade Serbia, expelling the Serbian army from the country

  • Bulgaria and Serbia declare war on each other

  • Britain declares war on Bulgaria

  • Sir Douglas Haig replaces Sir John French as commander of the British Expeditionary Force

  • The British complete the evacuation of Gallipoli, ending in an Ottoman victory

  • Conscription is introduced in Britain

  • Ther Germans open an offensive at Verdun

  • The Easter Rebellion starts in Ireland

  • Germany renounces its submarine policy

  • Beginning of Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire

  • Britain and France conclude the Sykes-Picot Agreement

    A scret Agreement that defined proposed areas of control for the 2 nations in the middle east, should the defeat the Ottoman Empire.

  • Battle of Hutland, the biggest naval battle in history

  • Russian Brusilov Offensive in Carpathia nearly knocks Austria-Hungary out of the war

  • The British and French begin the Battle of the Somme

  • Romania declares war on Austria-Hungry

  • Italy declares war on Germany

  • Hindenburg replaces Falkenhayn as chief of the German General Staff

  • Germany suspends submarine assaults

  • Bulgaria declares war on Romania

  • Tanks are introduced for the 1st time on the Somme battlefield by the British

  • Germany resumes U-boat attacks

  • THe French launch a counter-offensive at Verdun

  • US President Woodrow Wilson secures re-election

  • End of Battle of the Somme

  • Franze Josef, Emporeror of Austria and King of Hungry, dies

  • 1st German airplane air-raid on Birtain

  • David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Henry Asquith as Biritish Prime Minister

  • Joseph Joffre is replaced by Robert Nivelle as commander of Frenforces on the Western Front

  • Germany issues a peace note suqqesting a compromise peace

  • Germany resues inresticted submarine warfare

  • The US ends diplomatice relations with Germany

  • German forces begin a withdrawl to strong positions on the Hindenburg Line

  • The Zimmerman Telegram is made public

    It was a propsal of an alliance with Mexico against the US

  • THe Russian Revalution begins in Petrograd

  • Tsar Nicholoas II abdicates

  • The US declares war on Germany

  • Canadian success at the Battle of Viny Ridge

  • Lenin arrives in Russia

  • Chemin des Dames (Neville Offensice) starts

  • Nivelle is replaced by Henri-Phillippe Petain as French Commander in Cheif

  • The US Esoianage Act is passed

  • 1st American troops land in France

  • Greece enters the war on the side of the Allies

  • The Russian offensive begins

  • Biritish Army officer TE Lawarence and Arbs capture Aquaba

  • 3rd Battles of Ypres (Passchendaele) begins

  • Kerensky's offensive fails, marking the last Russian initiative of the war

  • The Battle of Passchendaele

  • The Bolcheniks seize power in Petrograd and announce Russia's intention to leave the war

  • THe US declrea war on Austria-Hungry

  • Russia opens separate peace negotiotions with Germany (Brest-Litovsk)

  • US President Woodrow Wilson makes his "14 Pionts" speech to Congress

  • Russians accept German peace terms at Brest-Litovsk

  • Germany launches spring offensives

  • German U-boats appear in US waters for the 1st time

  • The Ffinal phase of the great German spring push, 2nd battle if Marne

  • Former Tsar Nicholas II, his whife, and children are murdered by the Bolsheviks

  • THe Allies conterattack against German forces, seizing initiative

  • Allied intervention begins at Vladinvostok

  • THe British launch Amiens offensive; the "Black Day" of the Germany Army

  • ther Germans begin withdrawl to the Hindenburg LIne

  • Bulgaria aggrees to an armistice

  • Turkey concludes ar armistice with the Allies

  • The German fleet mutinies at Kiel

  • Trieste falls to the Allies; Austria-Hungry conludes an armistice

  • Kaiser Wikhelm II abdicates and flees to Holland the following day

  • Germany negotiates an armistice with the Allies in erinnand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne.

    Fighting ceases at 11 am

  • Communist revolt in Berlin

  • Start of peace negotioations in Paris

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    Treaty of Versailles drafted and signed