World War One

By Martinafortunati

  • The spark of Sarajevo

    Gavrilo Princip, a young Bosnian, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • The ultimatum

    Austria-Hungary sends an ultimatum to Serbia.

  • Serbia doesn't reply to the ultimatum and allies with Russia, undermining German borders

  • Both Germany and France proclaim general mobilization. Germany declares war on Russia.

  • Neutrality

    Italy and Belgium proclaims themselves neutrals.

  • The Pact of London

    Italy signs a secret treaty with the Triple Entente. His intent is to obtain lands that had not yet been released in the process of unity.

  • The Russian Revolution

    Russia retires from the war because of the revolution.

  • The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

    The new Bolshevik government of Russia signs a peace treaty with the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. According to the treaty, Soviet Russia defaulted on all of Imperial Russia's commitments to the Allies and eleven nations became independent in Eastern Europe and western Asia.

  • USA declares war on Germany

  • Germany in crisis

    Franco-English resistance precipitates Germany into a military and political crisis.

  • The Paris Peace

    The Paris Peace was the meeting in of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

  • The Treaty of the Trianon

    Here the fate of the Kingdom of Hungary was established following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

  • The Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties. With this treaty Germany undergoes a total defeat. It is limited geographically and is forced to pay all war expenses

  • The Treaty of Saint-Germain

    This treaty established the division of the dissolved Austro-Hungarian Empire and the conditions for the creation of the Austrian republic.

  • The Treaty of Neuilly

    It established the borders of the disputed territories between Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

  • The Treaty of Sèvres

    With this treaty, the Ottoman Empire, already drastically downsized with the 1913 Treaty of London, found itself reduced to a modest state within the limits of the Anatolian peninsula, deprived of all Arab territories and sovereignty over the Bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles.