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Archduke Ferdinand Assassination
Assassinated by Gavrilo Princip who was only a teenager and from Serbia. He was shot at close range while driving through Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia. This would get the ball rolling for WWI -
Austria- Hungary declares war on Serbia
After the assassination of Archduke Austria declared war on Serbia because the person responsible was from Serbia. This would be the start of WWI. -
Austria invades Russia
Austria invades Russia because Russia had an alliance with Serbia so they were forced to join. -
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
Italy considered how to gain the greatest benefit from participation in the war and ultimately joined the allied powers and declared war on Austria -
Germany begins attack on Verdun
This was the longest battle of the first world war and happend because they wanted to secure victory for Germany on the western front -
Russia signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
Russia signed this because of circumstance. They were too weak to continue to participate in war so they agreed to give up control of countries like Ukraine, Poland and Belarus and a few more. -
United states declares war on Italy
The US declared war on Germany and joined the war for many reasons like the attacks by German submarines, the Zimmerman telegram etc -
American combat troops arrive in france
The US sent troops to France to help fight against Germany and push out the Germans who took them over. -
Russia signs armistice with Germany
Russia signed this in order to withdraw from the war but this would result in Russia losing major Russian territorial holdings. -
Germany begins its final offensive of the war
The German spring offensive created the biggest crisis of the war for the allies. The spring attack was a series of attacks along the western front. Germany decided their only remaining chance was to defeat the allies before the US could ship across the Atlantic and fully deploy its resources. -
Germany signs the Armistice at Compiègne ending World War I
After four long years and millions of lives lost the fighting on the western front came to an end. Fighting did continue elsewhere the fighting between Germany and the allies was the first step to the end. -
British and American forces enter germany
They crossed the border into Rhineland located in Germany to put it under allied forces control. -
United States Senate fails to ratify Treaty of Versailles.
Some senators who opposed the Treaty of Versailles believed the proposed League of Nations would infringe upon U.S. sovereignty and Congress's power to declare war. Following the Senate's defeat of the treaty, Congress formally declared the end of World War I -
united states senate fails to ratify treaty of versailles for the second time
For the second time the US senate fails again and rejects the treaty -
United States signs separate peace treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary.
Its failure to ratify the Versailles Treaty meant that the United States needed to make its own separate peace treaties with the former Central Powers and their successor states.