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FerdiFran Assassin
Achduke Ferdinand Francis was shot and asassinated alongside his wife by Gavrilo Princip. This is the event widely known as the event that has sparked the World War I because it set off a chain of events including several nations blaming others for the event that took place and thus a declaration of war. -
Austria Hungary for war
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia under the impression that Serbia encouraged the assassination by their Serbian nationalist. Hence, they wanted to invade the country of Serbia. -
Germany is Russian for war
Four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. With that declaration, the tenuous peace between Europe’s great powers was shattered: Germany warned Russia that to continue to full mobilization against Austria-Hungary would mean war with Germany. -
Bulgarmistice
The government of Bulgaria issued an official statement announcing it had sent a delegation to seek a ceasefire with the Allied powers that would end Bulgaria’s participation in World War I. They formally exited the war having lost 90,000 soldiers. -
Lost at Lemberg
Battle at Lemberg was a series of battles between the Russians and the Austro-Hungarians in Galicia at the start of the First World War and lasted from August 23rd to September 12th. The Austrians retreated, therefore losing. -
Led Zeppelins
On this night, Germans in large zeppelins flew over London and dropped 90 incendiary bombs and 30 grenades. Germany had hoped this attack would spark fear in Britain and force them out of war. The attack killed 22 civilians, including six children. Over the course of the war, German zeppelins staged more than 50 attacks on Britain and killed nearly 700 and seriously injured almost 2,000. -
Germans Gassed Up
German soldiers fired more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine against French colonial divisions on the western front. This Germans first used chloride poisonous gas. This was the first and only offensive of the Germans for the year but they made another gas attack on the 24th against a Canadian division. This second attack pushed the Allies further back. -
OFF WITH HER SHIP!
The Lusitania was a British ocean liner ship. Without warning, German submarines torpedoed it off the coast of Ireland and within twenty minutes the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. 1,198 out of 1,959 passengers died and 128 Americans were on board. Germany defends itself by claiming that they fairly warned their attack on all wars ships that entered the war sone around Britain. -
Italian War
Initially, Italy declared itself neutral in the war despite membership in the Triple Alliance with Germany and Hungary-Austria. Over the next few months, with the consideration of assurances sent by the Treaty of London signed in April, Italy was convinced to join the war on terms of which it would gain control over territory on its border with Austria-Hungary stretching from Trentino through the South Tyrol to Trieste. -
Fighting Churches
He became an officer in the Army and served on the Western front until 1916. Throughout the war, Churchill furthered the cause of the newly-developed ‘landships’, or, tanks. Winston Churchill served in Belgium as lieutenant colonel of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. -
Verdun-dun-dun
The Battle of Verdun was the largest and longest battle of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies. The Germans mounted an attack on the French at Verdun designed to 'bleed the French dry'. Although the fighting continued for nine months, the battle was inconclusive. Casualties were enormous on both sides with the Germans losing 430,000 men and the French 540,000. -
Romania Enters the War
By the time war broke out in 1914, Romania was already at odds with Austria-Hungary over the issue of territory especially Transylvania. After Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary, Romanian troops cross the border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire into Transylvania. -
Can You Pretend those Aeroplanes...?
The first German air raid on London took place. The Germans hoped that by making raids on London and the South East, the British Air Force would be forced into protecting the home front rather than attacking the German air force. -
SubWar. Fight Fresh.
To remain on the defensive on the Western Front in 1917, the supreme army command supported the navy’s opinion of using unrestricted U-boat warfare against the British at sea because it could result in a German victory by the fall of 1917. On January 31, 1917, Bethmann Hollweg went before the German government and made the announcement that unrestricted submarine warfare would resume the next day. -
I-De-clare-War
When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States. after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat. On February 22, Congress passed an appropriations bill intended to make the United States ready for war. Over time, Germany sunk four more U.S. merchant ships, and on April 2nd President Wilson appeared before Congress and declared war against Germany. -
The Brest of Litovsk
in the city of Brest-Litovsk, Russia signed a treaty with the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria) ending its participation in World War I. -
Turkish Armistice
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Armist-sign
In the early morning, Germany signed and armistice agreement with the Allies to end the first world war. The war left nine million dead and twenty-one million wounded as well as at least five million civilian deaths from disease, starvation and/or exposure.
