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Sinking the Lusitania
Along with the Zimmerman telegraph, the Lusitania is one of the main reasons the United States finally joined in on the war. After a German U-boat hit the ship in Germany unrestricted submarine warfare. When the Germans attacked this ship they 1195 people and 128 Americans. Along with all the deaths the US was angered because this broke the international prize laws. -
America Joins the war
America was nutural to the war in its previous years but this kept up pressure from Germany to the other countries around it. Plus Germanys unrestricted submarine warfare had sunk a couple American ships by now and they werent stopping. So on April 6th 191the United States declared war on Germany. -
Roy C. Avery Joined Belleview Hospital
In waiting for his units to deploy he joined the Belleview hospital learning how to treat and diagnose patients. In his time working in the hospital he was capibale to treat patients in 4-5 hours. Later going into the war having good vireity of medicle expierence seeing a bunch of diffrent vrieties before he was sent out in the war. -
Roy C. Avery Surgical Unit Deployment
There was no exact date to it but from what it looks like it was late August sometime in September. Roy was ready to go out and it said he was getting a sense of urgencie to go to war. Roy was sent on a ship named the Queen of seas and they headed towards paris. They knew it was going to be a long boat ride but most of the men on the ship were ready to go and help out. -
Roy C. Avery Arrived In Paris
They arrived in Paris somewhere through September. Once they got there it wasn't peaceful when they ported, many people were brawling and he saw many people injured even some he was close to even though the people around him wre injured he managed to stay healthy. Roy was supprised with all the problems that they were dealing with when he arived. -
The Bolshevik Revolution
Between 1914 and 1917, Russia’s poor army lost more than two million soldiers. This became a huge conflict with rioting and escalation into a revolution forcing the last Tsar, Nicholas II out, in early 1917. The new socialist government battled to impose control but did not want to withdraw from the war. By December, Lenin had agreed an armistice with Germany, and in March, the disastrous treaty of Brest-Litovsk ceded enormous chunks of territory to Germany -
Roy C. Avery's Promotion
Once he got settled into parris he recived a promotion into a lutennet. He was unecpecting of it and had unanswered ideas of why he erned it. He lived and lasted but he never made it long enough to figure out why he was prometed in the first place leaving him unsure on that part of his life. -
Roy C. Avery Sent To Front Lines
Roy was sent into the front lines of the war only a couple miles off of no mans land in the closest hospital there was. Roy said this was his most enjoyed moments knowing he was making an impact into what is happening in the front lines. He liked the action he was getting as well with many people coming back to him day by day. -
the Treaty of Breast-Litovsk
The Germans were looking for a peace treaty with some stable countries clost to it and settled for Russia. They eneded up signing the Treaty of BReast-Litovsk and once this happened Russia overruled the monarchy. Once Russia had some power they called for an end to the war after 4 hard years for everyone. -
The Signing Of Armistice
In early 1918, the Allies were falling behind, having been hit hard by four major German attacks. The US troops launched a counterattack in July using tanks, which was very successful and constituted a vital breakthrough, forcing a German retreat. Germany’s allies began to dissolve, with Bulgaria agreeing to an armistice by the end of September, Austria being defeated by late October, and Turkey a few days later. Kaiser Wilhelm II was then forced to step down from his position in Germany.