The Great War

Assassination in Sarajevo

Jun 28, 1914

Archduke Francis Ferdiand and his wife Sofia were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip, a 19-year-old Bosnian Serb.

First decleration of War

Jul 28, 1914

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

Germany Decalres War on Russia

Aug 1, 1914

Germany declares war on France

Aug 3, 1914

Great Britain declares war on Germany

Aug 4, 1914

Ottoman Empire joins Germany and Austria-Hungary

Aug 4, 1914

Battle of Tannenberg

Aug 30, 1914

Germany defeted the Russian army

First Battle of the Marne

Sep 6, 1914

Battle of Masurian Lakes

Sep 15, 1914

Germany defeats the Russian Army

Battle of Gallipoli

Apr 25, 1915

Italy switches sides during the war

Apr 26, 1915

italy signs the secret Treaty of London

Lusitania sunk by German U-boats

May 7, 1915

Bugaria joins Germany and Austria-Hungary

Sep 15, 1915

Battle of Jutland

May 31, 1916

Only direct battle between Germany and Great Britain at sea

Zimmerman Telegram

Jan 16, 1917

10,000 women marched through city of Petrograd

Mar 8, 1917

Nicholas II steps down

Mar 15, 1917

US joins the Allies in the war

Apr 6, 1917

Bolshevik forces seize the Winter Palace

Nov 6, 1917

Lenin signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany

Mar 3, 1918

Lenin gives up Poland, Ukraine, Finland, and the Batlic provinces

Czar family killed

Jul 16, 1918

Second Battle of Marne

Jul 18, 1918

General Lundendorff informed German leaders that the war was lost

Sep 29, 1918

William II leaves Germany

Nov 9, 1918

Armistice signed

Nov 11, 1918

Treaty of Versailles signed

Jun 28, 1919