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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated. They were riding around in an open car with surprisingly not much security when Garvilo opened fire on there car. Garvio tried to kill himself as soon as he did it but he was stopped by a bystander and later taken to prison. The assassins motives were consistent with the movement that alter became know as young Bosnia. The assassination led directly to world war one. -
Germany Invades Belgium
Germany invades Belgium beginning World War One.The Germany invasion of Belgium was a military campaign which began on August 4.1914. The Germany invasion planned for France to call an attack through Belgium instead of planning the attack through the heavily defended Franco-German boarder.Germans pour into Belgium expecting to quickly pass through the country in order to invade France. -
Horror Of Trenches, Edward W. Glendinning
Edward W. Glendinning is a veteran of World War one.He remembers coming out of the trenches. He says it was like seeing a flock of sheep in the middle of the field. He remembers seeing the men crying and crying out for water. He said the men laying on the ground plucked at there legs as they walked through them begging them for water. He was prepared to give a guy a drink but he was forced to move on by his comrades. He says in the years that have passed the mans pleading haunts him. -
Christmas Truce On the Western Front
On December 25th, 1914 a Christmas Truce was arranged. They arranged to cease fire on Christmas day. As soon as it was light outside German soldiers came from there trenches and approached the allied lines calling out Merry Christmas. At first allied soldiers were confused and knew it must have been a trick. The allies soon realized that they were not armed and began to come out from there trenches. They shook hands and exchanged presents of cigarettes, plum puddings and sang carols. -
Veteran recalls encounter w/ German Sniper
William J. Lake , born October 31 1895 in Missouri. He remembers bullets zipping around him all the time, he said you never know when you were going to get hit, but he was lucky. He was setting on a bank with another guy and the other guy was shot by a sniper, he says they were no more than two feet apart. The other guy died right next to him. He then watched the sniper get shot and killed and falling out of the tree he was posted in. -
Germans Fire
The Germans fired shells filled with chlorine gas at allied lines. It was the first time that large amounts of gas are used in battle and the result was the near collapse of French lines.The Germans targeted four miles of the front with the wind- blown poison and decimated two divisions of French troops. However, they failed to take full advantage and allies still held most of there positions. -
German Shelling, John Palmer
John Palmer was a veteran from World War One. He was hit during a German shelling. He remembers a friend trying to help him but he told him to go away and that he had enough. He eventually found himself sinking down into the mud, he said he was not scared of the mud anymore it seemed like a protective blanket.He thought that he passed away. He remembers waking up on the stretcher -
Sinking Of The Lustiania
The Lusitania was a 22,000 ton, 750 feet long ship. The Lusitania left New York Harbor for liver-pool on May 1st, 1915. On this journey the ship carried 1,257 passengers, 128 of them being American. Most of the passengers were aware of the risk they were taking by going on the journey. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German u-boat u-20 and sank within twenty minutes. The attack killed 1,198 passengers. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign office. It was from the German Foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman. It proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. It was published on newspapers all over. -
Arthur Fiala/ Encounters With French Civilians
He says he remembers seeing the French civilians for the first time. The first thing he noticed was that the women were wearing wooden shoes. The women were also carrying two pales of milk using a stick rested on there shoulders. He remembers people working all day and only going home with a log of wood. Arthur did not speak any English but says he got along with the French civilians really well. -
Selective Service Act
The selective service act authorized the United States federal government to have a national army prepared for World War one in conscription. The act required all men in the United States between ages twenty one and thirty years old to sign up for military service.
Congress passed the selective service act. Within a few months ten million mean across the country were registered in the military draft. -
Germany and Russia Peace
The Germans signed a peace treaty. They signed it with the new Bolshevik government of Russia. The terms of the treaty gave Germany huge tracts of land. It was to end Russia's role in World War One. -
Grover Carter Journal
On April second 1918, Grover Carter wrote in his journal that he was becomming very ill. He wakes up every morning with a constant cough. He later dies from the daily cough. They said he most likely had phemonia. -
The Battle of Cantigny
The battle of Cantigny was the first major American offensive of the war. The Americans fight bravely and soon go on to larger attacks against German attacks. The attack was made by Americas first division. It was the first American attack. -
Armistice Day
On armistice day there was an armistice signed. The armistice was signed between the allies of World War One and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western front of World War One. The armistice took effect at eleven in the morning.
