Timeline: William Snowden Sims

Jan 1, 1911

Sims was promoted Captain

Jun 1, 1914

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia

An escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leading by mid-August to the outbreak of World War I, which pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan.

Jul 20, 1914

Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian frontier

Jul 28, 1914

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

Nov 22, 1914

Trenches are established along the entire Western Front.

May 31, 1915

The first Zeppelin raid on London

kills seven and injures 35. British morale is shaken as Germany shows they can attack the capital at will.

Feb 21, 1916

The Battle of Verdun

the longest battle of World War I. Was one of the bloodiest.

Aug 28, 1916

Italy declares war on Germany

Apr 6, 1917

US declares war on Germany.

Troops begin to mobilise immediately

Jun 25, 1917

First US troops arrive in France.

Dec 2, 1917

held a variety of naval intelligence and command positions.

May 3, 1918

German and Russia peace

The Germans sign a peace treaty with the new Bolshevik government of Russia. The terms of the treaty give Germany huge tracts of land that had been the Ukraine and Poland, and peace on the Eastern Front allows Germany to shift soldiers to the Western Front, causing serious problems for the French, British, and Americans.

Dec 2, 1919

after the war ended in Allied victory,

Sims publicly attacked tAmerican naval. He charged the failures had cost the Allies 2,500,000 tons of supplies,He estimated the delay had raised the cost of the war to the Allies by $15 billion. That it led to 500,000 lives being taken.