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assination of archduke franz ferdidnad
Francis Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo
him and his wife was shot dead. -
Allied troops landed in Gallipoli
Gallipoli was one of the Allies great disasters in World War One. Gallipoli was the plan thought up by Winston Churchill to end the war early by creating a new war front that the Central Powers could not. -
The “Lusitania” was sunk by a German U-boat
Walter Schwieger was captain of the U-Boat that sank the Lusitania. -
Italy declared war on Germany and Austria
By late 1917, the Austrians and Italians had fought no fewer than 11 battles along the Isonzo River, with negligible progress and heavy losses on both sides. -
The Germans captured Warsaw from the Russians
After his success in the Battle of Tannenberg, General Hindenburg reassembled an army which he called the Ninth German Army. Its goals were to cut through Poland, capture Warsaw, and to continue into Galicia to fight the Southern Russian Army. -
battle of loos
The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. -
Start of the Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest single battle of World War One. -
Battle of Jutland
The Battle of Jutland took place between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet on the 31st May 1916 in the North Sea, off the mainland of Denmark. -
Peace conference met at Paris
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918 -
Germany asked the Allies for an armistice
The armistice between the Allies and Germany was an agreement that ended the fighting in the First World War.
