World War 1

By wolfygurl
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    Trench warfare begins

    Military tactics before World War I had failed to keep pace with advances in technology. These advances allowed for impressive defence systems, which out-of-date military tactics could not break through for most of the war.

  • Assissnation of Archduke Franz Fernidad

    The assassins, the key members of the clandestine tunnel, and the key Serbian military conspirators who were still alive were arrested, tried, convicted and punished. Those who were arrested in Bosnia were tried in Sarajevo in October 1914.

  • World War 1 starts

  • Germany declares war on France and Belguim

    Due to the fact that Russia went to moblize against Austria-Hungry, they were declared war against Germany. By declaring war, Russia looked towards France because they were an alliance with Russia. Thus getting France and Belguim into the war with Germany.

  • United Kingdom declares war on Germany

    After Germany invaded Belguim, they did this to outflank France. Britain protests the violation of Belgian neutrality, guaranteed by a treaty; German Chancellor replies that the treaty is just a chiffon de papier (a scrap of paper).

  • Battle of Stalluponen

    The Battle of Stallupönen, fought between Russian and German armies on August 17, 1914, was the opening battle of World War I on the Eastern Front. It was a minor German success, but did little to upset the Russian timetable.

  • Japan declares war on Germany

    In February 1915, marines from Imperial Japanese Navy ships based in Singapore helped suppress a mutiny by Indian troops against the British government. With Japan's European allies heavily involved in the war in Europe, Japan sought further to consolidate its position in China by presenting the Twenty-One Demands to Chinese President Yuan Shikai in January 1915.

  • The unofficial Christmas truce is declared.

    The Christmas truce was a series of widespread, unofficial ceasefires that took place along the Western Front around Christmas 1914, during World War I. Through the week leading up to Christmas, parties of German and British soldiers began to exchange seasonal greetings and songs between their trenches;

  • Germany declares a "war zone" around Great Britain

    The German Empire relied on imports for food and domestic food production (especially fertilizer) and the United Kingdom relied heavily on imports to feed its population, and both required raw materials to supply their war industry; the powers aimed, therefore, to blockade one another. The British had the Royal Navy which was superior in numbers and could operate on most of the world's oceans because of the British Empire, whereas the Imperial German Navy surface fleet was mainly restricted.

  • The Dardanelles Campaign begins.

    Dardanelles Campaign or the Battle of Gallipoli or the Battle of Çanakkale took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, during the First World War. A joint British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and secure a sea route to Russia.

  • The Gallipoli Campaign ends in an Allied defeat and an Ottoman victory

    The campaign was the first major battle undertaken in the war by Australia and New Zealand, and is often considered to mark the birth of national consciousness in both of these countries. Anzac Day, 25 April, remains the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in Australia and New Zealand, surpassing Armistice Day/Remembrance Day.

  • Battle of the Somme

    The British Army endured the bloodiest day in its history, suffering 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead, on the first day.
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    Ninth Battle of the Isonzo.

    The Ninth Battle of the Isonzo was an Italian offensive against Austria-Hungary in the course World War I. Including a triumvirate of battles launched after the Italians' successful seizure of Gorizia in August 1916 to extend their bridgehead to the left of the town, it ended in further failure for the Italian Chief of Staff Luigi Cadorna.

  • Grigori Rasputin, Russia's éminence grise, is assassinated.

    Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin 1869 – 29 or 30 December was a Russian mystic and advisor to the Romanovs, the Russian Imperial family. Some people called Rasputin the "Mad Monk" allthough he was never officially connected to the Orthodox Church; others considered him a "strannik" (or pilgrim) wandering from cloister to cloister. He is even regarded as a starets believing him to be a psychic and faith healer.

  • Battle of Rafa

    The British drive the Ottomans out of Sinai.

  • World War 1 ends