Ww1

World War 1

By sonolmar000

  • Assassination of Archeduke Franz Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archeduke Franz Ferdinand
    One of Six Boshian Serb assassins were coornated by Danilo Llic. In Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir of the Austro-hungarian throne and his wife,Sophie. Their idea was to try and combine Austria-Hungry with the Greater Serbia. This attack led to the outbreak of World War 1 one month later.

  • WW1 begins & US reaction

    WW1 begins & US reaction
    At first Woodrow Wilson,the president of the US, had decided to stay neutral. Staying away from any interaction in and during WW1, unfortunatly after several outbreaks between the US and Germany the Americans were tierd but unwilling to enter the War. Finally, after many uncontrolable collisions the US enterd the war.

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    Sinking of the Lusitania
    Also known as the RMS Lusitania
    A Ship in which the Captain William Thomas Turner was in charge. There were 1,959 people abord and 159 were Americans. In may 1915 a German u-boat (u-20) bombed the Lusitania and killed 1,198 people. Enraged, America hanstened the US' entrance ino WWI.

  • Arabic Pledge

    Arabic Pledge
    The Germans vowed to stop sinking US ships without warning only if the Germans were allowed to search the ship. Also giving the "Victums" a 30 minute time period to leave or in other words "save themselfes".

  • Pancho Villa raids New Mexico

    Pancho Villa raids New Mexico
    While trying to distract the US from joining WW1, Pancho Villa crossed the boarder into Columbus, New Mexico and murdered 19 Americans in American soil. Afterwards Woodrow Wilson sent out American troops across the boarder to find Pancho Villa.

  • Sussex Pledge

    Sussex Pledge
    Promise/Agrement between the US and Germany during WWI. It inhanced the importance to not sink merchant vessels without warning of without assuring the passengers safety. Woodrow Willson tried to make shure Germany would obey this agrement.

  • "He Kept Us Out Of War"

    "He Kept Us Out Of War"
    President Woodrow Wilson's re-election campaign slogan. This quote meant that the US had not been pulled into WW1 (yet) under Wilson's command.

  • Resumption of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

    Resumption of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
    After fighting for many years Germany didn't care in other word between the combatants and the non-combatants. Admiral Von Holtzendorff proposed sinking Britain ships, forcing to sue for peace within 6 months, well before the Americans could act/enter the War.

  • Zimmermann Note

    Zimmermann Note
    Also known as the Zimmermann Telegram
    A diplomatic proposal for the German Empire to Meico to declare war against the United States of America. Writen by the German Forign Secretrary Arthur Zimmermann and recived by German Ambassador to Mexico.

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    In the First Revolution on Feb. 1917(or Mar.),members of the Imperial Parliment(or Duma) assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Gevernment. In the Second Revolution on Oct. 1917(or Nov.), the Bolshevik Party,led by Vladimir Lenin overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd.